Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Virginia Tech, Inspired by Librescu, Recruits More Scholars From Abroad

(Bloomberg) -- Long before the world learned about Liviu Librescu as a hero who saved students' lives in a campus shooting rampage, he was a world-renowned engineering professor.

Librescu, 76, was one of more than 500 foreign-born teachers and researchers at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia. He died along with 31 other staff members and students who were shot by Seung-Hui Cho, a mentally ill student, on April 16 in the deadliest shooting in American history.


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