Caroline Merrey, 22, Parkville, Md. Caroline Merrey still sends e-mail messages to former classmates who, like her, escaped from Liviu Librescu's class April 16. Now that she has graduated and moved to take a job in Chicago, Merrey said, "I feel like I'm kind of on a different planet out here. A lot of them are still back in Virginia.
Livin Librescu was a distinguished engineering professor at Virginia Tech. He courageously barred the door as students fled his classroom Monday. If you were lucky enough to have a choice, there were only two ways to go on the campus of Virginia Tech on Monday morning: away from danger or toward it. Engineering professor Liviu Librescu chose the second option, saved a classroom full of students and became a hero - at the cost of his life.
BLACKSBURG, Va. -- Her back still aching from jumping from a second-floor classroom window to avoid being shot, Caroline Merrey knelt before a memorial to Professor Liviu Librescu -- the teacher who barred the door with his own body and helped make her escape possible. In a way, Merrey was glad for the pain. It's another reminder that she's alive.
Monday morning. Second floor. Norris Hall. In Room 207, Mr. Bishop's German class is under way. A few doors down, Prof. Librescu is posting slides for his engineering students in 204. Outside, the Virginia Tech campus is gray and chilly, but pretty normal for a Monday. It couldn't have been much more normal," said Richard Mallalieu, one of Liviu Librescu's students.
, Liviu Librescu, es el profesor israelí quien trabó la puerta del aula con su cuerpo y evitó el ingreso de Cho Seung-Hui, Redacción/ El Comercio Newspaper
When Dr. [Gabriel Oyibo], perhaps best known for his remarkable discovery of the unified field theorem that baffled even the great Albert Einstein, heard that his friend was one of the victims at Virginia Tech, he immediately conveyed his condolences. It was in 1985 when Professor [Liviu Librescu] led a delegation to Germany to meet Dr. Oyibo, who was there to deliver a lecture on aeronautics. This was the beginning of a friendship of two scientists who shared a mutual understanding of quantum mechanics and theoretical physics. In fact, Professor Librescu was among the first prominent scientists to acknowledge Dr. Oyibo's successful formulation of the unified field theorem or, "the theory of everything.
Noble: Liviu Librescu, a Virginia Tech professor who gave his life to safe those of his students. Tragedy often produces great acts of bravery and Monday's massacre at Virginia Tech is no exception. In the face of danger, some students barricaded classroom doors, others used the clothes off their backs to bandage wounds and one quick-thinker made a makeshift tourniquet out of an electrical cord. But the selfless and heroic actions of Professor Liviu Librescu deserve special notice.
LIKE COUNTLESS Americans, I spent many hours last week in front of my television, watching accounts of the horrific massacre at Virginia Tech. As a college professor, I wonder whether it could happen on my own campus, and I run through a mental checklist of how I would respond. Would I have had the courage of Professor Liviu Librescu, shot while trying to keep the gunman out of his classroom? More personally, as a mother, I flash back to the spring day four years ago when a bomb went off at my son's university. Happily, no one was hurt, but just knowing how close my son and his friends came to getting killed makes me shake still.
About two dozen people gathered Sunday afternoon to dedicate a Torah that was donated to Virginia Tech in honor of the late professor Liviu Librescu. Librescu was one of 33 people, including gunman Seung-Hui Cho, who were killed during the April 16, 2007, shootings on campus.
Recipients of the 2007 Ina Kay Awards are, from left to right: Marilena Librescu, widow of honoree [LIVIU LIBRESCU]; Albert and Tish Galvan, parents of honoree [DAVID RITCHESON]; honoree [EUGENE SAYLES]; and honoree Bujar Veselaj. Credit: Carl Cox.
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