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Prior days' news: By date | Search This week's print issue Back issues: By date | Search April 19, 2007Julia PrydeJulia Pryde, 23, was so passionate about her studies in biological-systems engineering that she often dragged prospective high-school students and their parents to the department chairman. “Quite often I’d come back to my office to find her and a family she recruited waiting for me,” says the chairman, Saied Mostaghimi. Ms. Pryde had earned her bachelor’s degree in May and stayed at Virginia Tech to work on her master’s. Mr. Mostaghimi suspects that one day she would have returned for a Ph.D. as well, but probably not before she headed to Africa or South America to put her skills to use. Her goal was to help underdeveloped regions of the world create clean-water systems.  Facebook.com “She was realistic enough to know how to take action on the issues she cared about,” says Mary Leigh Wolfe, her adviser. Ms. Pryde had developed a plan for the university to compost food waste generated in the dining halls, instead of sending it to landfills. “She didn’t just sit back and say that something should be done,” Ms. Wolfe says. “She would figure out a way to do it.” Originally from Middletown, N.J., Ms. Pryde was a competitive swimmer growing up and played on community softball teams. Beyond the classroom, she was active in a Blacksburg community nonprofit organization called Seek Education, Explore, DiScover, a youth-education organization that allowed her to share her love of science, nature, and the outdoors with children. But it was her distinctive laugh that most people will find hard to forget. “It was a booming belly laugh,” Ms. Wolfe says. “She felt things fully.” —Erin Strout Posted on Thursday April 19, 2007 | Permalink |Comments |
May her soul rest in perfect peace in the bossom of father Abraham- American Government should not allow this to happen again – students should not be allowed to handle dangerous warpons – look at what has happened now – let’s be mindful of what we do.
From: Mr&Mrs. Asiedu – Accra, Ghana
— Pierre Asiedu Apr 23, 08:28 AM #