During the last year, as steel beams reached from the earth to support concrete, limestone and glass, the college’s worldclass, interdisciplinary science complex moved from vision toward reality. Those beams soon will support innovative, nationally recognized science programs that recently have won grants from such organizations as the National Science Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Those limestone walls will house science majors who now make up 20 percent of Dickinson’s student body and have earned Fulbright, Goldwater and Udall scholarships.

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