The Department of Anthropology has an excellent faculty, diverse research interests, high national visibility, and a reputation for first-rate graduate and undergraduate programs. The Department's vibrant and active center of research and teaching is focused in the areas of cultural anthropology, archaeology, biological anthropology, sociocultural anthropology, and integrative anthropological sciences. Gifts to the Department of Anthropology support scholarships, fellowships, professorships, technological innovations, research, renovations, and new facilities as well as attract and retain students with great academic potential, creativity, and motivation.