Virginia Tech Student Support
Abstract
The massacre at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University on April 16, 2007 is the greatest tragedy that U.S. higher education has faced. In an attempt to help its community cope with this heartbreaking event, the university administration decided to close Norris Hall, the site of many of the shootings. This closer caused about 60 researchers and students to be displaced and without laboratories for the summer to work on their research and dissertations. Through your support six of the displaced students came to the Advanced Technology Laboratory in The Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering for approximately ten weeks so that their research was not further disrupted from the tragedy. The graduate students were each paired with a Whiting School faculty whose research interests and field of study were in line. The students worked on their current doctoral programs and the Johns Hopkins faculty helped to mentor the students. The student's ability to come to Johns Hopkins further enhanced their knowledge and fields of study and also allowed the students to not fall further behind due to the tragedy.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 2008
- Accession Number
- ADA492278
Entities
People
- Amanda Young
- Aproova Shende
- Arun Nair
- Kaliat Ramesh
- Kaushik Das
- Kevin Hemker
- Matthew Lear
- Osama Marzouk
- Takeru Igusa
- Wen Jiang
Organizations
- Johns Hopkins University