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	Elias James Corey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The graduate student, Jason Altom, was a Ph.D. student at Harvard University who committed suicide by taking potassium cyanide in 1998, citing in his suicide note "abusive research supervisors" as one reason for taking his life.
		Altom was working on one of the most complex natural products and felt enormous pressure to finish the molecule before starting his academic career.
		Altom's suicide highlighted the pressures on Ph.D. students, problems of isolation in graduate school, and sources of tension between graduate mentors and their students.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elias_James_Corey (958 words)

	The Chronicle: Colloquy: Background
		Altom, who was about to enter his sixth year at Harvard, was not the first chemistry student to kill himself.
		Altom was convinced that he needed to synthesize the molecule as part of his Ph.D., if he wanted to win a top academic post, his friends say.
		Altom's suicide on mental illness instead of using it as an opportunity to assess the cutthroat culture of top-flight graduate programs and the potentially dangerous climate of the Corey group, they say.
	chronicle.com /colloquy/98/suicide/background.htm (2767 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Chemistry Grad Student Dies
		Jason D. Altom, a fifth-year graduate student in the chemistry department, was found dead in his Somerville apartment last month, in what city authorities have deemed an apparent suicide.
		Altom also taught review sections for Chemistry 115, a graduate level chemistry course led by Corey, and was considered an extremely responsive and knowledgeable instructor.
		Altom, a member of the cross-country and tennisteams and a National Merit semi-finalist at OakRidge High School, graduated with highest honorsfrom the chemistry department of the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1993.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=107521 (446 words)

	Leisure Books Online - Romance Previews
		Superpowers or not, the moment Jason told Lane that their son, Davy, was a halfling, she was going to have Jason's head.
		Jason had put a stop to that right away, levitating the bully's shoes so he tripped over his own feet, then splayed face down in a tide pool.
		Jason took off from the platform, leaving Shamu's theater and zipping over the crowd to perch on the top of the Sky Tower to continue his surveillance of the park.
	www.dorchesterbooks.com /NEWpreviews/0505-52509-7_prv.htm (3590 words)

	ScienceWeek
		The student, Jason Altom, was the 3rd Harvard graduate student to commit suicide since 1997, and the event prompted much discussion, many recriminations, and the formation of committees at Harvard and at other universities, in both chemistry departments and other departments.
		Altom was working on the synthesis of a complex molecule under the supervision of organic chemist Elias J. Corey, winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
		In his suicide note, Altom elaborated on the pressures affecting graduate students: the pressure to succeed and the pressure of an intense relationship with a single supervisor.
	scienceweek.com /1999/sw990423.htm (6387 words)

	Odom v. Roberts 606 So. 2d 114 (Miss. 1992) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		PART I. On November 7, 1986, Leonard Odom, his wife, Teena, and their four year old son, Jason, were driving through an intersection at the Highway 80 and North Bierdman Road intersection in Pearl, Mississippi, when they were struck by a car driven by eighteen year old Albert V. Roberts.
		Altom recognized the rule around the country was that the right to accept the additur, on pain of a new trial on damages only if he does not, was limited to "the party affected (the defendant in the case of additur)," Altom, 298 So.2d at 702, citing 5 Am.Jur.2d, Appeal and Error § 946.
		Altom affirmed a jury verdict for plaintiff in the sum of $2,500, conditioned upon defendant's acceptance of an additur of $10,000.00.
	www.mslawyersearch.com /isysnative/RDpcaXN5c2luZGV4ZXNcZGF0YVxtc3NjXGNhc2VzXDU5MFw2MDZEMTE0LkhUTQ==/606D114.HTM (3240 words)

	The Michigan Daily Online
		Jason Altom, a fifth-year graduate student in chemistry, killed himself last week using cyanide taken from a laboratory.
		Altom was the third graduate student at Harvard to commit suicide since last year.
		In the letter, Altom said he would like a group of professors in charge of a students' thesis work, decreasing the full control of a graduate student's adviser.
	www.pub.umich.edu /daily/1998/oct/10-23-98/news/news11.html (488 words)

