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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Breanne Clifton, University of Connecticut
Research Grants (December 2017)
Using phytoliths to reconstruct hominin adaptations and microhabitats during the Acheulian-MSA transition in the Kapthurin Formation, Kenya
Brendan Barrett, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology
Research Grants (December 2017)
Stone tool use & taxonomic status of Coiba Archipelago capuchins
Caroline Schuppli, University of Zurich
Research Grants (December 2017)
Orangutan mothers' adaptive strategies to make their infants develop fast
Christopher Gilbert, Research Foundation, CUNY
Research Grants (December 2017)
Primate evolution, chronology, and biogeography in the Indian Lower Siwaliks
Duna Susie Lee, New York University
Research Grants (December 2017)
The role of testosterone in the modulation of parental behaviors in female rhesus macaques
Dylan Gaffney, University of Cambridge
Research Grants (December 2017)
The initial colonisation of insular rainforests by archaic and modern hominins
Elizabeth Mallott, Northwestern University
Research Grants (December 2017)
Response of primate gut microbiome function to increased faunivory
Fredrick Manthi, University of Utah
Research Grants (December 2017)
Investigations of Middle Pleistocene sites in Natodomeri, northwestern Kenya
Frido Welker, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Research Grants (December 2017)
Towards complex Pleistocene hominin proteomes using multiple proteases.
Hannah Hilbert-Wolf, James Cook University
Research Grants (December 2017)
Dating hominin fossils in the East African Rift, Malawi