No Woman should suffer giving Life
Unfortunately, to many women in rural Kenya, pregnancy and child bearing is a life-threatening experience. The Safaricom Foundation has come to the aid of [...]
Deaf Girl Attends School
Disabled children in Turkana as in many poor communities are neglected and education for them is a far fetched dream. That was the case [...]
New Australopithecus sediba hominin fossils featured on 60 MINUTES
Richard Leakey joins other scientists in discussing Lee Berger's amazing new "treasure trove" of Australopithecus sediba fossils You can also view this post in [...]
Ileret Bursary Students Team Building Activities
A schedule of activities has been selected for TBI Bursary students from Ileret while they are on school holidays this month by the TBI [...]
Ileret Community Mobilizes for Wind Pump Repairs
Following the grant provided by the Australian High Commission, the Ileret community has mobilized resources to bring down the old wind pump and facilitate [...]
Fossil Hunter Hillary Sale in Nairobi for training
Turkana Basin Institute field assistant Hillary sale is at the National Museums of Kenya in Nairobi for training on the sieving and preparation of [...]
Science to Benefit Humanity
It has been another busy January and Febrauary, with an overwhelming number of high school boys and girls seeking financial support to see them [...]
Introducing the TBI geoBlog
Ever wonder where many of the most significant fossils of our earlient human ancestors were found? Curious about where in the world current research [...]
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 [...]
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. You can [...]
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 [...]
Fossil preparation training gets underway
While some of the crew have been wet sieving the sediments recovered from the last field season, others have been doing specimen preparation. There [...]
TBI celebrates fifty years of “Zinj” in NYC
2009 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of Zinjanthropus in Olduvai Gorge by Mary Leakey, and The Turkana Basin Institute celebrated the event [...]
TBI postdoc receives SVP award
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 [...]
Wet sieving continues
Lawrence Nzuve After the short break after the field season, some members of the crew are back to work to continue with the wet [...]
Volkswagen Foundation / DAAD Summerschool 2009
In September 2009 the first VolkswagenFoundation/DAAD Summerschool was conducted in the Central and Southern Kenya Rift and at the University of Nairobi. You can [...]
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, [...]
The field season takes a break
We close this season very content knowing that it has been a success. Its been exciting with several good discoveries made by several members [...]
From the three seive sites
With the discovery, documenting and collecting of the hominin finds completed, each site now has to be seived. The crew does the preliminary sieving [...]
Three hominins in a single morning
The last few weeks have been busy and exciting for the crew members. What a day it was with the discovery of three [...]