Randi Alexandra Engle ’89

Randi Alexandra Engle ’89 passed away at home in Berkeley, California, on October 26, 2012, after a two-year battle with pancreatic cancer. Randi grew up in Ridgewood and Colts Neck, New Jersey, where she was salutatorian and a track star at Marlboro High School. At Dartmouth Randi was a Tucker Fellow and a member of Phi Tau and Casque & Gauntlet. She also ran track and skied cross country during her freshman year. She later volunteered for a year as a teacher at the East Hill Farm and School in Vermont and on the Navajo Nation in Window Rock, Arizona. She graduated cum laude with the class of 1990 with a double major in psychology and mathematics. After becoming engaged, she and Tom Kuhn ’88, whom she met at Dartmouth, hiked the Appalachian Trail for two months and married in 1991. Randi received her Ph.D. in symbolic systems in education from Stanford in 2000. She then spent five years as a postdoctoral researcher at the learning research and development center at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She also served as an active member of the family choir at the First Unitarian Church in Pittsburgh. She returned to the West Coast and joined the faculty in the graduate school of education at Berkeley and was promoted to tenure in 2011. Randi’s numerous academic awards and honors included an National Science Foundation Career Grant, a Hellman Family Fund Award and a dissertation fellowship from the Spencer Foundation. She is survived by her husband, Tom, and daughters Rebecca and Gwendolyn.