January 2010
A Visit to the Jane Goodall Research Center
This past October, as part of Jane's autumn 2009 United States lecture tour, she visited the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and the Jane Goodall Research Center on campus. The Center was established in 1991 when Jane was appointed as USC's Distinguished Emeritus Professor in Anthropology and Occupational Science and is currently led by Professor Craig Stanford, who serves as co-director of the Center.
The Center spearheads projects in both archival and field research. Many of Jane's original fieldnotes from her work at the Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania are housed here. The Southern California office for Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots program has also found a home on USC's campus.
Although Jane is on a perpetual global speaking tour, traveling over 300 days per year worldwide, she still visits the Center every other year to personally check on its progress. While visiting, Jane gave a public lecture to over 1,000 USC students and local Roots & Shoots members.
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| Jane and Mr. H made a stop at USC's Jane Goodall Research Center before speaking in front of 1,000 students on campus. |
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| Jane poses with staff members of the Jane Goodall Research Center. |
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| Professor Craig Stanford (far left) joins Jane and other supporters at the University of Southern California. |
Photos by Mary Lewis
The Jane Photo of the Week
With Jane on a perpetual world speaking tour and traveling to every corner of the globe, you can imagine what a variety of "Jane in action" shots we have ! To showcase some appealing images, every week we will be featuring one special photo of Jane. The new feature will be called "The Jane Photo of the Week."
This week's selection is Jane in a hotel room in New York City signing dozens and dozens of copies of her recently published book, Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species are Being Rescued from the Brink. The book features inspiring success stories of animals and the conservationists working to protect them. Here Jane autographs books for each person she wrote about in the book. If you're interested in buying a copy, you can get one in the JGI store.
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Photo by Christin Jones
Too "Chimpanzee-Specific"?
Jane's message really travels. In the Jane Goodall Institute offices we receive emails from people around the world who are inspired by Jane's work. A few months ago, we received an original cartoon by an artist in India named Harsha Nagaraju. Harsha, a Jane fan, was motivated to draw the cartoon after seeing several TV shows about Jane. He wanted to point out that Jane's research is about chimpanzees, while having a little fun too!
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| This cartoon was created by Harsha Nagaraju, an animation film designer from India. Jane loved the cartoon when she saw it. |
Have you created artworks inspired by Jane? Be sure to email them to John in the Office of the Founder-Global. jtrybus@janegoodall.org and you may see them featured on the Where in the World is Dr. Jane? blog!
Behind the Scenes at The Daily Show
Jane is no stranger to television interviews. Over her 50 years of work, she has appeared on a variety of of well-known, traditional news programs. But this past November, Jane let her hair down -- so to speak -- to reach a new audience by appearing on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, the popular news satire program on Comedy Central.
The interview started out with a round of laughs as Jane greeted Jon in typical chimpanzee fashion. She also spoke about her recent book Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species are Being Rescued from the Brink. Make sure to visit The Daily Show's website if you missed the interview.
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| The two really hit it off and had great chemistry on air! | Jane meets Jon Stewart backstage at The Daily Show in New York City. |
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| Yum! Jon Stewart really enjoyed these vegan cookies baked by Shawn Sweeney of Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots. |
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| Outside the studio, Jane visited with a few local members of Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots who attended the show's taping. To Jane's right is Shawn Sweeney, Roots & Shoots program coordinator for university programs. |
Photos by Claire Jones
Jane Attends JGI Global Meeting
The Jane Goodall Institute is a global organization, with operations in more than 20 countries worldwide. At the end of November, Jane traveled to Belgium to join the leaders of international JGIs to discuss priorities for the year ahead.
Institute heads from France to Hong Kong and many places in between had a very productive discussion. Of particular importance was a brainstorming session about "Gombe 50" -- the half-century anniversary of Jane's first year at Gombe in 1960 -- and the spread of Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots youth service program, which is now in more than 114 countries.
The meeting was held on the peaceful grounds of the Chateau de Dalhem, which generously donated meeting space in its hostel. JGI-Netherlands and JGI-Belgium hosted the global meeting.
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| Representatives from JGIs around the globe met with Jane in November for a special meeting. What a great group picture! |
