Fulbright Association
1100 G Street, N.W.. Suite 525 Washington, D.C. 20005
Phone: (202) 347-5543 Fax: (202) 347-6540 E-mail: fulbright@fulbright.org
Our Condolences
to the Virginia Tech Community
April 18, 2007 - The Fulbright Association sends
condolences to the families, friends, and colleagues of the victims at Virginia
Tech and to the extended Virginia Tech community. Among those lost in this
terrible tragedy was Christopher “Jamie” Bishop, an instructor of German and a
Fulbright fellow who studied at the University of Kiel in Germany in
1993-94.
Please feel free to share your condolences,
thoughts, and prayers via Virginia Tech's
April 16 Memorial
web site. The University cautions that extremely high volume on the
memorial website may cause you to experience slow performance. If you have
issues accessing the site, please click your browser's refresh button.
Romania has paid its toll in the
Virginia Tech massacre: Professor Liviu Librescu, 77 years old, was a most
prominent, revered, and endeared scholar, scientist and teacher.
Born in Bucharest, survivor of the Holocaust, in 1953 Liviu Librescu graduated
from the Polytechnical Institute in Bucharest, then taught in this institution
until the late 70s. In 1978 he emigrated in Israel, then into the US. From 1986
he served as a professor at the Virginia University, and visited Romania in
2000, when he was granted the Doctor Honoris Causa title by the Polytechnical
University in Bucharest.
On the fatidic day, Liviu Librescu protected his students with his body, by
pushing himself against the class door to prevent the attacker's entrance.
While doing so, many students were capable of saving themselves by jumping
throughout the windows. Some of them also saw their professor falling under the
bullets’ volley that penetrated the door.
