A contingent of a dozen UW-Madison engineering faculty and students is safe after visiting the Virginia Tech campus on the same day of what’s being called the worst shooting spree in U.S. history.
From his room at a conference facility on the Virgina Tech campus, UW-Madison Electrical Engineering professor Tom Lipo told 27 News the contingent included three faculty members and nine students. Lipo said at the time of the campus shootings, the students were in a building close to Norris Hall, where the majority of the fatal victims were shot. “He (the gunman) could have wandered in there. But our students are safe.”