BEC Affiliate Dan Fessler is the new director of the UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute latimes.com/california/sto…

Today kicked off another great line-up of BEC speakers with an excellent talk by Kristi Lewton 🏳️‍🌈 on the obstetric dilemma. Go to bec.ucla.edu/upcoming.php for a list of upcoming talks.

BEC has a new director! After 14 yrs of service Dan Fessler is stepping down and Clark Barrett will be steering BEC into the future.

Passing of the baton / tiara / crown from outgoing EAS pres Mary Shenk to @bascelza. Long may she reign! It’s been a great set of talks at #AAACASCA #evoanthro19. Looking forward to next year!

Caitlin O’Connell talking about sociality in adolescent female orangutans today at BEC.

Thanks for the shout-out Carl T. Bergstrom!

A lovely tribute to UCLA alum Frank Marlowe

BEC affiliate and past director Dan Fessler on CNN

New paper out by BEC faculty member Brooke Scelza and colleagues

Robert Seyfarth was today’s BEC speaker summarizing an impressive history of research on communication in non-human primates and the social origins of language. Huge turnout at both talk and coffee!

New paper out in PNAS with BEC member Brian Wood as co-author

BEC member Dan Fessler discusses how an understanding of our past can help us to face challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic kindness.ucla.edu/2020/03/30/a-g…