Noted Chimp Researcher Goodall to Offer ‘Reasons for Hope’ Thursday Evening

PULLMAN, Wash. – “Reasons for Hope,” a free lecture by famed primatologist and environmentalist Jane Goodall, will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Thursday (March 8) in Washington State University’s Beasley Performing Arts Coliseum.

As the featured speaker for WSU’s annual Lane Family Lecture in Environmental Science, Goodall will address a variety of environmental crises and her reasons for hope that humans will find solutions to them.

Widely considered the world’s foremost authority on chimpanzees, Goodall has closely observed the animals’ behavior in the jungles of the Gombe Game Reserve in Africa over the past quarter century, living among the chimps in their own environment and gaining their confidence.

The annual lecture event, presented WSU Program in Environmental Science and Regional Planning, is endowed by a gift from the former publisher of “Sunset” magazine and numerous books and films, L.W. “Bill” Lane and his wife, Jean.

For more information, contact the Office of University Events at 877-978-3868 or by e-mail at wsuevent@wsu.edu.

Note to Editors: A news conference with Jane Goodall will begin at 10 a.m. March 8 in the Athletic Room of the WSU Alumni Center. Please refrain from using flash photography during the 7:30 p.m. lecture. Reserved seating for the lecture can be provided to reporters entering Beasley Coliseum through the building’s southeast tunnel entrance. Media wishing to establish an audio feed connection are asked to do so prior to 6:30 Thursday evening.

Dr. Jane Goodall pant-hoots with an orphan chimpanzee at the JGI Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary, Kenya. 2000 (Sanctuary chimpanzee. Jane Goodall does not handle wild chimpanzees.)