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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Tania King, University College London
Research Grants (December 2017)
Neanderthal occupation of the southern Caucasus: Chronological and biogeographic framework
Hesham Sallam, Duke University
Research Grants (October 2017)
Second Emergency Grant: Locality BQ-2, Fayum Depression, Egypt -- rescue mission
Alexander Titan Kabelindde, University College London
Baldwin Fellowship (April 2017)
1st Year Baldwin Support
Aly Baumgartner, Baylor University
Research Grants (April 2017)
Paleoclimatic reconstruction of the Miocene on Rusinga Island, Kenya
Amy Bauernfeind, Washington University, St Louis
Research Grants (April 2017)
Comparative gene expression of primate cerebellum
Andres Gomez, J. Craig Venter Institute
Research Grants (April 2017)
Host-microbe interactions in the primate gut: Implications for human origins
Carrie Miller, University of Minnesota
Research Grants (April 2017)
Does paternity certainty elicit protection and support of offspring by male gelada monkeys?
Christian Tryon, Harvard University
Research Grants (April 2017)
Archaeology and modern human origins: Investigations of the Late Pleistocene Nyanza Rift, Kenya
David Samson, Duke University
Research Grants (April 2017)
What drives sleep flexibility? A comparative investigation of circumpolar and equatorial hunter-gatherers
Deming Yang, Stony Brook University
Research Grants (April 2017)
Isotopic variability among Plio-Pleistocene Turkana suids: Paleoenvironments and hominin evolution