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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Benjamin Collins, The Governing Council of the University of Toronto
Research Grants (April 2014)
Middle Stone Age excavations at Grassridge Rockshelter, South Africa
Dagmawit Abebe Getahun, City University of New York, CUNY
Baldwin Fellowship (April 2014)
1st Year Baldwin Support
Daniel Green, Harvard University
Research Grants (April 2014)
Plio-Pleistocene seasonal precipitation through isotopes in bovid molars, West Turkana
Dillon Niederhut, The Regents of the University of California
Research Grants (April 2014)
MRI microscopy of human motor neurons
Elizabeth Renner, George Washington University
Research Grants (April 2014)
Individual, observational, and imitation learning in humans and great apes
Gonen Sharon, Tel Hai College
Research Grants (April 2014)
Excavating the Mousterian hunting camp of NMO, Upper Jordan River
Horacio de la Iglesia, University of Washington
Research Grants (April 2014)
Searching for ancestral sleep in human populations of the Argentinean Chaco
Ian Wallace, The Research Foundation for SUNY
Research Grants (April 2014)
'Phylogenetic signal' in limb bone shaft structure among South Africans
Isaiah Odhiambo Nengo, De Anza College
Research Grants (April 2014)
Preliminary paleontological exploration at Napedet: A new middle Miocene site in the Turkana basin
Jason Massey, University of Minnesota
Research Grants (April 2014)
Pattern and timing of ontogeny in populations of Gorilla and Pan