The Jane Goodall Institute Research Center at Duke University

The Jane Goodall Institute Research Center is directed by Dr. Anne Pusey, a James B. Duke Professor and Chair of the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke University.

Dr. Pusey, who earned a B.S. in zoology from Oxford University and Ph.D. in behavioral biology from Stanford University, worked in Gombe under Dr. Goodall's direction in the 1970s. During the 1980s, as Goodall's focus shifted from analysis of data to conservation and education, Pusey became more involved in research and data analysis. At the time the data, nearly 40 years of Goodall's journals, photos, and slides, was stored on open shelves in Goodall's home in Dar es Salaam. In 1995, Goodall and Pusey moved the records to the University of Minnesota, for research and safekeeping. There, Dr. Pusey established the Jane Goodall Institute’s Center for Primate Studies, and together with a team of computer scientists and behavioral ecologists began the enormous task of digitizing and organizing the data. In 2010, Dr. Pusey moved with the archive to Duke University.

1. Preserve, organize, and digitize all the paper data (about 350,000 pages)
2. Maintain a relational database of behavioral, spatial, demographic and ecological data.
3. Analyze this data to advance knowledge about the complex lives of chimpanzees.
4. Collect and digitize slides, black and white photographs, and video of the Gombe chimpanzees.

1. Female dispersal and settlement patterns
2. Male cooperation and social relationships
3. Hunting and inter-group aggression
4. Feeding ecology and space use
5. Correlates of maternal stress
6. Disease monitoring