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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Amy Clark, Harvard University
Research Grants (December 2020)
The contribution of Northwest Africa to the cultural origins of modern humans: Archaeological excavations at Jorf el Hamam, southwest Morocco
Andrea Picin, University of Bologna
Research Grants (December 2020)
Investigating the Middle to Upper Paleolithic in Poland: New fieldworks at Mamutowa Cave and Krakow-Zwierzyniec
Cheryl Knott, Gunung Palung Orangutan Conservation Program
Primate Research Fund (December 2020)
Cabang Panti Research Station
Chie Hashimoto, Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University
Primate Research Fund (December 2020)
Kalinzu Central Forest Reserve
Elizabeth Niespolo, Princeton University
Research Grants (December 2020)
Development of novel 230Th/U burial dating of Australian megafaunal avian eggshells
Erin Kane, Gunung Palung Orangutan Conservation Program
Research Grants (December 2020)
Extended lactation in an unpredictable environment: Bornean orangutans’ double burden
Ghislain Wilfried Ebang Ella, Institut de Recherche en Ecologie Tropicale (IRET)
Research Grants (December 2020)
A systematic exploration of tool-use in Moukalaba-Doudou chimpanzees, Gabon
Giulia Gallo, The Regents of the University of California
Research Grants (December 2020)
Neanderthal fire technology: A zooarchaeological perspective
Ingrid Holzmann, Instituto de Bio y Geociencias del NOA (IBIGEO)-CONICET
Research Grants (December 2020)
Are black-and-gold howler monkeys (Alouatta caraya) "dear enemies"?
Irene Esteban, University of the Witwatersrand
Research Grants (December 2020)
Firewood investigation of plant-remains: Coupling ethnography with experimental archaeology to disentangle aspects of South African prehistory