Harvey Mudd Science Center Dedication

The F.W. Olin Science Center, the new home of the Harvey Mudd College biology, mathematics and computer science departments, will be dedicated at 4 p.m. Thursday on the campus in Claremont. Tours of the $4.9-million, 25,000-square-foot building will run from 2:30 to 4 p.m.

The center will provide facilities for the expansion of the three departments. It will house a mathematics classroom, seminar room, biology research laboratories, computer laboratories and faculty offices.

Funding was provided by the F.W. Olin Foundation. Since 1951, the foundation has funded construction of 62 buildings on 49 college and university campuses throughout the country. The foundation usually awards only two building grants each year following a competition in which about 60 schools participate.

Harvey Mudd, one of the five Claremont Colleges, is an undergraduate coeducational institution of engineering, science and mathematics that also emphasizes humanities and the social sciences.