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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 Honors Colloquium<\/a>. The lecture is also part of her tour associated with the Jane Goodall Institute<\/a>\u2019s 40th anniversary celebration.<\/p>\n

The fall lecture series, \u201cOrigins: Life, the Universe and Everything,\u201d will examine some of the following questions: \u201cWhere did we come from? How did the universe begin? How did intelligent, rational beings arise? And, from such humble beginnings, how did we develop a mind that can ask these big questions?\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u2019s premier public lecture series. All talks are free and open to the public. The event will be live streamed online.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Goodall\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cDr. Goodall comes quickly to mind when we think of scientists and women in science. Her tremendous work has inspired countless members of our species to dig in and learn more about our place in nature, including many 溏心vlog免费B站 students, staff, faculty and me,\u201d said Holly Dunsworth<\/a>, associate professor of anthropology and chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery individual matters,\u201d she said, \u201cEvery individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her life and work are the subject of numerous television documentaries, as well as the 2002 film, Jane Goodall\u2019s Wild Chimpanzees,<\/em> and the 2010 documentary, Jane\u2019s Journey. <\/em>Discovery Channel\u2019s Animal Planet has produced a number of features on Goodall, including Jane Goodall\u2019s Return to Gombe<\/em>, Jane Goodall\u2019s State of the Great Apes,<\/em> When Animals Talk<\/em>, Jane Goodall\u2019s<\/em> Heroes<\/em> and Almost Human.<\/em><\/p>\n

She is the recipient of the Medal of Tanzania, the National Geographic Society\u2019s Hubbard Medal, Japan\u2019s 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\u2019s highest award, the Legion of Honor.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are very fortunate to have secured Jane Goodall as a speaker in our fall colloquium on \u2018Origins\u2019,\u201d said coordinator Joel Chandlee<\/a>, professor of cell and molecular biology. \u201cShe can provide valuable insights from a lifelong perspective into the relationship between humans and the natural world and the relatedness and interconnectedness of all life on the planet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joining Chandlee and Dunsworth as colloquium coordinators are: Dawn Cardace<\/a>, associate professor of geosciences; Albert Kausch<\/a>, professor of cell and molecular biology and director of the Plant Biotechnology Laboratory; and Alycia Mosley Austin<\/a>, assistant dean for graduate recruitment and diversity initiatives and associate director for the Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program.<\/p>\n

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