Va. Tech names student center for slain professor

November 10, 2009 - 11:10am

Liviu Librescu, a 76-year-old Holocaust survivor tried to barricade the door of his classroom to keep the gunman out while his students escaped through a window. (AP)

BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) - A Virginia Tech center for student collaboration in a wing that was the site of mass shootings in 2007 has been named for an engineering professor who was slain.

The school's Board of Visitors on Monday approved the engineering faculty's proposal to name the room the Dr. Liviu Librescu Student Engagement Center.

The center is one of six rooms in a renovated second-floor wing of Norris Hall, where student gunman Seung-Hui Cho killed 30 people on April 16, 2007 and then took his own life. Two others were killed in a dormitory.

Engineering Science and Mechanics Department students have been meeting in the room to work on team projects.

Alumnus Pat Artis and his wife, Nancy, provided a gift to furnish the center.

BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) - A Virginia Tech center for student collaboration in a wing that was the site of mass shootings in 2007 has been named for an engineering professor who was slain.

The school's Board of Visitors on Monday approved the engineering faculty's proposal to name the room the Dr. Liviu Librescu Student Engagement Center.

Engineering Science and Mechanics Department students have been meeting in the room to work on team projects.

Alumnus Pat Artis and his wife, Nancy, provided a gift to furnish the center.

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