Missing Brown Graduate Goldstein Found Dead in India

Missing Brown Graduate Goldstein Found Dead in India

Brown University graduate Kate Goldstein, who was a fourth year graduate student at MIT, has died in India.

Goldstein, who graduated from Brown with a degree in engineering in 2008, was in India at the campus of the Students Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh (SECMOL) participating in a workshop on energy and development. 

According to a release from MIT, Goldstein, 28, was last seen going for run on a mountain trail at around 6 a.m. local time on Saturday, June 14. When she did not return, a group of SECMOL students and instructors began a search of the summit around 8:45 a.m. Her parents, who traveled to India to assist in a formal investigation, report that she slipped while running on loose rock, sliding several hundred feet off a cliff.

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Goldstein had been an original member of the Ronald McDonald House Running Club in Providence, from 2007 to 2009, and had been active in the club this past spring upon returning to Providence.