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Recent and Past Grantees

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!

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Piotr Rozwalak, Friedrich Schiller University

Research Grants (December 2024)

Uncovering the Neandertal gut virome

Raquel Hernando, Centro Nacional de Investigacion sobre la Evolucion Humana (CENIEH)

Research Grants (December 2024)

Investigating the later Pleistocene dietary behavior of colobus, baboon, and vervet monkeys in the Afar Region of Ethiopia.

Ruth Linsky, Simon Fraser University

Research Grants (December 2024)

Improving orangutan census techniques with thermal drones

Savannah Troha, Arizona State University; Institute of Human Origins

Research Grants (December 2024)

Individual variation in male chimpanzee social phenotype

Shevan Wilkin, University of Basel

Research Grants (December 2024)

Residues of daily life: A palaeoproteomic investigation of archaeological beads

Silvia Carboni, University of Calgary

Research Grants (December 2024)

Host-microbe ecosystems in the context of reproduction in wild tamarin monkeys

Susana Carvalho, Gorongosa Restoration Project

Joan Cogswell Donner Field School Scholarship (December 2024)

Gorongosa Interdisciplinary Field School - Lourenco

Susana Carvalho, Gorongosa Restoration Project

Joan Cogswell Donner Field School Scholarship (December 2024)

Gorongosa Interdisciplinary Field School - Sousa

Susana Carvalho, Gorongosa Restoration Project

Joan Cogswell Donner Field School Scholarship (December 2024)

Gorongosa Human Evolution Field School - Coelho

Tekie Tesfamichael, Addis Ababa University

Francis H. Brown African Scholarship (December 2024)

The Contributions of Climate change to Human Evolution: Evidence from fossil leaves

I [name], of [city, state ZIP], bequeath the sum of $[ ] or [ ] percent of my estate to L.S.B. Leakey Foundation for Research Related to Man’s Origins, Behavior & Survival, (dba The Leakey Foundation), a nonprofit organization with a business address of 1003B O’Reilly Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94129 and a tax identification number 95-2536475 for its unrestricted use and purpose.

If you have questions, please contact Sharal Camisa Smith sharal at leakeyfoundation.org. 

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