Dr. Jane Goodall To Deliver The 2008 Wallace Stegner Lecture "Reason For Hope", 4/28, Montana State University, Bozeman
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Dr. Jane Goodall will deliver the 2008 Wallace Stegner Lecture at MSU at 6 p.m. Monday, April 28, at the Brick Breeden Fieldhouse at Montana State University. There is no admission fee for the lecture, but seating is limited. Photo courtesy of the Jane Goodall Institute.
Dr. Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, environmentalist and humanitarian, will deliver a "Reason for Hope" at 6 p.m. Monday, April 28, at the Brick Breeden Fieldhouse at Montana State University.
There is no admission charge to Goodall's MSU Wallace Stegner Lecture, but seating is limited. Doors will open at 4:30 p.m. and tickets will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis.
Goodall, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and a United Nations Messenger of Peace, began her landmark study of chimpanzees in Tanzania in June 1960 under the mentorship of anthropologist and paleontologist Dr. Louis Leakey. Her work at what was then called the Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve became the foundation of primatological research and redefined the relationship between humans and animals. In 1977, Goodall established the Jane Goodall Institute, which continues the Gombe research and is a global leader in the effort to protect chimpanzees and their habitats. The institute also is widely recognized for establishing innovative, community-centered conservation and development programs in Africa, and the Roots & Shoots education program, which has 8,000 groups in 96 countries.
Goodall travels an average of 300 days per year, speaking about the threats facing chimpanzees, other environmental crises, and her reasons for hope that humankind will solve the problems it has imposed on the Earth. She continually urges her audiences to recognize their personal responsibility and ability to effect change through consumer action, lifestyle change and activism.
Goodall's lecture is co-sponsored by MSU's Department of History and Philosophy, the Wallace Stegner Endowed Chair in Western Studies currently held by writer David Quammen, the College of Letters and Science, and the President's Office, as well as the Tributary Fund, a non-profit organization based in Bozeman.
Sarah Alexander (406) 994-7791, alexander@montana.edu 
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