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:
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- 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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Emily Orlikoff, University of Michigan
Research Grants (December 2023)
Signals of arboreality in the glenohumeral joint: Reconstructing hominin locomotor behavior
Lillian Fornof, Harvard University
Research Grants (December 2023)
How motherhood shapes patterns of female sociality and social relationships
Lotan Edeltin, The Israel Prehistoric Society
Research Grants (December 2023)
Late Middle - Early Upper Paleolithic (~80-40 ka. cal. BP.) in the Levant: Cultural diversity and population dynamics, a view from Shualim Rockshelter, Israel
McKensey Miller, University of Michigan
Research Grants (December 2023)
Adaptation to an environmental extreme in a close human relative
Meredith Carlson, University of California, Davis
Research Grants (December 2023)
Developing an archaeology of white-faced capuchins, Coiba, Panama
Miranda Ventrella, Durham University
Research Grants (December 2023)
Non-invasive psycho-physiological techniques to measure affective states in wild Chacma baboons (Papio ursinus)
Ragnheiour Asmundsdottir, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen
Research Grants (December 2023)
Delving deeper into human skeletal proteomes
Chelsea Southworth, University of Notre Dame
Research Grants (May 2023)
Effects of early adversity on social development and fitness in adolescent female baboons
Ella Brown, University of Michigan
Research Grants (May 2023)
Do social environments influence the timing of male maturation in a close human relative?
Fanny Tibesar, Osnabruck University
Research Grants (May 2023)
Gestural signaling in adult sooty mangabeys (Cercocebus aty) in the wild: New and old measures to investigate flexibility and intentionality