Interview with Susan Perry in Knowable Magazine
“Meet the Capuchin monkey”: an interview with BEC faculty Susan Perry in Knowable magazine, from Annual Reviews: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2025/meet-the-capuchin-monkey
Entries by Clark Barrett
New study by Susan Perry and colleagues on the adaptive role of stress responses in surviving extreme environmental events
BEC Faculty Susan Perry and BEC PhD student Ashley Mensing have co-authored a new paper in Science Advances on stress responses in white-faced capuchin monkeys, showing that more extreme stress […]
Brooke Scelza in Scientific American on the ‘manosphere’
BEC Faculty member and Professor of Anthropology Brooke Scelza has a new piece in Scientific American about what the ‘manosphere’ gets wrong about cuckoldry: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/heres-what-the-manosphere-gets-wrong-about-cuckoldry/
Former BEC grad Kristine Chua in the news
Former BEC grad student Kristine Chua, now a postdoc at UCSB, has been featured in the online magazine STAT, and has been named one of STAT’s 2023 “Wunderkinds.” Congrats Kristine! […]
New papers by BECers in American Journal of Primatology
The latest issue of AJP features two new articles by BEC members Sasha Winkler, Dani Steinberg, Jessica Lynch, Susan Perry and Erica Cartmill: The development of sex differences in play […]
Dan Blumstein receives Richard Buchholz conservation behavior award from the Animal Behavior Society
EEB Faculty member and BEC affiliate Dan Blumstein has been awarded the 2020 Richard Buchholz conservation behavior award from the Animal Behavior Society Conservation Committee: https://newsroom.ucla.edu/dept/faculty/dan-blumenstein-recognized-for-research-mentorship-in-conservation-behavior-field
Renée Hagen awarded the 2021 George C. Williams award by the International Society for Evolution, Medicine and Public Health
UCLA Anthropology student Renée Hagen has been awarded the 2021 George C. Williams award by the International Society for Evolution, Medicine and Public Health. This is a $5,000 Prize for […]
UCLA’s Sasha Winkler on animal laughter on NPR
UCLA Anthropology graduate student Sasha Winkler discusses research on animal laughter by her and Prof. Greg Bryant on NPR: https://www.npr.org/2021/05/22/999491591/dozens-of-animals-laugh-too-study-shows
Community Involvement & Representation(s) in Biological Anthropology : A Panel Discussion on April 23, 10:30 AM – 2 PM PDT
Community Involvement & Representation(s) in Biological Anthropology A Panel Discussion on April 23, 10:30 AM – 2 PM PDT What do biological anthropologists owe to their research participants? How do […]
Feb 17 – EvMed Grand Rounds – Dr. Joseph L. Graves, Jr. – Evolutionary Versus Racial Medicine: Why It Matters
See the attached flyer for information on upcoming UCLA Department of Medicine’s Evolutionary Medicine Grand Rounds next week Wednesday, Feb 17, 2021 at 8:30am PST: Dr. Joseph L. Graves, Jr. […]