Boston U. junior dies in hotel fall

By Meaghan Beatley

Adam Robert Engel, a School of Management junior, died Saturday from injuries suffered from a fall in the Doubletree Guest Suites Boston, the Boston Police Department said.

The honors and business administration major from Old Bethpage, NY, was pronounced dead on the scene by EMS after receiving a report at 12:43 a.m. of a person who fell, BPD spokesman David Estrada said.

The death is under investigation and no foul play is suspected, Estrada said. The medical examiner’s office will determine the cause of death.

Friends, faculty and classmates remembered Engel as a intelligent and vivacious student.

“Adam warmed and brightened the space around him and all he touched, and many of us will think of him often and miss him always,” Professor Patricia Doherty, who taught Engel last spring, said.

Close friend Adina Rusakov, a College of Arts and Sciences junior, described Engel as one of the most outgoing individuals she knew and “a wonderful friend, always.”

“He was so smart and ambitious, there were so many things that he had yet to do,” she said. “He was going to be incredibly successful.”

She said he looked forward to living in an apartment this year and cooking for himself, as well as studying abroad next semester.

SMG junior Kate Polacikova said her college experience took a definite turn for the better when she met Engel.

“Adam was such a passionate person: for life, for his friends, for his future,” she said. “He was always smiling and cheerful and knew how to be an amazing friend.”

Rusakov, Polacikova and Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences junior Emily Weingart met Engel their freshman year and from then and on became inseparable, Weingart said.

“I’ll never forget the countless times Adam would barge into our room with some fresh piece of gossip, to practice an SMG presentation or simply just to chill,” she said.

“One time I received an email from our RA telling us that we needed to stop drinking in the room. I responded honestly by saying that our loud laughter was not drunken laughter; we were really just having fun.”

Like Engel’s friends, accounting assistant professor Eng Wu remembers his student’s smiling face and unassuming nature.

“Adam was unquestionably an excellent student and very focused in his studies,” he said. “He was the type of student that professors love to have: a model student, respectful, attentive and never missing a class.”

Engel would have celebrated his 20th birthday on Sunday.

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