KINGSTON, R.I. — July 18, 2017 — Renowned animal behavior expert, conservationist and United Nations Messenger of Peace Jane Goodall will speak at the 溏心vlog免费B站 as part of its 2017 fall . The lecture is also part of her tour associated with the 鈥檚 40th anniversary celebration.
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Goodall will speak Sept. 19 at 7 p.m. at The Ryan Center, 1 Lincoln Almond Plaza, Kingston. The Honors Colloquium, now in its 54th year, is the University鈥檚 premier public lecture series. All talks are free and open to the public.
Goodall鈥檚 discovery that chimpanzees make and use tools revolutionized the world of primatology and redefined the relationship between humans and animals. At the invitation of famed anthropologist and paleontologist Louis Leakey, she began her research in 1960 at what was then called the Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve in Tanzania.
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In 1977, Goodall established the Jane Goodall Institute, which continues the work of the Gombe Stream Research Center and is a global leader in the effort to protect chimpanzees and their habitats. It is widely recognized for building on Goodall鈥檚 groundbreaking, community-centered approach to conservation and development programs in Africa and for its Roots & Shoots program, the global environmental and humanitarian youth initiative she founded in 1991 with a group of Tanzanian students. The youth program connects more than 15,000 young people in nearly 100 countries, equipping them to make the world a better place for people, animals and the environment.
Today, Goodall travels an average of 300 days per year, speaking about the threats facing chimpanzees, other environmental crises and her reasons for hope. In her speeches and books she emphasizes the interconnectedness of all living things and the collective power of individual action, urging her audiences to recognize their personal responsibility and ability to effect change.
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Her life and work are the subject of numerous television documentaries, as well as the 2002 film, Jane Goodall鈥檚 Wild Chimpanzees, and the 2010 documentary, Jane鈥檚 Journey. Discovery Channel鈥檚 Animal Planet has produced a number of features on Goodall, including Jane Goodall鈥檚 Return to Gombe, Jane Goodall鈥檚 State of the Great Apes, When Animals Talk, Jane Goodall鈥檚 Heroes and Almost Human.
She is the recipient of the Medal of Tanzania, the National Geographic Society鈥檚 Hubbard Medal, Japan鈥檚 Kyoto Prize, the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science, the UNESCO 60th Anniversary Medal and the Gandhi/King Award for Nonviolence. In 2004 during a ceremony at Buckingham Palace, she became Dame Commander of the British Empire. In 2006, she received France鈥檚 highest award, the Legion of Honor.
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Joining Chandlee and Dunsworth as colloquium coordinators are: , associate professor of geosciences; , professor of cell and molecular biology and director of the Plant Biotechnology Laboratory; and , assistant dean for graduate recruitment and diversity initiatives and associate director for the Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program.
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