Julia Pryde

Julia Pryde, 23, was a graduate student in biological systems engineering from Middletown, N.J. She wrote a proposal to have the school cafeteria stop throwing waste in a landfill and start recycling it as compost.

She was studying watershed management in mountainous regions to help improve water quality. She was killed in an advanced hydrology class, along with a professor she much admired, G.V. Loganathan.