Authorities are searching for a College of New Jersey student who has been missing since Tuesday afternoon.

Paige Aiello, a college senior who commutes to school from her home in Hillsborough, was reported missing by her parents Wednesday morning. They had last seen her at 1 p.m. Tuesday, TCNJ spokesman Matt Golden said.

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Hillsborough police said Wednesday there were no signs of foul play surrounding Aiello’s disappearance and that an investigation was ongoing and involved other, unspecified law enforcement agencies.

Aiello is white with brown hair who is listed as 5-foot-3 on the website for TCNJ’s tennis team, where she is a captain.

According to Golden, Aiello attended classes at TCNJ Tuesday morning before heading back home sometime before 1 p.m. Although authorities were not searching for her in the Ewing area, campus police reached out to friends and teammates of Aiello’s today to gather information and offer assistance including counseling, Golden said.

Paige Aiello, a Hillsborough resident and student at The College of New Jersey, at a tennis tournament in West Windsor in August 2011.

Aiello’s parents reported her missing sometime this morning, as TCNJ was notified of her disappearance when the report was entered into law enforcement databases around 8:45 a.m., Golden said. An alert was then sent out to the campus community, urging people with information on Aiello’s whereabouts to contact authorities.

Golden called the move standard when a TCNJ student is reported missing.

“We wanted to get people aware there is an investigation,” he said.

The Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office did not return requests for comment tonight.

Anyone with information is asked to contact Hillsborough Sgt. Sean Carolan at (908) 369-4323 or TCNJ police at (609) 771-2345.

Contact Alex Zdan at azdan@njtimes.com or (609) 989-5705.

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