October 23, 1998

Harvard Faces the Aftermath of a Graduate Student's Suicide

By ALISON SCHNEIDER

Chemistry department changes advising system after death of a promising young scientist

No one ever expected Jason D. Altom to kill himself, least of all because of his relationship with his graduate-school adviser. But in August, Mr. Altom, by everyone's estimation one of the best graduate students in Harvard University's chemistry department, swallowed cyanide and left behind three letters

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