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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Elizabeth Werren, University of Michigan
Research Grants (May 2019)
Human-specific gene expansion during human brain evolution
Emanuele Cancellieri, Sapienza University of Rome
Research Grants (May 2019)
Archaeology, chronology, environment of northern Sahara early Middle Stone Age
Emily Levy, Duke University
Research Grants (May 2019)
Early adversity, body size, and immune function in wild baboons
Erella Hovers, Hebrew University
Research Grants (May 2019)
Giant core workshops at the Acheulian site of Melka Wakena, Ethiopia
Gabriele Schino, Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Research Grants (May 2019)
Testing the cognitive components of primate cooperation
Herve Bocherens, University of Tubingen
Research Grants (May 2019)
Environment of early hominins outside Africa: The Guadix-Baza Basin
Husna Mashaka, University of Nairobi
Baldwin Fellowship (May 2019)
First Year Baldwin Support
Ipyana Mwakyoma, Colorado State University (CSU)
Baldwin Fellowship (May 2019)
Second Year Baldwin Support
Irene Gallego Romero, University of Melbourne
Research Grants (May 2019)
Functional evaluation of archaic Denisovan variants in Island Southeast Asia
Irene Smail, Arizona State University
Research Grants (May 2019)
Community ecology of living and fossil cercopithecid primates