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68-536: A modernist brutalist style. Harvey Mudd College was founded in 1955. Classes began in 1957 with a class of 48 students, 7 faculty and one building–Mildred E. Mudd Hall, a dormitory. Classes and meals took place at Claremont Men's College ( Claremont McKenna College ), and labs in the Baxter Science Building until additional buildings could be built: Jacobs Science Building (1959), Thomas-Garett Hall (1961) and Platt Campus Center (1963). By 1966,

102-577: A computer memory (RAM) technology Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts , or Historical Manuscripts Commission Hamiltonian Monte Carlo Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title HMC . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HMC&oldid=1166238857 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

136-765: A memorial cannon from Fleming House at Caltech (originally from the National Guard ) by dressing as maintenance people and carting it off on a flatbed truck for "cleaning". The students eventually returned the cannon after Caltech threatened to take legal action. In 2006, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) replicated the prank and moved the same cannon to their campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts . Notable Harvey Mudd College alumni include: 34°06′22″N 117°42′33″W  /  34.10608°N 117.70919°W  / 34.10608; -117.70919 Cyprus Mines Corporation The Cyprus Mines Corporation

170-553: A relief fund along with their agent to help former business associates get out of Germany. Long strikes took place in 1948, organized by the Pancyprian Federation of Labour and the Turkish Cypriot trade unions. After extending the initial five-day strike, the union asked for government intervention. The government declared that they could not start an inquiry since wages were not substandard. As of 1955,

204-512: A social impact course. Its most popular majors, by 2023 graduates, were: In 2018, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported that in response to student "complaints first to mental-health counsellors and then to outside evaluators," the college was "considering how to ease pressure on students without sacrificing rigour." For the class of 2026, the college received 4,440 applications and admitted 593 applicants (a 13.4% acceptance rate). Of

238-491: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Harvey Mudd College The college was funded by the friends and family of Harvey Seeley Mudd , one of the initial investors in the Cyprus Mines Corporation . Although involved in the planning of the new institution, Mudd died before it opened in 1955. The campus was designed by Edward Durell Stone in

272-512: Is the northernmost HMC inner dorm. The fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth dorms built are Atwood, Case, Linde, Sontag, and Drinkware, respectively. They were initially referred to as "the colonies" by some students, a reference to the fact that they were newer and at the farthest end of the campus; these dorms are now more commonly referred to as "the outer dorms", with the four directional dorms referred to as "the inner dorms". The college had initially purchased an apartment building adjacent to

306-978: The Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Stags and Athenas (CMS). The teams participate in NCAA Division III in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC). The mascot for the men's teams is Stanley the Stag, and the women's teams are the Athenas. Their colours are cardinal and gold. According to the Division III Fall Learfield Director's Cup Standings for the 2016-2017 year, CMS ranks 12th among all Division III programs, and first among SCIAC colleges. The other sports combination of

340-582: The Nazi military, at a time before the war when Germany traded for resources with many countries, the owner of the mine argued that stopping those exports would have adversely affected Cyprus. David Sievert Lavender (1962). The story of the Cyprus Mines Corporation . San Marino, CA: Huntington Library. p. 264. LCCN   61014054 . They were, however, disturbed by Hitler's policy of Jewish persecution, and in late 1938, CMC established

374-710: The Sierrita copper and molybdenum mine near Tucson, Arizona . In July 1988, Cyprus Minerals bought the Inspiration mine and smelting complex in Miami, Arizona . With the expiry of an agreement to purchase electricity at a favorable rate from the Salt River Project , Cyprus Minerals installed an ISASMELT furnace in its copper smelter. This was the first large-scale installation of the ISASMELT process, which

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408-406: The survey stakes exactly six inches in one direction. "East" was the first dorm, but it wasn't until "West" was built west of it that it was actually referred to as "East". Then, "North" was built, directly north of "East". When the fourth dorm, Marks Hall, was built, there was one corner of the quad available (the northwest) and one directional name, "South", remaining. To this day, "South" dorm

