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Virginia Massacre
Updated:
NRI
professor, Dr. G.V. Loganathan killed at Virginia Massacre
BLACKSBURG, Virginia, April 17, 2007
Prof. Ramesh Patel
NRI professor, Dr. G.V. Loganathan, 51,
was teaching in a class at Norris Hall, Virginia Tech
when a gunman went on the rampage. He was among those
killed in the shooting at a Virginia university which
left 33 people dead.
Loganathan received his bachelor's degree
from Madras University. Prof Loganathan was in the top
five in his year when he obtained his masters degree
from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology,
Kanpur, in northern India. He got his doctorate from
Purdue University. He won several teaching awards, including
the university’s 2006 W.E. Wine Award for Excellence
in Teaching as well as a best-professor award voted
on by students.
Dr. Loganathan was born in the southern
Indian city of Chennai, a native of Karattadipalayam
in nearby Erode district. He had been a civil and environmental
engineering professor at Virginia Tech since 1982. He
had served on the faculty senate and was an adviser
to about 75 undergraduate students.
According to Roanoke Times, the students
said, Indian professor was always approachable, humble,
kind and always willing to talk over an engineering
problem, no matter what time of day.
"There were many nights when we’d stay up
all night together so he could give me guidance with
reports or papers for conference," said Craig Moore,
a Virginia Tech doctoral student who was one of Loganathan’s
advisees and friends.
"He was so devoted to his students, he would teach
a full load throughout the regular year and then during
the summer too," Moore added.
Ajit Pal Singh Raina president of Indian Students Association
at University told media that there are about 700 members,
making it the largest foreign body on campus. We had
contacted most of the Indian student community and hope
no student is involve in the shooting
Dr. Loganathan is survived by his wife, Usha, and two
daughters. One daughter, Uma, an engineering student
at The University of Virginia and another daughter who
is a student at Blacksburg Middle School. The whole
family stays on the campus in Blacksburg.
He had expressed his wish to his wife that his body
should be buried in the university campus, if anything
untoward happened to him in Virginia.
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