African American Alumni Alliance is born at WSU
robert.franklin
The WSU African American Alumni Alliance begins in fall of 1991 during the planning of that year’s first Black Student Reunion.
WSU researchers receive grant to purchase a low-grade nuclear reactor
Brian Clark
In September 1953, Dean S. Town Stephenson and a dozen science colleagues began planning to acquire a low-grade nuclear reactor for research. They received a $300,000 grant to construct a building to hold a swimming pool type reactor. In 1957 the Atomic Energy Commission gave $105,000 to purchase the equipment. In 1961, the WSU nuclear research program completes its first chain reaction.