442-466: The tailings , waste left over from processing ore, are a problem, although in Cyprus' case they were also a boon. The discovery and analysis of copper tailings left on Cyprus by Romans had been important factors in the founding of the company and the modern economic development of Cyprus. As of 2006, there are no plans to clean up the tailings. As the company did while it operated, Cyprus prefers to retain

476-464: The 237 freshmen who enrolled, the middle 50% of SAT scores reported were 760–790 in mathematics and 720–770 in reading and writing, while the ACT Composite range was 34–36. Harvey Mudd, along with Wake Forest University , long held out as the last four-year colleges or universities in the U.S. to accept only SAT and not ACT test scores for admission. In August 2007, at the beginning of

510-711: The Claremont Colleges, and CMS' primary rival, is the team made up of Pomona College and Pitzer College known as the Pomona–Pitzer Sagehens (PP). This is known to students as the Sixth Street Rivalry. The California Institute of Technology (Caltech), another university with strength in the natural sciences and engineering, is located 26 miles (42 km) away from Harvey Mudd College. Mudders occasionally amuse themselves by pranking Caltech. For example, in 1986, students from Mudd stole

544-472: The Mudds, were the primary owners of Cyprus Mines until the early 1970s when it was sold to Amoco. Initially the mine struggled, but eventually obstacles were overcome and the mine produced money. Turkish and Greek Cypriots were hired, and the town of Skouriotissa became a hub as many miners moved there. The corporation took an old-style, paternalistic attitude towards workers, building a company town around

578-445: The U.S. based on its contribution to the public good, as measured by social mobility, research, and promoting public service. Money magazine ranked Harvey Mudd 136th out of 744 in its "Best Colleges For Your Money 2019" report. In U.S. News & World Report 's 2021 "America's Best Colleges" report, Harvey Mudd College is tied for the 25th best U.S. liberal arts college, is second among undergraduate engineering schools in

612-559: The U.S. whose highest degree is a Master's, and is ranked as tied for sixth "Most Innovative School" among 50 liberal arts colleges evaluated. Forbes in 2019 rated it 23rd in its "America's Top Colleges" ranking of 650 military academies, national universities and liberal arts colleges. In 2021, Harvey Mudd's total annual cost of attendance (tuition, fees, and room and board) was $ 82,236. About 70% of freshmen receive financial aid. Athletes from Harvey Mudd compete alongside athletes from Claremont McKenna College and Scripps College as

646-462: The Wart" is an anthropomorphic concrete wart. In 2013, Travel and Leisure named the college as one of "America's ugliest college campuses" and noted that while Stone regarded his design as a " Modernist masterpiece", the result was "layering drab, slab-sided buildings with Beaux-Arts decoration." The official names for the academic buildings of Harvey Mudd College are: The official names for

680-542: The application process for the class of 2012, HMC began accepting ACT results, a year after Wake Forest abandoned its former SAT-only policy. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Harvey Mudd waived the requirement for SAT or ACT scores for the graduating classes of 2021 or 2022. This policy was extended to the classes of 2023 and 2024. The college is need-blind for domestic applicants. Washington Monthly ranked Harvey Mudd fifth in 2020 among 218 liberal arts colleges in

714-478: The campus had grown to 283 students and 43 faculty. Under the presidency of Maria Klawe as of 2006, Harvey Mudd became a leading advocate for women in STEM in higher education. In April 2017, all classes were cancelled for two days in response to tensions on campus over workload, race issues, and mistrust of faculty. Contributing events included the deaths of two Mudd students and a Scripps student that year and

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748-571: The company's copper mines on Cyprus had become the island's largest industry, exporting nearly a million tons of copper a year. Mudd's copper mines on Cyprus supported 2,000 of the island's inhabitants and provided more than 25 percent of the island's entire annual revenue. Cyprus Mines paid its employees 15–20 percent above the island average. The company ran an up-to-date, 65-bed hospital for its employees, built scores of low-cost houses for them to live in, and helped to run schools, sports clubs, welfare centers, and summer camps for their families. One of

782-452: The dormitories of Harvey Mudd College are (listed in order of construction): Until the addition of the Linde and Sontag dorms, Atwood and Case dorms were occasionally referred to as New Dorm and New Dorm II; Mildred E. Mudd Hall and Marks Hall are almost invariably referred to as East Dorm and South Dorm. During the construction of Case Dorm some students decided as a prank to move all of

