The Jane Goodall Institute Research Center was established at Duke in 2011 by Professor Anne Pusey, and disbanded when she retired in 2019. Its activities were centered around research on the chimpanzees of Gombe, and involved undergraduates, graduate students, post-docs and senior scientists. Central to the work was the archive of data on the Gombe chimpanzees. The archive consists of dawn-to-dusk observations containing the complete life histories of more than 200 chimpanzees at the Gombe National Park in Tanzania. These data were collected by British primatologist Jane Goodall and her team for more than 60 years, and the research still continues. The data comprise original handwritten and typed field notes and check sheets. Anne Pusey, who worked with Goodall at Gombe for more than 50 years, assembled the archive at the University of Minnesota and then moved it to Duke. Following Pusey’s retirement, the data archive moved to Arizona State University and is now managed by Dr. Ian Gilby, previously a senior scientist at Duke, and one of Pusey’s former graduate students. While the archive was at Duke, Duke libraries made high resolution scans of the data, which preserve it for posterity. A major activity of the archive curation is the computerization of systematically collected daily data to incorporate it with related material into a relational database for scientific analysis. Many undergraduates contributed to this work, and the research team at the Center produced more than 40 scientific publications, three PhD theses, and more than 10 undergraduate senior theses.