Des Moines, Iowa - October 31, 2011 - Great Ape Trust scientist, Dr. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh will present this week at the 2011 J. James Woods Lecture Series at Butler University in Indianapolis, Ind. Her lecture, Bonobos, Language and Culture will be presented on Wednesday, November 2, 2011, 7:30 p.m. in the Reilly Room of Atherton Union. The event is free and open to the public.
The Woods Lecture Series was established by a generous gift from the estate of J. James Woods. The goal of the Woods bequest is to bring prominent mathematicians and scientists to Butler University to speak on theories at the frontier of their disciplines, as well as on related technologies and other issues of public concern.
Savage-Rumbaugh is director of scientific research programs at Great Ape Trust in Des Moines, Iowa. The first scientist to conduct language research with bonobos, Savage-Rumbaugh joined Great Ape Trust in 2005 following a 30-year association with Georgia State University's Language Research Center (LRC). In April 2011, she was recognized as one of TIME magazine's100 Most Influential People In the World.
Background Information
Great Ape Trust is a scientific research facility in Des Moines, Iowa, dedicated to understanding the origins and future of culture, language, tools and intelligence, and to the preservation of endangered great apes in their natural habitats. Announced in 2002 and receiving its first ape residents in 2004, Great Ape Trust is home to a colony of seven bonobos involved in noninvasive interdisciplinary studies of their cognitive and communicative capabilities. To learn more about Great Ape Trust, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, go to GreatApeTrust.org, BonoboHope.org, www.facebook.com/GreatApeTrust or www.twitter.com/GreatApeTrust.
