Bryant and Diane Hichwa will present a free public lecture and slide show on Monday, May 14 at 4:10 p.m. in Darwin 103 on the Sonoma State University campus. "Rwanda and Kenya — the Great Migration and Gorillas, too" includes slides of wildlife the couple made on their African trip in the summer of 2005.
Bryant Hichwa is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Sonoma State University and a 2005 recipient of the campus teaching award; Diane Hichwa volunteers with several environmental organizations in Sonoma County. Both have been active in several local conservation organizations.
In the summer, Diane and Bryant Hichwa toured seven national parks and
reserves in East Africa. The trip started with a sobering visit to the
Genocide Memorial in Kigali, Rwanda, followed by an exhilarating hike to observe two families of mountain gorillas in the misty Virunga Mountains.
In Kenya, the route was planned to visit varying habitats of plains, mountains and rainforest in order to see everything from antelope to zebras, bee eaters to ostriches - plus the Great Migration of zebras and wildebeests crossing the Mara River as they move from the Serengeti into the Mara Triangle of Kenya.
