Grantee Spotlight: Kaitlin Wellens
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.”
Kaitlin Wellens
Mothers can have a tremendous impact on various aspects of their offspring’s early development, including behavior, stress responses, cognition, and even<br>
Grantee Spotlight: Meagan Rubel
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
Shannon McFarlin
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<br>
Grantee Spotlight: Amelia Villaseñor
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.”
Villaseñor (L) sorting through sediment to find microfauna
The East Africa rift valley well known as the home to some to some of our most famous hominin ancestors:<br>
Grantee Spotlight: Iulia Badescu
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 Park, Uganda. Infant nutritional development is<br>