August 3, 1999–February 4, 2078
Resident of Berkeley
Dr. Edith Gluck, known to her students as “EG,” passed away on February 4, 2078, at the age of seventy-eight.
After completing degrees in ecology and bioengineering at Caltech, MIT, and Stanford University, she accepted a tenured position at UC Berkeley in 2035. In the course of forty-four years in her lab, EG taught over eight hundred graduate students and mentored dozens of junior faculty.
EG loved sharing the natural world with her students and approached research with rigor and awe. Former student and current UC Berkeley professor Dr. Tamar Portman remembers that “no matter how busy EG was, if we knocked, she would look up and ask, ‘How can I help?’ It’s the model I’ve held for my own teaching.” Many students also fondly remember her extra-credit questions, which drew on her love of vintage video games and science fiction.
Outside work, EG was an active member of the East Bay Astronomical Society and could often be found lugging her telescope from place to place, ready to offer a guided tour of the stars and planets. She and her husband, an artist and game designer, collaborated on the popular Star Story app, which allows users to voice-record and share their personal or cultural memories, tagged to different constellations.
A celebration of life to be held at the Faculty Club, Sunday, February 13, at 1 p.m.
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