Virginia Tech Civil Engineering Measures Its Losses
The April 16 massacre of 32 students and faculty at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University in Blacksburg, Va., better known as Virginia Tech, took a heavy toll on the university’s civil and environmental engineering department. A star professor and numerous students died.
Randel L. Dymond, a department associate professor, confirmed April 19 “in between funerals this morning” the deaths of veteran professor G.V. Loganathan, who was teaching Advanced Hydrology, as well as those of a doctoral candidate, six graduate students and one undergraduate. Dymond said a biological systems engineering graduate student taking the class was also killed.