Unfortunately Engineering Professors never get their proper due in life…
Professor G V Loganathan of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering was teaching in a class in the Norris Hall – one of the crime scenes – when the gunman went on rampage.
His colleague Prof Raman Kumar confirmed the news of Loganathan’s death to CNN-IBN.
According to Raman, Loganathan was taking a lecture when the second shooting occurred. He was killed around 0915 hrs (local time), Raman confirmed.
When CNN-IBN contacted a shaken Raman, he was at Lognathan’s residence and said he got the confirmation from the authorities at the University. [Link]
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If you click on the picture above it will take you to a video clip of reporters in India going into more detail about the Professor.
Loganathan first became a member of the Virginia Tech community in 1982 and has since earned several honors, including the Outstanding Faculty Award, the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, and Faculty Achievement Award for Excellence in Civil Engineering Education. Loganathan has also served the academic community as a member of the faculty senate, a counselor on the honor court, and as associate editor of the Journal of Hydrologic Engineering.
Loganathan received his bachelor’s degree from Madras University, his master’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, and his doctorate from Purdue University. [Link]
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p>I went to “Rate My Professor” to learn about Loganathan from the student’s perspective. Just one rating there:
He is God of his subjects… [Link]
And let him be remembered that way.
So terrible. What kind of a jerk does something like this.
peace & respect.
From a fellow boilermaker, Peace.
Everlasting be his memory.
May his soul rest in peace.
I lost my father when I was very young and am saddened to think of what Professor Loganathan’s wife and children are going through. Hope they will get lots of support from the community.
My thoughts and prayers are with him and his family. Thank you, SM, for having this community to respect Professor Loganathan.
So sad and senseless.
May his soul rest in peace.
RIP.
hairy_d, do you really work on boilers? Please email me!
“Lead me from the unreal to the Real; Lead me from darkness to Light; Lead me from death to Immortality.” –Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
may he be led to Immortality through his beloved memory. my thoughts and prayers to all people in pain wherever they may be.
As someone who has handled students in grad school before, that comment on RMP means A LOT. May his soul rest in peace.
Condolences to his family. May God give them strength to cope.
So sad. My best wishes for his family.
Hard working teacher, never met you and will never know, How you worked so hard helping so many people grow, Moved from desi land, to the strange American creature, May your teachings live on, hard working teacher.
Thoughts and prayers to his family.
my condolences to his family and may god help us all
It is so sad to lose a dedicated Professor, mentor and model citizen. Hope his family, friends and students find courage and strength during this difficult time.
Peace and respect, Professor.
Rest in Peace. 🙁
Abhi….
I have taken to task many at time the posts of you and your mutineers. However, today….I shall step back and commend your ‘motely crew’ for the touching and empowering coverage of the VTech massacre.
May we treasure their time on this land, and hope to rise up to meet their expectaions in us all. peace….
dash
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and not just him – everyone else who died as well!
yes what kind of nutters do this sort of thing? are they inspired by the history of school shootings? going down with a bang?
i hope they don’t start crossing the atlantic.
Abhi: I was a student of Civil Engineering back in late Sixties on US campus working for my Masters and was also a Teaching Assistant for Grad students. I was so saddened by the death of Professor Logannathan. One of the fellow who works for me currently was his student at Virginia Tech and has nothing but great praise for the Professor. May GOD rest his soul in Peace and give his family strength to finish the journey!!
Thoughts and prayers to Prof. Loganathan’s departed soul and his family.
Rest in Peace Professor Loganathan
Sonia, such things happen in the UK too, in the last twenty years there have been two incidents like this, at Hungerford and Dunblane — sadly you could never say that it might not happen again on this side of the pond.
RIP
Interesting how his last name can be translated to “lord of the world,” directly paralleling the quote that was left. He must have definitely had an impact on his students.
Thoughts and prayers for the victims and their families. May the survivors find hope to keep on going during this difficult time.
My respectful condolences to Prof. Loganathan’s family as well as everyone else who was affected by yesterday’s tragedy.
Three posts on this topic on SM, two complaining about racism and one highlighting one of the victims solely because of his race.
Utterly distasteful.
Yes. Because he was desi. And this blog focuses on everything to do with THAT, it always has. How else would we have covered it?
If anything is disgraceful here, it is negativity on a thread dedicated to the memory of an amazing educator, whose family and friends will quite probably find this post one day. If they do, I hope they dwell on the words of comfort offered by those who focused on the loss of such an apparently amazing Professor, father, husband and not your problems with us.
This man could have been my Father; losing a parent is a nightmare I wish on no one, but to lose one like this…I want to weep for his loved ones. It’s so heart-breaking.
Again, my prayers are with the families of those who were lost in this senseless tragedy. With violence so random, it could have been any of us. May those who were affected find peace.
Condolences and prayers for all the families in this tragedy.
I dont know if thas has been posted already but there is a list of confirmed deceased. Another desi name shows up, Reema Samaha Centreville, Va. Freshman
Oh gosh. My thoughts and best wishes with the family and all those that are dealing with this. This hurts being this far away I can’t even imagine how hard it is on the local town and the people affected.
29 needs to be deleted period!!
Nada, guess what? This is an ethnic-interest blog. The whole point of this site is to approach contemporary issues of culture and society from an ethnic-interest point of view. In so doing, we sometimes encounter areas where the very concept of ethnic-interest becomes problematic or up for debate. This is good. However, to ask us to not take our first look through an ethnic-interest lens is to obviate the entire purpose of this site. If you don’t like the purpose of this site, you don’t have to read it. Thank you, and that is all I have to say on the topic.
Siddhartha,
I understand. But I hoped that for one day all victims would be seen as equals, and not one more important to SM readership than others only because he is desi.
Nada
Nada, this is a blog that is based on brown identity, bring posts with a desi angle. If you go to an African American blog, and they highlight an African American who had died in V. Tech, you would not call on them as being discriminating on race. I do not think Anna was mean or ignorant of people who are not desi. This is a tragedy for everyone. I do not mind her highlighting a South Asian aspect, like I would not mind authors highlighting a Asian/Middle Eastern/ Black/Hispanic/Jewish aspect in other blogs.
The key is that we properly mourn the people who died in this horrible tragedy. I don’t think now is the time to quarrel about how the post sounds like, instead we should pay respects to the victims lost in this tragedy.
Correction: Abhi wrote this post. Sorry, Abhi. 🙂
Jeet, I may be mistaken but Samaha is an Arabic last name.
Well said Avi. Condolences and prayers for all the families in this tragedy.
Here’s a brief excerpt from CNN’s coverage:
“do you think the fact that he was asian had something to do with this?” “absolutely jim.” “I hear there are a lot of ‘foreigners’ at this school– in fact 50% of student are INDIAN!”
WTF???
Oh, are we Asian again in America? Good to know.
Rest in peace, Professor, and my condolences to your family and friends.
Nada wrote:
I think we all appreciate your sentiment, Nada. And trust me, most of us, if not all, will be visiting other sites, reading about the other victims and feeling just as sad. One victim’s story is no more tragic than another. Our hearts go out to ALL the families.
Rest in peace, Professor.
Condolences to the professor’s family and all the families of the victims. May their souls be free.
sincerest condolences to his family and may he rest in peace.
Very sad. Many condolences to his family.
M. Nam
rest in peace Professor Loganathan.
condolences to his family.
For some reason, the main media outlets do not report the death of Prof. Loganathan, but only the other two professors who were killed.
Incorrect.
I read somewhere one of the profs was a holocaust survivor as a kid.