Anirban Majumdar, a 25-year-old Engineering graduate student, has disappeared, University officials said Friday afternoon.
Majumdar has not been seen since last Friday, University spokeswoman Phyllis Holtzman said.
According to Pat Brennan, director of the Department of Special Services, Majumdar was last seen in the Moore School building, located at 200 S. 33rd Street, by his two roommates between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Nov. 2 -- his birthday.
"He told them he was going to finish up some work and that he'd be home shortly," Brennan said.
Majumdar, a native of Calcutta, India, currently lives on the 4500 block of Locust Street. This is his first semester at Penn.
"He normally takes the shuttle either outside [the David Rittenhouse Laboratory] or over at Moravian [Cafe] to go home," Brennan said. "We don't have any record from transportation that he ever got on."
Majumdar's roommates contacted University Police Monday night.
Majumdar's mother was notified of her son's disappearance by a telephone call from Vice Provost for University Life Valarie Swain-Cade McCoullum through an interpreter.
A check of Majumdar's financial records revealed only a "nominal" $28 transaction shortly before 11 a.m. the day he disappeared, Brennan said.
"To the best of our knowledge he only has approximately $20 [in cash] that we can account for at the time of his disappearance," Brennan added.
According to Brennan, Philadelphia Police have been notified and Majumdar's name has been entered into the National Crime Information Center database.
The investigation is currently being treated as a missing-person's case.
"We have no reason to suspect foul play at this time," Brennan said. "We're still in the process of contacting friends locally and out of state."
Brennan urged members of the University community to help with the investigation by contacting University Police at 215-898-6600 or 215-898-4481 if they have any information regarding Majumdar's whereabouts.
"We'd like to ask the University community to if they have any information whatsoever," Brennan said. "No information is trivial."
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