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Big Funding Boost for TBI

On 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....

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Images of the completed Mess and Accommodations Block at TBI Turkwel

Here are some images of the buildings that were completed just in time for the conference held at Turkwel in August 2009....

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TBI scientists featured on NOVA documentary

Several Turkana Basin Institute scientists and Stony Brook University faculty members were featured in a recent documentary exploring the latest scientific research into human origins....

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TBI celebrates 50 years of Zinjanthropus with symposium and workshop in Kenya

The 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...

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TBI celebrates fifty years of "Zinj" in NYC

Scott 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 award

Scott 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 ...

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Volkswagen Foundation / DAAD Summerschool 2009

Martin 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....

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Latest images from the west side camp at Turkwel

Louise Leakey | Friday, 26 June 2009

The following images show the construction progress at TBI's Turkwel research facility...

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First-ever cast of 'Hobbit' unveiled at Stony Brook University

Scott Bjelland | Tuesday, 7 April 2009

World-Renowned Anthropologist Richard Leakey Convenes Top Researchers To Discuss 'Flo,' The Enigmatic 'Hobbit'...

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