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Promise and Potential, Cut Short
Friends, family, teachers mourn BU grad student LU Lingzi
04.18.2013 By Rich Barlow and Susan Seligson share it! 57
LU Lingzi, Boston University, Boston Marathon terrorist attack bombing
victim
LU Lingzi (GRS’14), killed at the Boston Marathon, had a winning smile and
a talent for statistics, friends and teachers recall. Photo courtesy of
Menghan Hu (CAS’13, GRS’13)
Her life was filled with academic achievements and endless promise: the as-
yet-unfound boyfriend she had longed for, the Christianity that intrigued
her, the foods she enjoyed so much, photos of which she posted on Facebook,
and the city that drew her for study.
Last October, LU Lingzi put pictures on Facebook under the heading “New
Beginning in BU.” Alternately winsome (pursing her lips for a close-up),
happy (smiling for the camera at a table, chin propped in her hand), or just
grinning with friends or alone by a pond, her 23-year-old’s face appeared
untouched by troubles or years.
“I love the Charles River at night!” she posted exuberantly a few days
after that first photo batch. She also loved playing the online game Candy
Crush with her friend Penchan Arunrerk (SED’13).
“I plan to stop the game from now on,” Arunrerk says. “I cannot imagine
how her family would feel. I don’t know why this unlucky thing had to
happen to her.”
LU Lingzi, Boston University
Friends describe LU as optimistic and hardworking. Photo courtesy of Menghan
Hu (CAS’13, GRS’13)
That question touched off global grieving for LU (GRS’14), a graduate
student in statistics, when she was identified as one of the three killed by
blasts at the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday. Comments poured
in to BU Today following the announcement of her death, and more than 100,
000 users of Weibo, a Chinese version of Twitter, mourned her passing, the
New Yorker reports.
In a statement provided to Boston University, LU’s family wrote, “We are
grieving and at a loss for words to describe the pain and sadness we are
experiencing following the sudden passing of our dear daughter, Lingzi. She
was the joy of our lives.” The family expressed gratitude for the
assistance they have received from the Chinese government, the U.S. State
Department, the Boston Police Department, and Boston University. “We are
humbled by the compassion, caring, and love we have received from people all
over the world….We wish to extend our thoughts, prayers, and sympathy to
the other victims of this tragedy and to their families.”
The New York Times writes that LU’s Chinese hometown newspaper darkened its
website to honor a native “who passed away in a faraway place.”
Minhui Zheng recalls a classmate who tried to rise at 7 a.m. (“If she got
up at 8, she’d say, ‘I got up late.’”) and would always save Zheng a
seat in class. “She was like my speaker,” says Zheng (GRS’14). “She
always speaks everything so I didn’t need to say anything. She started to
call me Jing Jing, the name of her dog back home. She misses her dog so much
.”
Menghan Hu calls LU her ballast on difficult days of study. “I was so
stressed and worried, but she was so optimistic,” says Hu (CAS’13, GRS’13
). She also had a sweet tooth. “She always talked about ice cream,” Hu
says. “She could eat a jar by herself. She loved green tea and all the Ben
& Jerry’s flavors.”
LU was known for her unrelenting work ethic both in and out of the classroom
. Originally from Shenyang, which is described by the Times as “a rust-belt
hometown” in China, LU studied international trade at the Beijing
Institute of Technology. She came to BU to pursue statistics, where she
excelled in her classes, says Tasso Kaper, a College of Arts & Sciences
professor and chair of mathematics and statistics. The day before the
Marathon, LU learned that she had passed the first part of the master’s
comprehensive examination in statistics. An email from her showed that “she
was clearly quite pleased,” says Kaper.
LU Lingzi memorial, Marsh Plaza, Boston Marathon bombing terrorist attack
victim
Meihua Lai (CAS’16) (left) and Shuang Hao (COM’16) place flowers at an
impromptu memorial for LU Lingzi (GRS’14) at the base of the Free at Last
sculpture in Marsh Plaza on Wednesday. Hao says she felt moved by a recent
post on LU's Facebook page, which read, “If I graduate from here
successfully, I will get a good job. If I don’t, I’ll have a brave soul.”
Photo by Cydney Scott
She also played the piano, says Youming Liu (GRS’14). “She took piano
class here, even though she took four courses.”
“Clearly, LU Lingzi was in the full glory of an extremely successful year
as an MA student, with an extremely bright future ahead of her,” says Kaper
. “For us, it is a great personal and professional tragedy to learn that
such a bright and energetic young scientist has died. To make matters worse,
she had many friends in our department, in actuarial science, and in other
departments.”
Among the outpourings on Weibo, the Times reports one that poignantly
captured the human evil that cut short her life:
“You are in heaven now, where there are no bombs.”
There will be a gathering to help those who need support and further
discussion on Thursday, April 18, at 7 p.m. in the Burke Room of Agganis
Arena. Representatives from Marsh Chapel and staff from Student Health
Services Behavioral Medicine, the Dean of Students Office, and the
International Students & Scholars Office will be on hand to talk to students.
Donations to a BU memorial scholarship in LU’s name can be made here.
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