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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Kasih Norman, University of Wollongong
Research Grants (December 2019)
Rapid discovery and OSL dating of archaeological sites in Timor
Laura MacLatchy, University of Michigan
Research Grants (December 2019)
Ecological determinants and arboreal feeding positional behavior in Pan troglodytes
Linda Vigilant, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Research Grants (December 2019)
Elucidating the hidden kinship structure of wild chimpanzee communities in Uganda
Margaret Buehler, Tulane University
Research Grants (December 2019)
Subordinate male roles in primate groups with high reproductive skew
Mary Shenk, Pennsylvania State University
Research Grants (December 2019)
Estimating fertility, disease, and famine using tooth cementum - a validation study in rural Matlab, Bangladesh
Matilda Brindle, University College London
Research Grants (December 2019)
Does masturbation serve an adaptive function in male rhesus macaques?
Mulugeta Feseha, Southern Methodist University
Research Grants (December 2019)
Digitizing and distributing the fossil hominin and archaeology collections of the Ethiopian National Museum
Patrick Gathogo, Turkana Basin Institute
Francis H. Brown African Scholarship (December 2019)
Geochronology Method Using Petrology for Stratigraphy and Correlation of Hominin Sites in Northwestern Kenya
Rebecca Brittain, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Research Grants (December 2019)
The role of the gut microbiome in digestion and energy production in wild Bornean orangutans across shifting nutritional landscapes
Rosemary Bettle, University of Michigan
Research Grants (December 2019)
The evolution of social intelligence in macaques