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...Altom suggests involving thesis committees--a group of three professors who evaluate a degree candidate's research--earlier in the process would "provide protection for graduate students from abusive research advisors...
...Altom's death has galvanized Anderson, who assumed the chair of the chemistry department July 1, to place scrutiny of the graduate student experience at the top of his agenda...
...There is no doubt that the Altom death crystallized a number of things that have been in our thinking," Anderson says...
...Altom was a department student-veteran, and he explicitly criticized the department in his suicide note...
According to Rebecca J. Jackman and MichaelGrogan, graduate students in chemistry and closefriends of Altom, change in their department is"long overdue...