The department received an Institutional Development Grant of the Wenner-Gren Foundation, USA. The name of the project is Building Anthropology in Mongolia. It is a true achievement and honor for the department to win a grant from Wenner Gren, the world’s biggest and prominent foundation for anthropology. According to the announcement that appeared in the Wenner-Gren website, there were only two institutions selected, one is the Museum of Anthropology, Cordoba, Argentina,and the other is the Social and Cultural Anthropology Department, National University of Mongolia (http://www.wennergren.org/news/news_show.htm?doc_id=714673).