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Meave Leakey receives the Hubbard Medal

13 July 2016

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Meave Leakey nationalgeographic.com/" target="_blank">National Geographic Society awards the Hubbard Medal, its highest honor, to Meave Leakey in recognition of a lifetime of achievement.

Millions of years from now, an aspiring anthropology student may brush the dust off a gleaming gold artifact we call the Hubbard Medal, and wonder to whom it belonged.

But today, we know the  belongs to world-renowned paleoanthropologist Meave Leakey, research professor in Stony Brook University's Department of Anthropology.

Meave is also director of field research at the  in Kenya, a unique nonprofit initiative co-founded by the Leakey family and Stony Brook to drive research at one of the best locations on Earth for studying the origins of humankind.