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Grantee Spotlight: Timothy Campbell
Grantee Spotlight Timothy Campbell, PhD candidate at Texas A&M, was awarded a Leakey Foundation Research Grant during our fall 2015 cycle for his project entitled “Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of Sterkfontein and Swartkrans using rodent postcrania.” Many theories of hominin behavioral and morphological evolution have focused on the environments occupied by early members of our lineage in… more »
Grantee Spotlight: Kaitlin Wellens
Grantee Spotlight The next grantee from our fall 2015 cycle is Kaitlin Wellens, PhD candidate from The George Washington University. She was awarded a grant for her project entitled “Maternal effects on juvenile chimpanzee social behavior and physiological stress.” Mothers can have a tremendous impact on various aspects of their offspring’s early development, including behavior, stress responses,… more »
Grantee Spotlight: Meagan Rubel
Grantee Spotlight Over the next few months we will be introducing you to our new fall 2015 grantees, and so we begin with Meagan Rubel.
Grantee Spotlight: Shannon McFarlin
Grantee Spotlight
Earlier this fall The Leakey Foundation’s board of trustees, staff and friends had the pleasure of visiting the Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology (CASHP) at The George Washington University. CASHP is a multidisciplinary research center dedicated to the study of human origins, and lucky for us, students and faculty of CASHP were kind enough to give us an extensive tour of their… more »
Grantee Spotlight: Amelia Villaseñor
Grantee Spotlight Amelia Villaseñor was awarded a Leakey Foundation research grant during our spring 2015 cycle for her project entitled “The biogeography and behavioral ecology of hominins in Pliocene Eastern Africa: A macroecological perspective.” The East Africa rift valley well known as the home to some to some of our most famous hominin ancestors: from Lucy to the Nutcracker man to the Turkana boy.… more »
Grantee Spotlight: Iulia Badescu
Grantee Spotlight Iulia Badescu Iulia Badescu is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto. She was awarded a Leakey Foundation research grant during our 2015 spring cycle for her project entitled “Investigating the infant nutritional development of wild chimpanzees.” I am investigating the infant nutritional development of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) at Ngogo, Kibale National… more »
Grantee Spotlight: Davide Faggionato
Grantee Spotlight Davide Faggionato Davide Faggionato was awarded a Leakey Foundation research grant during our spring 2015 cycle for his project entitled “Molecular and functional analysis of vision in three hominin species.” Hominin paleogenomics, the study of genomes retrieved from fossil hominin remains, has revolutionized the way we study human evolution. For the first time, we can sample DNA from… more »
Grantee Spotlight: Ashley Hammond
Grantee Spotlight Ashley Hammond of the George Washington University was awarded a Leakey Foundation research grant during our spring 2015 cycle for her project entitled “Reconstructing phenotypic change of the pelvis in apes and humans.” Ashley Hammond
I study how the skeletal anatomy of primates relates to locomotion. The hipbone differs dramatically among living primates adapted for different locomotion, and… more »
Grantee Spotlight: Rebecca Miller
Grantee Spotlight Rebecca Miller is a researcher at the University of Liege. She was awarded a Leakey Foundation research grant during our spring 2015 cycle for her project entitled “The Middle-Upper Paleolithic transition at Trou Al’Wesse (Belgium).” Her co-investigators are John Stewart and Keith Wilkinson. Rebecca Miller
Trou Al’Wesse (literally ‘cave of the wasp) is a narrow cave… more »
Grantee Spotlight: Tyler Faith
Grantee Spotlight Tyler Faith is a researcher from the University of Queensland in Australia. He was awarded a Leakey Foundation research grant during our spring 2015 cycle for his project entitled "Middle Stone Age of the Gwasi and Uyoma Peninsulas, Kenya."
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