Police search for Princeton student Misrach Ewunetie, missing since last week

Misrach Ewunetie, an undergraduate student at Princeton University, remained missing on Thursday morning as local authorities continued their ongoing search nearly one week after her disappearance. 

Ewunetie was last seen at around 3 a.m. on Friday near Scully Hall, a residential building located in the southeastern part of the Ivy League institution's suburban New Jersey campus. She is 5 feet 4 inches tall, weighs 130 pounds, and has black hair and brown eyes, the university said in a statement announcing the search earlier this week. 

The Department of Public Safety at Princeton issued a missing student alert on Monday, according to the university. The previous night, Misrach's family had requested that officers conduct what the school calls a "wellbeing check" — when a student's relatives ask campus safety officers to make contact with them — because they had not heard from her in several days, said W. Rochelle Calhoun, the vice president for campus life at the university, in a letter to Princeton students on Wednesday.