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The Anthropology Department is greatly appreciative of our alumni and friends for their financial support over the years. Your contribution will go toward supporting scholarships and awards to many of our worthy graduate students and the department as a whole. Contributions of any size make a significant difference in the lives of our students and faculty to conduct research around the world on a variety of exciting topics.

Your gift to the Anthropology Department can take many different shapes. The information below highlights many of the different funding opportunities our department has to meet your desired funding goals and the impacts you want to make. The can also assist you with your needs, be they for targeted or unrestricted programs.

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General Anthropology Fund


Contributions are used to support department activities at the discretion of the department chair including purchasing specialized software and being able to attract outstanding faculty scholars.

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Archaeological Field School


To provide support for the archaeological field school in the Department of Anthropology at the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ.

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Anthropology Graduate Student Support Fund


Contributions to this fund are used to support the research and teaching of our graduate students in the program. These students study within our 3 sub-disciplines of Archaeology, Biological Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology.

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Biological Anthropology Field Workers Fund

To support field workers integral to research in the Dept of Anthropology at Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder including travel, education enhancement and expenses associated with bringing individuals to the US.Ìý Strong preference is for field workers from rural West Africa.

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David Breternitz Endowment for Archaeological Field Research Fund


The David Breternitz Endowment for Archaeological Field Research fund was recently established in his honor by his friends to support graduate student fieldwork in the Southwest. David Breternitz’s career at the University of Colorado consisted of a great deal of fieldwork in the Fremont, Mesa Verde, and Dolores districts and in various parts of Africa. In 3 seasons in the Fremont, 13 summers at Mesa Verde, and 8 more at Dolores, Breternitz trained hundreds of future academic, federal, and contract archaeologists. He reached many others as MC of the SW at the Pecos Conference. Your generous gift will contribute to this fund.

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Earl Morris Scholarship Fund


To provide an award to outstanding archaeology Ph.D. students in the Department of Anthropology at Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder in honor of Earl Morris.

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George Armelagos Memorial Flatirons Fund for the Department of Anthropology at the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ


To provide unrestricted support for the Department of Anthropology at the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ.

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Undergraduate Excellence in Anthropology Fund

To provide flexible support for undergraduate students, education and programming in the Anthropology Department at Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ, as determined by the Chair of Anthropology Department at CU-Boulder.

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Thank you for supporting the Anthropology Department at Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder