Photo by Michael Neugebauer Jane Goodall sits with Freud, a chimpanzee who lives in the Gombe National Park on the eastern shores of Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania. British born Goodall, who became world famous for her work with chimps, has also been a United Nations Messenger for Peace for 10 years. In 1977 she founded the Jane Goodall Institute, which has an office in Vienna, Va., and works to protect all living things.

Biology major Spencer Brodsky from Potomac will be among the more than 1,000 students and academic staff expected to hear Jane Goodall speak Saturday at the University of Maryland in College Park.

A junior, Brodsky hopes to personally ask Goodall what research scientists can do through their work to help the world solve its problems, considering recent cuts to research budgets.

First of all, dont lose hope, says Goodall, who will speak at 1:30 p.m. at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center on campus.

Afterwards, Goodall will be available to sign some of the many books she has written that will be available for sale.

The talk, called Making a Difference, is already fully reserved, but a standby line will begin forming at 1 p.m. to fill any empty seats that become available.

Goodalls talk will also be streamed live online with links posted on the University of Maryland website (www.umd.edu or http://www.bsos.umd.edu) just prior to the talk.

Additionally, Discovery Communications, headquartered in Silver Spring, will premiere a two-hour documentary about Goodall called Janes Journey on Animal Planet at 9 p.m. tonight.

Goodall, 78, who lives in England but travels about 300 days a year, is currently visiting universities and other venues around the United States to update people about her work with chimpanzees in Tanzania in the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s as part of work on human evolution.

Through persistent observation, she documented their complex social relationships and use of sticks to extract termites for food, challenging previous beliefs that humans were the worlds only toolmakers.

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