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Scholarship is created to honor WU alumnus who died in shooting

A scholarship has been set up in honor of the 1977 Washington University alumnus Adriel Johnson, the University of Alabama at Huntsville professor who was killed in a campus shooting in February. In commemoration of Johnson’s death, the students at the Alabama school have established the scholarship to honor him and the other victims of the shooting. The Dr. Adriel D. Johnson, Sr.

Megan Nager | Contributing Reporter

WU alum is among the dead in Alabama college shooting

Adriel Johnson, 52, graduated from Washington University in 1979 and continued to have an impact on the lives of the individuals he encountered until the day he died. Johnson, an associate professor of biology from Tuskegee, Ala., was one of three professors killed in Friday’s shootings at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH).

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