Pulitzer Prize winner for the book "Guns, Germs and Steel" will

speak at Harvey Mudd College on Thursday Oct. 23.

Jared Diamond is taking on the subject "Collapse: How Socities Choose to Fail or Succeed."

Diamond, who won the Pulitzer in 1998, will speak from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Galileo Hall as part of Bruce J. Nelson's Distinguished Speaker Series on "Biology and the Environment: Past, Present and Future."

Harvey Mudd College is at 301 Platt Boulevard but the Galileo is located near E. Foothill Blvd. near N. Dartmouth Ave.

Information: 909- 621-8011