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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Alexis Uluutku, George Washington University
Research Grants (December 2022)
The role of character displacement and ecological niche incumbency in hominin evolution
Anastasia Eleftheriadou, Universidade do Algarve
Research Grants (December 2022)
Geo-archaeoinformatic approaches and multiscale mapping of coastal paleosols and archaeology in eastern South Africa.
Anil Kumar Devara, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
Research Grants (December 2022)
Investigating multiple fossil beds from Motravulapadu, Andhra Pradesh: Implications for faunal responses to climatic, volcanic, and anthropogenic-driven changes during the Late Pleistocene in South Asia
Catherine Kitrinos, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Research Grants (December 2022)
Bats, baboons, and berries: Microbial transmission at Kasanka National Park
Christian Gagnon, Boston University
Research Grants (December 2022)
Validating selection using expression UCP1 in fibroblast-derived brown adipocytes
Edwin Dickinson, New York Institute of Technology
Research Grants (December 2022)
Determinants of grasping strength in primates
Elena Robakiewicz, University of Connecticut
Research Grants (December 2022)
Early/Mid-Pleistocene environments of Paleolake Suguta, Kenya: Implications for hominin migration and evolution
Emma Thurau, CUNY/NYCEP
Research Grants (December 2022)
Balancing nutrients and toxins in wild monkey diets: A chemical phenotype approach
Friyat Angesom Kidane, Aksum University
Francis H. Brown African Scholarship (December 2022)
History of woody biodiversity and its human exploitation from Pleistocene to Holocene in the Horn of Africa: Archaeobotanical, anthracological approaches
Hasinala Ramangason, University of Calgary
Research Grants (December 2022)
Feast and famine: Nutrigenomics of frugivorous lemurs in southeastern madagascar