Which U.S. university housed the JGI Center for Primate Studies in the mid-1990s?

The JGI Center for Primate Studies was housed at the University of Minnesota in the mid-1990s.

The center was created as Jane Goodall’s research archive grew beyond what could conveniently be stored at her home in Dar es Salaam. The material included handwritten field notes, photographs, and decades of observations from the Gombe chimpanzee project. Minnesota provided an academic setting in which the archive could be preserved, organised, digitised, and studied.

The collection was more than a historical record. It supported continuing research into chimpanzee behaviour, social relationships, ecology, and conservation. By 2011, the original Jane Goodall archives had been digitised and incorporated into an online database, making the long-running Gombe study more accessible to researchers.

The university can be confused with Duke because the archive was later associated with a planned move there. That later development does not change the mid-1990s answer: the JGI Center for Primate Studies was at the University of Minnesota.