February 22, 2008

At Virginia Tech, Researchers Study the Effects of Shootings on Their Own Campus

By John Gravois

When the last television news trucks pull away from Northern Illinois University, some professors there may find themselves compelled to process the recent mass shooting in the best way they know how: by studying it.

But conducting such research in the wake of a mass trauma on your own campus presents unique and precarious challenges. Just ask researchers at Virginia Tech.

Soon after the bloody massacre last April that claimed the lives of 33 Virginia Tech

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