Melissa Pierce and Lored Asllani, of Durham, N.C. are pleased to announce their engagement.
The bride-to-be’s parents are Lynn and Nancy Pierce of Jefferson, and the groom-to-be parents are Kujtim and Klementina Asllani, of Worcester, Mass.
A July 2010 wedding in Worcester, Mass., is planned.
Pierce and Asllani are graduate students at Duke University.
The couple plans to complete graduate school, and return to New England.