Police in Vermont are searching for a college student who has been missing since last week.
Lia Smith, a 21-year-old senior at Middlebury College, was reported missing on Sunday and hasn’t been seen since around 9 p.m. Friday when she vanished from a building on campus.
The Middlebury Campus, the school’s student newspaper, reported this week that Smith’s father filed a missing persons report when she didn’t respond to his calls.
The Middlebury Police Department said the search is active and that they’re “working to identify additional potential search areas” to locate the California native.
“We will do everything we can to find Lia,” Middlebury officials said in a statement to the school community. “She is a beloved member of our Middlebury family and there is nothing more important than the health, safety and wellbeing of our students and of our entire community.”
The school said it was speaking with Smith’s family and friends to learn all they can about her recent activities and whereabouts. Counseling services are also being made available to the campus community.
Smith is described by police as being 5-foot-11 and around 160 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes.
According to The Middlebury Campus, she’s a double computer science and statistics major, a member of the chess and women in computer science clubs, and competed on the school’s swimming and diving team.
