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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Matt Tocheri, Lakehead University
Research Grants (December 2016)
New archaeological excavations at Liang Bua (Flores, Indonesia)
Meike Zemihn, Leiden University
Research Grants (December 2016)
Tracing the origins of language: Syntax in common marmosets (Brazil)
Monica Wakefield, Northern Kentucky University
Research Grants (December 2016)
Genetic census and habituation of bonobos at Iyema (Lomako, DRC)
Paul Manger, University of the Witwatersrand
Research Grants (December 2016)
Ape brains in a comparative perspective, South Africa
Piotr Fedurek, University of Roehampton
Research Grants (December 2016)
The effect of social integration on physiological stress levels in a small-scale society
Ron Shimelmitz, University of Haifa
Research Grants (December 2016)
New excavations at Skhul Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel
Scott Williams, New York University
Research Grants (December 2016)
Skeletal contributions to lumbar lordosis in recent and fossil hominins
Sileshi Semaw, Centro Nacional de Investigacion sobre la Evolucion Humana (CENIEH)
Research Grants (December 2016)
Gona Palaeoanthropological Research Project
Stephanie Schnorr, University of Oklahoma
Research Grants (December 2016)
Physiological relevance of salivary amylase copy number variation for starch digestion in human evolution
Thierry Smith, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Research Grants (December 2016)
Diversity and relationships of earliest Euprimates from Tadkeshwar Mine, India