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Weld Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry James G. Anderson, chair of the department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, announced major changes to the department's graduate program yesterday in an e-mail message to students and colleagues...
...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...
...chemistry faculty approved frequent buffet dinners--the first of which will take place next Tuesday--for graduate students and post-docs to discuss the department with Anderson in an informal setting. Anderson will also meet with the student-run Quality of Life Committee on aregular basis, as well as individual classes (allfifth-years, for example) to discuss issuesspecific to a particular stage in the graduatecareer...
Hoping to highlight the "exciting,nontraditional choices available" to graduatessearching for opportunities outside of academia,Anderson plans to invite Harvard alums to leadcolloquia within the department, aiming both "toaid students in defining their career goals [and]to discuss both conventional and alternativecareer opportunities available to Ph.D. chemists...