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...August of 1998, the suicide of chemistry graduate student Jason Altom sent shock waves through Harvard's chemistry department...
Late one night, Altom swallowed a lethal amount of potassium cyanide, after frustrating months spent failing to get a complicated chemical reaction to work...
...Altom wrote in his suicide note, "This event could have been avoided...Professors here have too much power over the lives of their grad students...
Since the incident, the department says its has worked day and night to ensure that nothing like the Altom suicide will ever happen again...
...addition to these changes, one specific problem that Altom mentioned in his suicide note is on its way to be remedied. Until this year, graduate students had one adviser with whom they worked closely from their first year until the completion of a thesis...