The Hampton University Proton Therapy Institute, which cost $225 million, opened in 2010 as the eighth such cancer therapy center in the country and the only one in the region. Roughly 20 other centers have opened across the country since then.
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End of an era
Hampton University President William R. ‘Bill’ Harvey is stepping down June 30 after 44 years at the helm
Hampton University, one of the nation’s first historically black institutions, was a small struggling four-year college on the banks of the Hampton River near the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay when an ambitious, young Dr. William R. “Bill” Harvey Jr. from Tuskegee Institute in Alabama was chosen as president of the institution.
