Caltech Gets $40-Million for Research Institute from Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation.

The article reports that the California Institute of Technology has received $40 million from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation for the establishment of a center on interdisciplinary research in biology and chemistry. Arnold O. Beckman, president of the foundation, received his doctorate degree from the university in 1928 and taught there until 1940. He was also chairman of the board of trustees from 1964 to 1974.