Curious about The Leakey Foundation’s funded research projects and scholarship recipients? Search our grants database to learn more about the human origins research, scholarships, and emergency grants made possible by our generous supporters.
Although we have been awarding grants since 1968, this searchable database only goes back to 2012, giving you more than a decade of information. You can search by program, recipient PhD status, and keywords such as topics, species, and countries. You can also search for specific dates and time periods between 2012 and today!
The search results will show you:
- The recipient’s name
- Institutional affiliation at the time they were awarded their grant or scholarship
- Date and month the award was approved
- Grant or scholarship program
- Project title
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Justin Pargeter, New York University
Joan Cogswell Donner Field School Scholarship (May 2025)
Application for funding to support participation of four students from Africa in paleoarchaeological fieldwork
Nadine Ruppert, Malaysian Primatological Society
Primate Research Fund (May 2025)
Macaca Nemestrina Project, Segari
Stacy Lindshield, Purdue University
Primate Research Fund (May 2025)
Bridge funding for the Assirik Chimpanzee Research Site, Senegal
Abigail McClain, George Washington University
Research Grants (December 2024)
Social loss and the behavior and physiology of wild chimpanzees
Agazi Negash, Addis Ababa University
Research Grants (December 2024)
Obsidian and the archeology of the Middle Stone Age in Ethiopia
Aggrey Omuyangu, University of Memphis
Francis H. Brown African Scholarship (December 2024)
Frank Brown African Scholarship Fund
Audrey Arner, Vanderbilt University
Research Grants (December 2024)
Understanding how rapid environmental change impacts human evolution and adaptation
Bacara Spruit, University of the Witwatersrand
Research Grants (December 2024)
Unravelling human subsistence strategies at Boomplaas Cave during the LGM to LGIT
Baptiste Sadoughi, Arizona State University, Center for Evolution and Medicine
Research Grants (December 2024)
Social determinants of aging at the physiological and molecular levels in rhesus macaques
Charles Musiba, Saint Augustine University of Tanzania
Joan Cogswell Donner Field School Scholarship (December 2024)
Request for Joan Cogswell Donner Field School Scholarship funds to support five Tanzanian students