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Grantee Spotlight: Ashley Hammond

Grantee Spotlight

Ashley Hammond of the George Washington University was awarded a Leakey Foundation research grant during our spring 2015 cycle for her project entitled “Reconstructing phenotypic change of the pelvis in apes and … Continued

Grantee Spotlight: Rebecca Miller

Grantee Spotlight

Rebecca Miller is a researcher at the University of Liege. She was awarded a Leakey Foundation research grant during our spring 2015 cycle for her project entitled “The Middle-Upper Paleolithic transition … Continued

From the Field: Nicole Squyres

From the Field

Nicole Squyres is a PhD candidate from Johns Hopkins University. She was awarded a Leakey Foundation research grant in our fall 2014 cycle for her project entitled “Morphological variation in the distal … Continued

Grantee Spotlight: Tyler Faith

Grantee Spotlight

Tyler Faith is a researcher from the University of Queensland in Australia. He was awarded a Leakey Foundation research grant during our spring 2015 cycle for his project entitled “Middle Stone Age of the Gwasi and Uyoma Peninsulas, Kenya.”

Grantee Spotlight: Kelsey Ellis

Grantee Spotlight

Kelsey Ellis is a PhD candidate at the University of Texas at Austin. During our spring 2015 cycle she was awarded a Leakey Foundation research grant for her project entitled … Continued

Grantee Spotlight: Gabriele Schino

Grantee Spotlight

Gabriele Schino was awarded a Leakey Foundation research grant during our fall 2014 cycle for his project entitled “The emotional basis of primate reciprocity.” He and his collaborator Elsa Addessi … Continued

Grantee Spotlight: Halszka Glowacka

Grantee Spotlight

Halszka Glowacka is a PhD candidate at Arizona State University.  She was awarded a grant during our spring 2015 cycle for her project entitled “Biomechanical constraints on molar emergence in primates.” Halszka … Continued

Grantee Spotlight: Thierra Nalley

Grantee Spotlight

The next grantee from our spring 2015 cycle is Thierra Nalley from the California Academy of Sciences.  Her project is entitled “Ontogeny of the thoracolumbar transition in extant hominoids and … Continued

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