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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Melanie Fenton, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Research Grants (December 2018)
Coercive and affiliative mating tactics in olive baboons (Papio anubis)
Miranda Nicole Cosman, University of Michigan
Research Grants (December 2018)
Skeletal ontogenetic responses to positional behaviour in Hominoids
Nicolas Brucato, Universite Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier
Research Grants (December 2018)
Adaptive introgression from Denisova at high-altitude in New Guinea.
Rachel Petersen, New York University
Research Grants (December 2018)
Sperm preference, ejaculate allocation, and socio-sexual signaling in olive baboons
Rhiannon Stevens, University College London
Research Grants (December 2018)
Hunting for human and Neanderthal fossils at Kent’s Cavern, England.
Richard Klein, Stanford University Office of Sponsored Research
Research Grants (December 2018)
Dating human skulls from South African fossil hyena dens
Sabrina Curran, Ohio University
Research Grants (December 2018)
Taphonomy and chronology of Pleistocene fossil sites in central Romania
Shanti Pappu, Sharma Centre for Heritage Education
Research Grants (December 2018)
Acheulian evolution and transitions to the Middle Palaeolithic in India
Sharmi Sen, University of Michigan
Research Grants (December 2018)
Examining the causes and consequences of variation in male reproductive strategies in wild geladas
Sileshi Semaw, Centro Nacional de Investigacion sobre la Evolucion Humana (CENIEH)
Research Grants (December 2018)
Continued Investigation of Middle Stone Age (MSA) archaeological sites and associated hominin cranium at Gona, Afar, Ethiopia