	ZoomInfo Web Summary: Jason Altom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The programs were started because 27-year-old Jason Altom, a fifth-year graduate student in chemistry, became the third Harvard graduate student to commit suicide in recent months due to stress.
		Altom, the third Harvard graduate student to commit suicide since 1997, was working on the synthesis of a complex molecule under the supervision of organic chemist Elias J. Corey, winner of the 1990 Nobel prize.
		Altom suggested in the note that a thesis committee, made up of three professors, should be formed earlier in the research process to help students assess their work and to protect them from what he described as "abusive research advisers".
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Altom_Jason_45682547.htm (356 words)

	Don't Know. Don't Care?. In the Pipeline:
		Jason was very nice man and good chemists and he had enormous expectations of himself.
		Jason was offered opportunity to publish the half of the molecule (which on its own was another known, complicated alkaloid) or he could have continued as a postdoc in the same group.
		Altom wouldn't have written letters to EJ and the dept if all the pressure was self imposed; clearly, the intellectual environment had some serious bearing on the pressures he felt.
	pipeline.corante.com /archives/2006/04/16/dont_know_dont_care.php (4518 words)

	seMissourian.com: Story: Altoms to face trial
		Emily Altom and Michael Altom were bound over for trial on charges of voluntary manslaughter and three counts each of felony child endangerment.
		Emily Altom told her Ethan was running a fever, Adams said, testifying that she suggested to Emily Altom that she bring Ethan in for treatment right away.
		The Altoms had agreed to meet her and the officers at 4 p.m.
	www.semissourian.com /story/1128828.html (1167 words)

	admiroutes: courriel des lecteurs - recherche scientifique - tous les messages 1998
		...Jason Altom, a 27-year-old, fifth-year graduate student in chemistry was the the third Harvard graduate student to commit suicide since last year and the one whose death carried the most pointed message to the university about the pain of graduate-school life for some people.
		Altom said his death could have been avoided and wrote, "Professors here have too much power over the lives of their grad students."
		Altom, who was enter his sixth year at Harvard, was not the first chemistry student to kill himself.
	www.admiroutes.asso.fr /action/courriel/recherche/98octo.htm (3859 words)

	Educational Sabotage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The article described the student, Jason Altom, as “by everyone’s estimation one of the best graduate students in Harvard University’s chemistry department.” The article said the student’s death raised questions about student advising, and, according to the author, the suicide is symptomatic of the “skewed power relationship” problem that exists at most universities.
		Altom was considered the finest student in the Corey group and helped teach Mr.
		Altom had good reason to fear that “his advisor might turn on him.” They said it had happened to others before, and several students were “kicked out” in their fifth or sixth year by Mr.
	www.nationalvanguard.org /story.php?id=4449 (4288 words)

	The Cincinnati Post - Kentucky Guard returns from Iraq
		Joyce Muse of Cumberland County and other relatives were "thrilled to death" when her grandson, Jason Muse, 21, got off the bus.
		Altom said some thought the unit wouldn't return to Kentucky until January, but word came down two weeks ago that units from out of state that were replacing the soldiers would be there before Christmas.
		Other soldiers from the 623rd were injured and some are still in the hospital, Altom said.
	news.kypost.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051226/NEWS02/512260331/1014 (465 words)

	Essays.cc - Academic Stress
		The note Altom had left for his parents was eventually shared with a Harvard newspaper.
		Altom’s note stated that his student advisor, Corey, had had too much control over his future.
		Altom had been having trouble in the final stages of his doctoral work.
	www.essays.cc /free_essays/c1/bae6.shtml (1359 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Turn Off The Bunsen Burner
		After Altom's death, graduate students were quick to say the pressures he faced were not unique to Altom and to the lab of Professor E.J. Corey, where Altom worked.
		Altom wrote three suicide notes, one to Corey, one to his parents, and one to the chair of the chemistry department.
		But for Lawrence, who has been in the department for seven years, who served with Jason Altom in the Corey lab and who knows what it's like to have that stretch where nothing works, the only way that things can improve is through the attitude of the individual graduate students.
	www.thecrimson.com /printerfriendly.aspx?ref=102131 (1627 words)

