Grants
On April 25th The Leakey Foundation’s Board of Trustees convened for our Spring Granting Session. The Board unanimously approved the twenty-two research grants our Scientific Executive Committee presented as recommended for funding.
Here are a few numbers from our Spring 2015 Granting Cycle:
There were 101 research grant applications: 37% were categorized as behavioral, 63% were paleoanthropology. Over 460 reviews were submitted to our grants department during this cycle.
We would like to congratulate all of our new grantees, and we look forward to sharing news and information about them and their research along the way!
Here are The Leakey Foundation’s Spring 2015 Grantees:
Iulia Badescu, University of Toronto: Investigating the infant nutritional development of wild chimpanzees
Stephanie Bogart, University of Southern California: Savanna chimpanzee ecology at MARS (Mount Assirik Research Site)
Marina Davila-Ross, University of Portsmouth: Systematically testing facial thermal imaging as a most sensitive and reliable novel technology to directly compare subtle emotion changes in apes and humans
Harold Dibble, University of Pennsylvania: New excavations at La Ferrassie (Dordogne, France): The final season
Kelsey Ellis, University of Texas at Austin: Grouping dynamics of woolly monkeys (Lagothrix poeppigii) in Amazonian Ecuador
Davide Faggionato, Iowa State University: Molecular and functional analysis of vision in three hominin species
Tyler Faith, University of Queensland: Middle Stone Age of the Gwasi and Uyoma Peninsulas, Kenya
Halszka Glowacka, Arizona State University: Biomechanical constraints on molar emergence in primates
Avi Gopher, Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University: Continued excavation in Middle Pleistocene Qesem Cave, Israel
Ashley Hammond, Stony Brook University: Reconstructing phenotypic change of the pelvis in apes and humans
John Hoffecker, University of Colorado at Boulder: The geochronology of the earliest Upper Paleolithic in Eastern Europe
Karline Janmaat, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology: The ecological intelligence of human rainforest foragers
Carolina Mallol, Universidad de La Laguna: Neandertal fire technology
Rebecca Miller, University of Liege: The Middle-Upper Paleolithic transition at Trou Al’Wesse (Belgium)
Thierra Nalley, California Academy of Sciences: Ontogeny of the thoracolumbar transition in extant hominoids and Australopithecus
Marco Peresani, University of Ferrara: Rediscovering the Uluzzian in Italy
Susan Perry, University of California, Los Angeles: Life histories of wild capuchins in Lomas Barbudal, Costa Rica
Gabrielle A. Russo, Stony Brook University: Elucidating the evolutionary pathways of hominin basicranial morphology using a formal phylogenetic comparative primate approach
Christopher Stevenson, Virginia Commonwealth University: Hydration dating of Late Pleistocene archaeological sites in eastern Africa
Paola Villa, University of Colorado Museum: Uluzzian technology in Central Italy: From neandertals to modern humans
Amelia Villaseñor, George Washington University: The biogeography and behavioral ecology of hominins in Pliocene Eastern Africa: A macroecological perspective
Nicolas Zwyns, University of California, Davis: Human response to the Late Pleistocene climate change in Northern Mongolia: The Upper Paleolithic site of Tolbor 16
