Grantee Spotlight

04.05.17

Grantee Spotlight: Meike Zemihn

Grantee Spotlight
Meike Zemihn was awarded a Leakey Foundation Research Grant during our fall 2016 cycle for her project entitled "Tracing the origins of language: Syntax in common marmosets (Brazil)."
03.21.17

Grantee Spotlight: Ron Shimelmitz

Grantee Spotlight
Ron Shimelmitz is a research fellow at the Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa. He was awarded a Leakey Foundation research grant during our summer 2016 cycle for his project entitled "New excavations at Skhul Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel."
03.14.17

Grantee Spotlight: Brian Schilder

Grantee Spotlight
Brian Schilder is a PhD candidate from George Washington University. He was awarded a Leakey Foundation Research Grant during our fall 2016 cycle for his project entitled "The evolution of the hippocampus and adult neurogenesis: Novel insights into the origins of human memory."
03.07.17

Grantee Spotlight: Liza Moscovice

Grantee Spotlight
Liza Moscovice was awarded a Leakey Foundation Research Grant during our fall 2016 cycle for her project entitled "Explaining patterns of within and between-group cooperation among LuiKotale bonobos."
02.28.17

Grantee Spotlight: Thierry Smith

Grantee Spotlight
Thierry Smith is a research team leader at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels, Belgium. He was awarded a Leakey Foundation research grant during our fall 2016 cycle for his project entitled “Diversity and relationships of earliest Euprimates from Tadkeshwar Mine, India.”