NEW HAVEN - Yale University has said its formal goodbyes to Annie Le, the 24-year-old graduate student found strangled last month behind a wall in a medical school building’s laboratory.
Classmates, professors, and others gathered yesterday at Yale’s historic Battell Chapel for a memorial service that was open only to members of the Yale community.
The university president, Richard Levin, remembered Le as a model student, a child of immigrants who was bright, caring, loving, and spontaneous.
Le, originally from Placerville, Calif., worked on a team that experimented on mice as part of research into enzymes that could have implications for treatment of cancer, diabetes, and muscular dystrophy.
She disappeared from the lab on Sept. 8 and her body was found five days late, on what was to have been her wedding day.
Raymond Clark III, a 24-year-old Yale University lab technician, has been charged with murder.