February 7, 2011: Primatologist and conservationist, Dr. Jane Goodall, a favorite
figure of wildlife lovers of all ages, delivered the keynote address to an audience of
1200 at a packed New York University auditorium. Dr. Jane reached out with a
chimpanzee's long distance call to the hundreds of middle and high school kids
layered in the upper reaches of the auditorium.
figure of wildlife lovers of all ages, delivered the keynote address to an audience of
1200 at a packed New York University auditorium. Dr. Jane reached out with a
chimpanzee's long distance call to the hundreds of middle and high school kids
layered in the upper reaches of the auditorium.
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Jane Goodall keynotes second annual Sci Ed Innovators
Expo & Symposium sponsored by JBF and NYU
Expo & Symposium sponsored by JBF and NYU
JBF co-founder and Jhumki's mother, Radha Basu,
announced a long term partnership with New
Education Framework, and the publication of
Education Framework, and the publication of
textbook: Democratic Science Teaching: Building
Expertise to Empower Low-Income Minority Youth in
Science, by Jhumki Basu, Angela Calabrese Barton
and Edna Tan.
NYU President John Sexton and Mary Brabeck, Dean
of NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education,
and Human Development, addressed the
Symposium, while Cathie Black, Chancellor of NYC
Department of Education visited the Expo.
announced a long term partnership with New
Education Framework, and the publication of
Education Framework, and the publication of
textbook: Democratic Science Teaching: Building
Expertise to Empower Low-Income Minority Youth in
Science, by Jhumki Basu, Angela Calabrese Barton
and Edna Tan.
NYU President John Sexton and Mary Brabeck, Dean
of NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education,
and Human Development, addressed the
Symposium, while Cathie Black, Chancellor of NYC
Department of Education visited the Expo.
Prior to Jane's lecture, the Sci Ed Science Expo was inaugurated
by Shael Polakow-Suransky, Chief Academic Officer of the New
York Department of Education. The Expo showcased a year's work
of 20 JBF-sponsored Sci Ed Fellows, all science teachers who
presented science projects with their students. The Expo hall was
a seething mass of 800 excited students, teachers, researchers,
parents and visitors. The high point for each booth was a visit by
Jane Goodall who listened intently to the team's description of
their projects and left them happy beyond measure.
by Shael Polakow-Suransky, Chief Academic Officer of the New
York Department of Education. The Expo showcased a year's work
of 20 JBF-sponsored Sci Ed Fellows, all science teachers who
presented science projects with their students. The Expo hall was
a seething mass of 800 excited students, teachers, researchers,
parents and visitors. The high point for each booth was a visit by
Jane Goodall who listened intently to the team's description of
their projects and left them happy beyond measure.
Jane Goodall told young people in her audience that one of
her attractions to Africa was the comic book hero, Tarzan, and
that she would have made a better mate for Tarzan than that
"other" Jane! She spoke of her own mother's support while
she tried to enter the male-dominated scientific community
without an advanced degree. Through help of famous
her attractions to Africa was the comic book hero, Tarzan, and
that she would have made a better mate for Tarzan than that
"other" Jane! She spoke of her own mother's support while
she tried to enter the male-dominated scientific community
without an advanced degree. Through help of famous
paleontologist, Louis Leakey, Jane was later admitted to the PhD program in Ethology at Cambridge University.
She mentioned the obstacles she had faced in her long career and how hope for a better future for wildlife fuelled
her drive to build conservation programs that are now benchmarks. She described the work of the nonprofit she
founded, Roots & Shoots, in involving young people in projects to save their environment. Roots & Shoots started
in Tanzania and is now active in 128 countries.
She mentioned the obstacles she had faced in her long career and how hope for a better future for wildlife fuelled
her drive to build conservation programs that are now benchmarks. She described the work of the nonprofit she
founded, Roots & Shoots, in involving young people in projects to save their environment. Roots & Shoots started
in Tanzania and is now active in 128 countries.
Jane acknowledged the contribution of Dr. Jhumki Basu to making science exciting to underprivileged youth
thereby empowering them to improve their own lives and of the community.
"Jhumki and I would have got on well together," she said.
thereby empowering them to improve their own lives and of the community.
"Jhumki and I would have got on well together," she said.
