From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2005:

MADISON–The Primate Freedom Project and Alliance for Animals
on July 4, 2005 announced plans to create a National Primate
Research Exhibition Hall in a complex of dilapidated buildings
presently used as a bicycle warehouse, located between the Wisconsin
National Primate Research Center and the Harry H. Harlow Primate
Psychology Building.
Owned by the University of Wiscon-sin, the two primate labs
have housed some of the most infamous experiments ever.
Harlow from 1930 to 1970 drove generations of baby macaques
mad there, plunging them into stainless steel “pits of despair,”
subjecting them to deliberately cruel robotic “mothers,” and
allowing mothers driven insane by his experiments to abuse and kill
them.
Primate Freedom founder Rick Bogle likened the proposed
National Primate Research Center to “having the Holocaust Memorial at
the gates of Auschwitz in 1944.” He had a nine-month purchase option
on the site, he said, which he hoped would be time enough to raise
the $675,000 purchase price of the warehouse site, assessed at only
$150,000 for tax purposes.
But there was a catch.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2005:

NORFOLK–PETA research and investigations chief Mary Beth
Sweetland told news media on May 17, 2005 that undercover
investigator Lisa Leitten between April 26, 2004 and March 11, 2005
“secretly videotaped repeated violations of the federal Animal
Welfare Act,” at a Covance Research Products laboratory in Vienna,
Virginia.
Alleged violations, Sweetland said, included “punching,
choking, and taunting injured monkeys; recycling sick monkeys into
new experiments; failing to administer veterinary care to severely
wounded monkeys; failing to euthanize monkeys who were in extreme
distress; and failing to properly oversee lab workers,” who
allegedly “tore monkeys from their cages and violently shoved them
into restraint tubes.”
Sweetland said Leitten’s undercover video also showed Covance
staff “performing painful and stressful procedures in full view of
other animals, monkeys with chronic rectal prolapses resulting from
constant stress and diarrhea,” monkeys suffering from “daily bloody
noses” as result of harsh intubation, and “monkey self-mutilation
resulting from failure to provide psychological enrichment and
socialization.”

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2005:

RENO–Substantiating complaints filed by University of Nevada
at Reno associate professor Hussein S. Hussein, the USDA Animal &
Plant Health Inspection Service in May 2005 cited the university for
46 violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act allegedly committed
between May 25, 2004 and March 21, 2005.
The university agreed to pay fines totaling $11,400 to avoid
going to court.
“The violations included repeatedly leaving 10 research pigs
without adequate water between May and September and improperly
housing the same pigs, frequent poor sanitation of animal care
facilities, lack of veterinary care, improper oversight of research
activities, failing to investigate complaints of animal neglect and
poor record keeping, and failing to properly train university farm
employees,” wrote Frank X. Mullen Jr. of the Reno Gazette-Journal.
Mullen made the case public in a December 2004 three-part
investigative series, after the university pursued disciplinary
action against Hussein. A faculty panel in April 2005 held that the
charges against Hussein were without merit.

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2005:

RENO–University of Nevada at Reno president John Lilley on
April 29 informed animal nutrition professor Hussein S. Hussein by
letter that Lilley has accepted the recommendations of a hearing
officer and three-member university panel that misconduct charges
filed against Hussein should be dropped, university spokesperson
Jane Tors announced on May 2.
“After a seven-hour evidentiary hearing on April 19, the
panel and former Carson City District Judge Michael E. Fondi found
the charges groundless,” reported Scott Sonner of Associated Press.
“Lilley said in the April 29 letter to Hussein that he was
accepting their recommendations even though he still believes Hussein
acted inappropriately” in seeking veterinary help during May and June
2004 for 10 boars that he found inexplicably placed in the same barn
as his own research animals,” said Sonner.
Hussein testified that the boars “were copiously foaming at
the mouth, including one who broke out of a pen and chased two of
his graduate students, and he thought they might be rabid or have
other diseases,” wrote Frank X. Mullen Jr. of the Reno
Gazette-Journal.

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