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Family and friends are mourning after the death of a UC Santa Barbara graduate student. Vikram Mubayi, who was entering the fifth year of his PhD program in UCSB’s Chemical Engineering Department, was found dead on the evening of August 3 in the Big Pine Lakes area of Inyo National Forest.
According to a Reddit post, Mubayi last updated family with his coordinates while hiking there at around 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, August 1. A search-and-rescue effort that included the Inyo County Sheriff’s Office, Inyo County Search and Rescue, and California Highway Patrol later followed, with highway patrol recovering Mubayi on Monday.
Editor’s Note: This story’s headline was updated after it was published.
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