Columbia University administrators announced a student, who just came to the school earlier this month, died tragically in a kayaking trip over the weekend.
A family and community are left devastated after a young student, who traveled from Ireland to theElla Mills, who was studying at Columbia University inas part of a dual BA program with Trinity College Dublin in Ireland, joined the university’s Whitewater Kayaking Club on a kayaking trip on the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., Sunday afternoon. She never returned.
"Words cannot express how heartbroken I feel for her family, her friends, her loved ones, and those students from the University who were with her on this trip," Columbia University's President Minouche Shafik said in a letter. and into Maryland on Sunday afternoon.
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