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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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Paul Kuchenbuch, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology

Research Grants (April 2013)

Development of gestural communication in bonobos (Pan paniscus) in the wild

Philip Slater, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Research Grants (April 2013)

Planning and technological organization in the Kenyan MSA and LSA

Rebecca Lewis, University of Texas at Austin

Research Grants (April 2013)

Behavioral and morphological influences on paternity distribution in Verreaux's sifaka

Shannon McFarlin, George Washington University

Research Grants (April 2013)

Growth and life history of wild mountain and western gorillas: Rwanda and Congo

Simone Dagui Ban, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Baldwin Fellowship (April 2013)

1st Year Baldwin Support

Stanislaus Kivai, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Baldwin Fellowship (April 2013)

2nd Year Baldwin Support

Teresa Steele, University of California, Davis

Research Grants (April 2013)

Varsche Rivier 003: A new Middle Stone Age site (Namaqualand, South Africa)

Agata Maria Wollnik, University of Stirling

Research Grants (December 2012)

Communicative roles of pelage colouration in a sexually dichromatic primate

Asier Gomez Olivencia, University of Cambridge

Research Grants (December 2012)

CT-scanning of the vertebral column and thorax of Regourdou1 Neandertal

Barry Hewlett, Washington State University

Research Grants (December 2012)

Demography, subsistence, and culture of the Shabu hunter-gatherers of SW Ethiopia

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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