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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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Jeremy DeSilva, Boston University

Research Grants (December 2012)

The midtarsal break and locomotor diversity in early hominins

Josephine Joordens, Leiden University

Research Grants (December 2012)

A cyclostratigraphic framework for hominin fossils from the Turkana Basin

Kevin Potts, Augsburg College

Research Grants (December 2012)

Nutritional ecology of chimpanzees at Ngogo, Kibale National Park, Uganda

Kimberly Congdon, University of Missouri

Research Grants (December 2012)

Grasping pressures and phalangeal curvature in primates: An experimental in vivo approach

Kirsten Elise Holt Jenkins, University of Minnesota

Research Grants (December 2012)

Taphonomy of Rusinga Island

Leila Porter, Northern Illinois University

Research Grants (December 2012)

Fitness benefits of cooperative behavior in Bolivian saddleback tamarins

Maria Martinon-Torres, Centro Nacional de Investigaci—n sobre la Evoluci—n Humana (CENIEH)

Research Grants (December 2012)

Micro-CT study of the Pleistocene human fossil teeth from Atapuerca

Marie-Claude Jolly-Saad, Paris Nanterre University

Research Grants (December 2012)

Fossil wood from the Middle Awash and Omo hominid sites

Michael Rogers, Southern Connecticut State University

Research Grants (December 2012)

Continued investigations into the Oldowan-Acheulian transition at Gona, Ethiopia

Samuel Urlacher, Harvard University

Research Grants (December 2012)

Childhood energetics: growth, immune function, and tradeoffs in Amazonia

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.

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