Announcing the spring 2025 Francis H. Brown African Scholars
Meet the spring 2025 Francis H. Brown African Scholars. This prestigious award recognizes outstanding East African scientists studying earth sciences or botany relevant to human origins.
Announcing the 2025 Baldwin Fellows
Meet the 2025 Baldwin Fellows! This year, 14 scholars from 11 countries have received fellowships, empowering them to become future leaders.
Introducing the spring 2025 Leakey Foundation grantees
Meet the spring 2025 Leakey Foundation grantees. Their innovative research will shed new light on human origins, evolution, and behavior.
Leakey Foundation grantees elected to National Academy of Sciences
Three Leakey Foundation grantees were inducted into the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. on April 25, 2025. Membership in the Academy is a widely accepted mark of excellence in science and is one of the highest honors that a scientist can receive.
Well-timed pebbles make big ripples
Leakey Foundation grantee Nina Jablonski is one of the "small but mighty population of people whose careers have been ignited and sustained by Leakey Foundation support, and whose research, in turn, has shed light on previously opaque mysteries of human and primate evolution."