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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Sofya Dolotovskaya, German Primate Center DPZ
Primate Research Fund (December 2022)
Estacion Biologica Quebrada Blanco
Spencer Irvine, Yale University
Research Grants (December 2022)
Early primate locomotion: The importance of leaping to primate origins
Tekie Tesfamichael, Paleoanthropology and Paleoenvironment Program, College of Natural Sciences, Addis Ababa University.
Francis H. Brown African Scholarship (December 2022)
The influence of climate change on human evolution: Miocene climate estimated from fossil leaves
Zandra Fagernas, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen
Research Grants (December 2022)
Decontamination of skeletal elements for the palaeoproteomic study of hominin evolution
Alastair Key, University of Cambridge
Research Grants (May 2022)
Rescue excavations at the Lower Palaeolithic site of Fordwich, the earliest directly dated Acheulean site in the UK
Alessandra Mascaro, Osnabruck University, Institute of Cognitive Science
Research Grants (May 2022)
Insect application and wound care in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) in the wild
Alex Chege, Stony Brook University
Baldwin Fellowship (May 2022)
Second Year Baldwin Support
Alice Poirier, University of Calgary
Research Grants (May 2022)
Olfaction, reproduction, and the contributions of microbes
Alice Rodriguez, New York University
Research Grants (May 2022)
Investigating use-wear patterns on handaxes from Europe and Asia.
Annette Oertle, University of Vienna
Research Grants (May 2022)
Using ZooMS to identify new human fossils in archaeological deposits in Papua New Guinea