Des Moines, Iowa – April 17, 2011 – Great Ape Trust scientist, Dr. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, will present this week at the 2011 Ramon and Victoria Lim Medical Science Lectureship at the University of Iowa. Her lecture, “Humanity, Morality and Next of Kin – An Inquiry Into the nature of Primate Intelligence,” will be presented Wednesday, April 20 12:00 noon in the Damasio Conference Room at the Institute for Neurological Diseases at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.
The Ramon and Victoria Lim Medical Science Lectureship Fund was created in 2004 with a generous gift from Drs. Ramon and Victoria Lim. The fund supports the visits to Iowa City of eminent scientists working in neuroscience and internal medicine.
Savage-Rumbaugh is scientist with special standing at Great Ape Trust in Des Moines, Iowa. The first and only 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 2008, she retired from the administrative and laboratory duties in the Great Ape Trust bonobo facility to focus exclusively on research, writing and lecturing.
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.
