FULLERTON

Cal State Fullerton’s $2-million Anthropology Research and Teaching Facility opens today, after four years of planning, fund-raising and construction. The grand opening festivities, beginning at 4:30 p.m. in McCarthy Hall, Room 424, coincides with the Southwestern Anthropological Assn.’s annual conference, which lasts through the weekend.

The 10,000-square-foot facility occupies the north wing of McCarthy Hall’s fourth floor and includes most of the anthropology department’s offices, laboratories and museum. It was funded in part by a $1-million National Science Foundation grant awarded to department chairwoman Susan Parman in 1995. Information: (714) 278-3626.