Jane Goodall, one of the world's most distinguished primatologists, returns to Cornell University for three days as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large and will deliver a free public lecture titled "Reason for Hope," Friday, Sept. 15, at 7:30 p.m. in Bailey Hall.

Tickets are required and will be available beginning at 9 a.m. Monday, Sept. 11, at the Willard Straight Hall ticket desk, with a limit of two per person. The Jane Goodall Institute will be selling books, posters, T-shirts and other items in the lobby of Bailey Hall at the lecture. Goodall will respond to all requests for inscriptions at the end of the presentation.

Goodall is scientific director of the Gombe Wildlife Research Institute in Tanzania. She began her study of primates in 1960 under the guidance of Dr. Louis Leakey, world-famous paleontologist. Goodall's research at Gombe is the longest continuous field study of animals ever undertaken and has changed significantly our views on the life and behavior of chimpanzees. Goodall was the first to show that chimpanzees fashioned and used tools for their own purpose and that chimps are carnivorous. In recent years, she increasingly has focused her work on improved living conditions for captive primates, conservation and educating young people about environmental issues through her "Roots and Shoots" program.

Goodall's lecture is the first in an outstanding series of fall 2000 visits and free public lectures from A.D. White Professors-at-Large at Cornell. In addition, the Cornell Program for Professors-at-Large has announced the appointments of environmental artist Andy Goldsworthy and physician/writer Dr. Oliver Sacks as professors-at-large, both of whom will visit Cornell next year.

Upcoming visits by professors-at-large this semester:

• Novelist and Nobel laureate Toni Morrison will return Oct. 2-6 and will deliver a lecture (title to be announced) Tuesday, Oct. 3, at 7:30 p.m. in the David L. Call Alumni Auditorium of Kennedy Hall.
• Actor/comedian John Cleese will attend a screening and discuss Monty Python's "Life of Brian," Friday, Oct. 13, at 7:30 p.m. in Bailey Hall.
• Architect and scholar William A. McDonough, one of Time magazine's "Heroes for the Planet," returns to deliver a lecture (title to be announced) Tuesday, Oct. 24, at 4:30 p.m. in Kaufmann Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall.
• Mieke Bal, founding director of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, Theory and Interpretation, will return to Cornell in November. No date has been set for Bal's lecture.

The Program for Professors-at-Large began in 1965 to bring distinguished scholars to the Cornell campus for formal and informal exchanges with faculty and students. Up to 20 professors-at-large are named at Cornell at any one time. They make periodic visits to campus over six-year terms and are considered full members of the Cornell faculty.