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Recent and Past Grantees

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!

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  • Institutional affiliation at the time they were awarded their grant or scholarship
  • Date and month the award was approved
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Sharmi Sen, University of Michigan

Baldwin Fellowship (May 2019)

Second Year Baldwin Support

Sheina Lew-Levy, Simon Fraser University

Research Grants (May 2019)

Hand-thrown spears: Ballistics, accuracy and learning to hunt among BaYaka Congo Basin foragers

Sofia Carrera, University of Michigan

Research Grants (May 2019)

Early-life adversity: Maternal effects in a wild primate

Terry Harrison, New York University

Research Grants (May 2019)

Paleoanthropological research in the Lower Laetolil Beds, Tanzania

William Allen, Swansea University

Research Grants (May 2019)

Character displacement of face appearance in primate evolution

Yossi Zaidner, Hebrew University

Research Grants (May 2019)

New Middle Paleolithic human fossils from the Levant: Excavations at Tinshemet Cave, Israel

Amy Scott, Boston University

Research Grants (December 2018)

Sexual conflict and sexual selection in Bornean orangutan reproductive strategies

Andrew Bernard, University of Michigan

Research Grants (December 2018)

Effects of climate change on primates, their habitat, and food

Anja Widdig, University of Leipzig

Primate Research Fund (December 2018)

Primate Research Fund: Macaca Nigra Project

April Nowell, University of Victoria

Research Grants (December 2018)

Protein Residue Analysis and Middle Pleistocene Dietary Adaptations (Azraq, Jordan)

I [name], of [city, state ZIP], bequeath the sum of $[ ] or [ ] percent of my estate to L.S.B. Leakey Foundation for Research Related to Man’s Origins, Behavior & Survival, (dba The Leakey Foundation), a nonprofit organization with a business address of 1003B O’Reilly Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94129 and a tax identification number 95-2536475 for its unrestricted use and purpose.

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