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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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
Sileshi Semaw, Centro Nacional de Investigacion sobre la Evolucion Humana (CENIEH)
Research Grants (December 2023)
Continued investigation of the Middle Stone Age and Later Stone Age at Gona, Afar, Ethiopia: New sites >300 - 7 Ka
Zewdu Kifle, Bahir Dar University
Research Grants (December 2023)
Underground storage organs: Fallback or preferred food for geladas?
Alison Behie, The Australian National University
Research Grants (May 2023)
Using stress markers in teeth to better understand the lives of our ancestors
Aloyce Mwambwiga, University of Calgary
Baldwin Fellowship (May 2023)
First Year Baldwin Support
Amanda Melin, University of Texas at San Antonio
Research Grants (May 2023)
Manual discriminative touch, hand morphological variation, and frugivory in wild Geoffroy’s spider monkeys
Bahru Zinaye Asegahegn, University of Cologne
Francis H. Brown African Scholarship (May 2023)
Francis H. Brown Scholarship Fund
Charles Musiba, University of Colorado, Denver
Joan Cogswell Donner Field School Scholarship (May 2023)
Request for Joan Cogswell Donner Field School Scholarship funds to support Tanzanian students
Charles Musiba, University of Colorado, Denver
Research Grants (May 2023)
Hominin recovery, conservation, and documentation of animal trackways at localities 7, 7E, and 7SW at Laetoli, Tanzania