Word: altom
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...graduated from the chemistry department this spring, and I was a classmate and friend of Jason Altom, the graduate student who committed suicide last month. Your Sept. 14 article confirmed what I have heard from other students in the department: that department chair Jim Anderson is making a real and sincere effort to improve the experience of graduate students. Harvard is fortunate to have someone like Anderson in this position at such a difficult time...
...request of the previous department chair; however, the faculty were apparently unable to agree on whether or how such a system should be enacted. Students in the department were well aware that such a proposal had been made and had stalled with the faculty; in fact, Jason Altom (in the note to Prof. Anderson quoted in the article) referred specifically to the QOL proposal as a model for the type of action which should be taken...
...department's faculty voted to accept Anderson's proposals in a meeting Tuesday, one month after the suicide of fifth-year graduate student Jason D. Altom awakened departmental concerns about the quality of graduate student experience...
Anderson, who assumed the department chair July 1, has been talking with administrators from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and University Health Services since Altom's death, and estimated last week that he has spent three-quarters of his time as chair rethinking the graduate program and "reconstituting an important part of the curriculum...
...suicide note, Altom had requested the formation of such committees to give students multiple lines of communication within a department, providing "protection for graduate students from abusive research advisors...