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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Christina Ryder, University of Colorado, Boulder
Research Grants (December 2019)
Saving old bones: Using near-infrared spectroscopy to predict collagen yield in bone.
Colin Chapman, George Washington University
Primate Research Fund (December 2019)
Primate Research Fund: Kibale National Park, Uganda
Eleanor Scerri, Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology
Research Grants (December 2019)
Unravelling the rainforest: The Pleistocene cultural record of Anyama (Ivory Coast) and its ecological context
Elizabeth Tapanes, George Washington University
Research Grants (December 2019)
Hair evolution in a comparative context
Fernando Villanea, Brown University
Research Grants (December 2019)
Neanderthal and Denisovan introgression in indigenous Americans
Fredrick Manthi, National Museums of Kenya
Research Grants (December 2019)
Explorations of the Middle Pleistocene sites in Natodomeri, northwestern Kenya
Harmonie Klein, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Research Grants (December 2019)
Hunting strategy and food sharing in wild central Chimpanzees
Jerred Schafer, The Research Foundation for SUNY
Research Grants (December 2019)
The evolution of sex differences in mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx): Quantitative genetics of color and size dimorphism
Joshua Robinson, Boston University
Research Grants (December 2019)
Multiproxy paleoecology of ~ 2.35 Ma early Homo from Ethiopia
Julie Teichroeb, University of Toronto Scarborough
Research Grants (December 2019)
Kinship patterns and mechanisms of male tolerance in a Rwenzori Angolan colobus multi-level society