TBI celebrates fifty years of "Zinj" in NYCScott Bjelland | Friday, 13 November 2009 2009 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of Zinjanthropus in Olduvai Gorge by Mary Leakey, and The Turkana Basin Institute celebrated the event with a public symposium on September 30, 2009... |
TBI postdoc receives SVP awardScott Bjelland | Saturday, 31 October 2009 STONY BROOK, NY--Frederick Kyalo Manthi, Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Scholar-in-Residence at the Turkana Basin Institute, recently received an award to attend and present a paper at the annual meeting of the ... |
Volkswagen Foundation / DAAD Summerschool 2009Martin Trauth | Friday, 16 October 2009 In September 2009 the first VolkswagenFoundation/DAAD Summerschool was conducted in the Central and Southern Kenya Rift and at the University of Nairobi.... |
Latest images from the west side camp at TurkwelLouise Leakey | Friday, 26 June 2009 The following images show the construction progress at TBI's Turkwel research facility... |
First-ever cast of 'Hobbit' unveiled at Stony Brook UniversityScott Bjelland | Tuesday, 7 April 2009 World-Renowned Anthropologist Richard Leakey Convenes Top Researchers To Discuss 'Flo,' The Enigmatic 'Hobbit'... |
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Big Funding Boost for TBIOn 19th September 2009 through the generosity of four extraordinary friends of TBI, Ian Telfer, Nancy Burke, and Jussi and Sally Westergren, a successful event was held to raise funds for the infrastructural development at Turkana.... Read more |
Images of the completed Mess and Accommodations Block at TBI TurkwelHere are some images of the buildings that were completed just in time for the conference held at Turkwel in August 2009.... Read more |
TBI scientists featured on NOVA documentarySeveral Turkana Basin Institute scientists and Stony Brook University faculty members were featured in a recent documentary exploring the latest scientific research into human origins.... Read more |
TBI celebrates 50 years of Zinjanthropus with symposium and workshop in KenyaThe 8th Human Evolution workshop and symposium, “Half a Century after Zinj - Paranthropus boisei in Context” was held in Kenya in August 2009, to mark the 50th anniversary of the discovery of Zinjanthropus by Mary Leakey at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania... Read more |





