Virginia Tech Tragedy: The Lives Lost

From the freshman with a "luminous smile" to the hero Holocaust survivor who helped save his students' lives, see the portraits of the victims

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JULIA PRYDE, 23

Pryde, a graduate student studying biological-systems engineering, had a special interest in mountain development and wildfire management. The Middletown, N.J., native traveled to South America last summer to conduct research in the Andes. Wrote Dr. Theo Dillaha in an e-mail to her department: "She always had a smile and thoroughly enjoyed life."