The Cerenkov Blue
When UVA went nuclear
In 1960, UVA was on the vanguard of the emerging field of nuclear energy. Then came Three Mile Island.
Topic: Academics
In 1960, UVA was on the vanguard of the emerging field of nuclear energy. Then came Three Mile Island.
Hadley, a Tar Heel and Rhodes Scholar, leaves Wash U. to succeed Lampkin.
For 30 years, UVA’s scrambling Pep Band managed to stay one punchline ahead of the authorities.
Amid the fervor of the Great War, UVA rid itself of a journalism school, and the pacifist it rode in on.
UVA appoints a new group to reassess names and memorials on Grounds and another to reaffirm free speech principles.