Pitt announced Friday that graduate student Megan L. Dietz was found dead in a Ruskin Hall… Pitt announced Friday that graduate student Megan L. Dietz was found dead in a Ruskin Hall apartment on Thursday.
Dietz, 24, was a Ph.D. student in biological sciences in Pitt’s School of Arts and Sciences.
The coroner’s office determined her cause of death to be a massive pulmonary embolism – blockage of an artery in the lungs – that was the result of a blood clot in her leg that moved up to her lungs.
She died on Sept. 8, at 9:10 a.m.
Ruskin Hall is a University-owned apartment building, located near the Cathedral of Learning. It’s designed to house medical students and Ph.D. candidates.
In a release from the Office of Public Affairs, a representative of the University wrote, “Our thoughts are with her family during this time of loss. We extend our deepest sympathies to her loved ones and her friends and colleagues.”
Read The Pitt News later this week for a memorial to Dietz.
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