A N.C. A&T junior died in Kumasi, Ghana, Tuesday. Autopsy reports are not available for 21-year-old Julia Scott of Winston-Salem, who was a honor student, majoring in mechanical engineering.

In February, Scott left the university for a semester-long, engineering internship at the University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana, on the western coast of Africa. Since 1995, with the assistance of ALCOA, A&T has had a collaborative engineering exchange program with the university in Kumasi. Over 30 students, faculty and administrators from A&T have participated in this program with a dozen students from Kumasi.

“Our hearts certainly go out to the Scott Family and to the College of Engineering,” said Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Roselle Wilson. “We are working very closely with the U.S. Embassy and the appropriate international agencies to assist the family with all the necessary protocol.”

Chancellor James C. Renick said, “We are all deeply saddened by this news. The University stands behind the Scott Family to support them in whatever way possible.”

A&T’s counselors are available for students, faculty and staff. A campus/community memorial service for Scott and other A&T students who have died this academic year will be held at 5 p.m., March 22, in the Stallings Ballroom of Memorial Union.

• From a press release