25 years

From Iowa City Press Citizen Nov. 1, 1991: The day a university shooting rampage shocked Iowa http://dmreg.co/2eDxjb0 First of two partsIOWA CITY, Ia. — Room 309 is empty on a fall afternoon, 25 years after the murders. Chairs ring a long conference table, and sunlight slants across the room. One can peer in and imagine busy professors and post-doctoral researchers settling in for their Friday afternoon space physics theorists group, hauling along coffee and papers.That day, Nov. 1, 1991, Gang Lu came down the narrow hallway of Van Allen Hall, named after professor James Van Allen, who discovered the planet’s radiation belts and brought the space physics department at the University of Iowa a fame that lured the leading scientists in the world. It attracted Lu from China, where he was considered among its finest physics students.