| Names |
Gobichettipalayam Vasudevan (G.V.) LOGANATHAN |
| Date of
Birth |
April 08, 1954 |
| Date of
Death |
April 16, 2007: He taught an Advanced Hydrology
class in Norris Hall's Room 206. On this day, Seung-Hui Cho entered
Norris 206 and opened fire; Loganathan was Cho's first target. Of
the fifteen registered students in Loganathan's class, nine were
killed and two more were injured. He was among the 32 people killed by
Seung-Hui Cho in the Virginia Tech shootings on April 16, 2007. |
| Identity |
Indian-born
American professor, who, at the time of his death, was a
professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental
engineering, part of the College of Engineering at Virginia
Tech, United States. |
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Date-wise Events / Works |
- 1996: American Society of
Civil Engineers Wesley W. Horner Award in 1996 for his paper
Sizing Stormwater Detention Basins for Pollutant Removal.
- 1996: American Water
Resources Association Best Graduate Paper Award 1996 for the
paper An Early Warning System for Drought Management Using
The Palmer Drought Index he co-authored with his PhD student
V.K. Lohani.
- 2006: Virginia Tech Academy
of Teaching Excellence W.E. Wine Award.
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