An engineering professor at Pennsylvania State University’s main campus collapsed in front of his class on Tuesday morning and later died, the university announced Wednesday.
Michael J. Horman, a 38-year-old associate professor of architectural engineering and native of Australia, was an expert in the design and construction of environmentally sound green buildings. He had been the director of the Lean and Green Research Initiative, which sought methods to reduce the cost of sustainable construction, and he had been an editor at the Journal of Green Building and the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Journal of Construction Engineering and Management.
The university did not announce a cause of death. Mr. Horman leaves a wife and two children.
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3 Responses to A Green-Building Expert Dies After Collapsing in Front of Class
slpprof - September 17, 2009 at 4:32 pm
It’s upsetting to see a story about a tragic death reported so sloppily. I would have expected better copy-editing from the Chronicle.
12076771 - September 17, 2009 at 8:16 pm
Thanks for the heads-up. The missing word was my fault — I was editing on the fly.– Lawrence Biemiller
wallison - September 18, 2009 at 11:21 am
It’s a blog post. Not the Chronicle proper.