Alexa Christakos '11 passed away on Sept. 4 after a motorcycle crash in Stratham, N.H. Christakos, who was from Lowell, Mass. received a degree from Brandeis in Philosophy and American studies, according to an obituary in the Boston Globe.

According to NewHampshire.com she was a passenger on the motorcycle, which was driven by her boyfriend, a New Hampshire man who also died in the crash. The website also reported that police "are investigating the possibility that [the man] was travelling at nearly 120 mph around the time his 2007 Yamaha motorcycle went off the highway." Neither were wearing helmets, which, according to the Globe, are not required by New Hampshire law.

According to the Globe obituary, she was a National Honor student and Scholastic All American swimmer with "enthusiasm, [an] adventurous spirit and love of life ... She touched so many lives with a compassionate heart as big as her beautiful smile; those fortunate enough to have known her will never be the same without her."

-Robyn Spector contributed reporting