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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Li Li, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Research Grants (December 2020)
An experimental approach to reconstruct the “invisible” knapping variables from the Oldowan record
Lucy Timbrell, University of Liverpool
Research Grants (December 2020)
Structured metapopulations of Pleistocene humans in Africa: Creating a demographic model using climatic, fossil and archaeological data
Melissa Painter, University of Michigan
Research Grants (December 2020)
Extra-group social knowledge in captive and wild capuchins
Patricia Wright, Stony Brook University
Primate Research Fund (December 2020)
Centre ValBio Research Station, Ranomafana National Park
Richard F. Kay, Duke University
Research Grants (December 2020)
Hominin dental topography in 4D: A novel assessment of diet
Samuel Ngui Muteti, University of Minnesota
Francis H. Brown African Scholarship (December 2020)
Frank Brown African Scholarship Fund
Samuel Ngui Muteti, University of Minnesota
Research Grants (December 2020)
The emergence of crown hominoids in the middle Miocene of western Kenya.
Sebastian Ramirez Amaya, Arizona State University
Research Grants (December 2020)
Male-female social relationships in chimpanzees and the evolution of pair-bonding in humans
Sileshi Semaw, Centro Nacional de Investigacion sobre la Evolucion Humana (CENIEH)
Research Grants (December 2020)
Continued investigation of the Middle Stone Age and Later Stone Age at Gona, Afar, Ethiopia: New sites <75 - 6 ka
Sofia Samper Carro, The Australian National University
Research Grants (December 2020)
Investigating Neanderthal lifestyle during the MIS4 in the southeastern Pre-Pyrenees