816-485: The government of the Republic of Cyprus . Over 30 copper deposits, ranging in size from 50,000 to over 20,000,000 tonnes, with grades from 0.3 to 4.5 percent copper have been discovered with most of the mining activity been centered on the following districts: A few isolated deposits have also been found at Troulli Mine ( Larnaca ), Mangaleni ( Limassol ), Peravasa (Limassol) and Vretchia ( Paphos ). As in most mines,

850-491: The leak of the Wabash Report on teaching, learning, and workload at Mudd. On July 1, 2023, Harriet Nembhard became the sixth President of Harvey Mudd College. The original buildings of the campus, designed by Edward Durell Stone and completed in 1959, feature "knobbly concrete squares that students of Harvey Mudd affectionately call "warts" and use as hooks for skateboards." The school's unofficial mascot "Wally

884-523: The mine is a growing issue for Cypriot environmentalists and NGOs . According to the Climate Accountability Institute , Cyprus Amax was responsible for 0.1% of global industrial greenhouse gas emissions up to 2017. In 1979 Cyprus Mines Corporation was acquired by Amoco Corporation . Amoco expanded Cyprus into a diversified worldwide mining company. Amoco spun off Cyprus Minerals Company in 1985. In 1986, Cyprus acquired

918-474: The mine. Harvey Seeley Mudd claimed his experience with the Cyprus Mines Corporation influenced him to push the study of humanities in the engineering college he started, Harvey Mudd College . The Cyprus Mines Corporation provided copper to Nazi Germany right up until the start of the World War II . Although the company knew that some of its copper sales to Germany would be used to produce weapons for

952-704: The newer dorms to house additional students, but it was demolished to make room for Sontag. Since any HMC student, regardless of class year, can live in any of the dormitories, several of the dorms have accumulated long-standing traditions and so-called "personalities". HMC offers four-year degrees in chemistry , mathematics , physics , computer science , biology , and engineering , interdisciplinary degrees in mathematical and computational biology, and joint majors in computer science and mathematics; computer science and physics; physics and mathematics; and biology and chemistry. Students may also elect an Individual Program of Study (IPS) or an off-campus major offered by any of

986-644: The operating mines and the company's processing plant fell north of the cease-fire line in Northern Cyprus following the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974, whilst the rest of the company's mines were the other side of the Green Line . Given this insurmountable problem, the Cyprus Mines Corporation pulled out of Cyprus and the Mavrovouni mine and processing plant remained in an area not controlled by

1020-407: The other Claremont Colleges, provided one also completes a minor in one of the technical fields that Harvey Mudd offers as a major. All HMC students are required to take the college's Common Core Curriculum, typically throughout their freshman and sophomore years. This includes courses in computer science, engineering, biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, writing, a critical inquiry course, and

1054-468: The past economic benefits of mining without spending funds on environmental remediation , particularly with no more income from the mines nor the use of the polluted land surrounding those mines, asserting that modern Cyprus has no way to pay for the cleanup. Local farmers claim that citrus crop yields have been reduced by contaminated dust blowing in. Studies of local fruit have found high heavy metal levels and decreased fruit size and quality. The effect of

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1122-568: Was an early twentieth century American mining company based in Cyprus . In 1914, Charles G. Gunther began prospecting in the Skouriotissa area after reading in ancient books that the island was rich in copper and noticing promising ancient Roman slag heaps in the area. The company was established in 1916 by Colonel Seeley W. Mudd , his son, Harvey Seeley Mudd , and mining engineer/business partner, Philip Wiseman, whose family, along with

1156-600: Was developed jointly by Mount Isa Mines Limited and the Australian government's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (" CSIRO "). In 1993, AMAX merged with the Cyprus Minerals Company to form Cyprus Amax Minerals Company. Cyprus-Amax was the world's leading producer of molybdenum and lithium, and a leading producer of copper and coal. The company had operations in 24 states and on six continents. In late 1999, Cyprus Amax Minerals

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