Opinion ID: 816113
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Heading: The Setting and People

Text: The Medical Sciences Campus is an institutional unit of the University. Within the Medical Sciences Campus is the Caribbean Primate Research Center (CPRC), a research, training, and education center for the study of non-human primates. The CPRC is made up of four integrated facilities: the Cayo Santiago Field Station (Cayo Santiago), the Sabana Seca Field Station, the Laboratory of Virology and Genetics, and the Laboratory of Primate Morphology and Genetics. Most relevant here is Cayo Santiago, a -2- forty-acre island located less than a mile off the coast of Puerto Rico. There hundreds of monkeys live in semi-natural conditions for the purpose of conducting behavioral and non-invasive biomedical research. During the time frame important to us, Kraiselburd (with the University in different capacities since 1977) was the Principal Investigator and Director of the CPRC, as well as a Professor of the Medical Sciences Campus. His role with the CPRC meant that he oversaw and supervised the operation of its four integrated facilities. Gerald (hired in 2001) had a dual role as Scientist in Charge of Cayo Santiago and as an Assistant Professor at the Medical Sciences Campus, a tenure track position which contemplated her advancement to Associate Professor. As Scientist in Charge, Gerald's duties included running the daily operation of Cayo Santiago, maintaining a computerized database of the monkey population, managing personnel, participating in animal trapping, conducting research, preparing reports and grant proposals, and assisting visiting scientists. Gerald's home base of operation was Punta Santiago, the mainland village closest to Cayo Santiago. Her supervisor was Kraiselburd.