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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- Date and month the award was approved
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Hila May, Department of Anatomy and Anthropology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University
Research Grants (December 2022)
Back to Emireh Cave: Tracing the origin of modern humans
Irene Solano Megias, Centro Nacional de Investigacion sobre la Evolucion Humana (CENIEH)
Research Grants (December 2022)
Techno-cognitive skills of Homo sapiens ca. 80-70 ka: The Middle Stone Age (MSA) at Gona, Ethiopia.
Isabelle Clark, University of Texas at Austin
Research Grants (December 2022)
The development of territorial conflict and group identity in wild chimpanzees
Jack Richardson, George Washington University
Research Grants (December 2022)
The role of social play in the development of gorillas
John Dalton, The Regents of the University of Colorado
Research Grants (December 2022)
Cognitive ecology of a nocturnal strepsirrhine primate (Otolemur crassicaudatus) and its implications on primate cognitive evolution.
John Lower, University of New Mexico
Research Grants (December 2022)
Mechanisms of collective inter-group aggression among wild chimpanzees in Uganda.
Jordan Lucore, University of Michigan
Research Grants (December 2022)
Gut microbiome-host endocrine interactions in white-faced capuchins (Cebus imitator)
Kate McGrath, Centro Nacional de Investigacion sobre la Evolucion Humana (CENIEH)
Research Grants (December 2022)
3D analysis of dental stress markers in the Atapuerca hominins
Kelsey Jorgensen, University of California, Los Angeles
Research Grants (December 2022)
How does hypoxic stress shape the genomic and physiological evolution of Nepali Sherpa?
Kelsey Witt, Clemson University
Research Grants (December 2022)
Identifying super-archaic introgression using demographic modeling