	The Columbia Chronicle Online 10/18/99: Stress looms high for students
		When Jason Altom, a graduate student at Harvard, committed suicide last year because of school-related stress, campus officials across the nation took steps to prevent similar occurrences.
		Though Altom’s case is the exception, thousands of students experience panic disorders and between three million to six million Americans will have attacks in their lifetime, according to the National Institute of Mental Health.
		With Altom and numerous others who have committed suicide because of stress, school officials are putting more emphasis on solving the problem before it gets out of hand.
	www.ccchronicle.com /back/1999_fall/99oct18/news3.html (981 words)

	University assesses graduate advising after Harvard suicide,By TERESA CHO,Wednesday, December 2, 1998
		he August suicide of Jason Altom, a Harvard chemistry graduate student who blamed his research adviser for his death, has encouraged Princeton and Harvard to re-examine their graduate student advising system.
		Altom’s death was one of eight graduate student suicides since 1980 at Harvard, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education.
		While Altom’s suicide note blamed Corey for his death, Huppe said Harvard did not blame Corey for the incident and added that no disciplinary action has been taken against him.
	www.dailyprincetonian.com /Content/1998/12/02/news/cho.html (507 words)

	E-Commerce Joins the Guard
		Jason M. LeMay is a long-time employee of the Commonwealth of Kentucky's Department of Military Affairs and a former member of the Kentucky Army National Guard.
		He is a graduate of Union College in Kentucky and currently is pursuing a master's degree in public administration at Kentucky State University.
		David W. Altom is a public information officer with the Kentucky Department of Military Affairs and is editor of The Bluegrass Guard, the Kentucky Army National Guard's official command publication.
	www.almc.army.mil /alog/issues/MarApr01/MS649.htm (1809 words)

	Dorchester Publishing - Online Bookstore for Romance, Horror and Western Novels
		Sure, she has her reasons: When she needed him most, he was focusing on his super-career.
		His outcast father is still plotting world domination, and Jason's other Protector friends fear his commitment to justice.
		Soon Jason will swear that beating up the bad guys is easy.
	www.dorchesterpub.com /Dorch/productdetail.cfm?product_ID=732 (119 words)

	Publications by Jason Stewart in the Interaction-Design.org bibliography - Interaction-Design.org: A site about HCI, ...
		Publications by Jason Stewart in the Interaction-Design.org bibliography - Interaction-Design.org: A site about HCI, Usability, UI Design, User Experience, Information Architecture and more..
		In: Altom, Mark W., Williams, Marian G. (ed.): Proceedings of the ACM CHI 99 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference.
		Druin, Allison, Stewart, Jason, Proft, David, Bederson, Benjamin B., Hollan, James D.): KidPad: A Design Collaboration Between Children, Technologists, and Educators.
	www.interaction-design.org /references/authors/jason_stewart.html (322 words)

	Department of Chemistry - Give to Chemistry
		Jason D. Altom Memorial Undergraduate Research Fund (7806)
		This fund, created in memory of Jason D. Altom, an outstanding undergraduate student in the early 90's, will be used to fund research fellowships for Chemistry undergraduates at Carolina.
		This fund honors the memory of one of the Chemistry Department's and Carolina's finest faculty members by establishing an annual lecture in his memory.
	www.webslingerz.com /uncchem (470 words)

	Daily Free Press -Online cityscope Thursday, October 22, 1998
		Science students have traditionally been assigned one professor who supervises all their work, determines when they graduate and writes their recommendations.
		Jason Altom, a 27-year-old Ph.D. candidate in chemistry, committed suicide in August, leaving behind a note in which he suggested that a multiple-adviser board could have reduced pressure.
		Altom was one of three Harvard graduate students to commit suicide since 1980 while working under Nobel Prize-winning professor Elias Corey.
	www.dailyfreepress.com /media/paper87/dfparchive/cityscope/1022982.html (419 words)

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		S 1-10 G32 Jason Utech rush for 4 yards to the GHS28.
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		In that span, he averaged 22.3 points and 7.8 assists and shot 50.9%.
		Jason Kidd will be the top free agent next season, and speculation has him signing with the Spurs to play with reigning league MVP Tim Duncan.
		"It is astounding that a player as great as Kobe can improve his game this much," says Randy Altom of Rhome, Texas.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/basketball/nba/2003-02-17-one-on-one_x.htm (454 words)

	[No title]
		Such is the case with the suicide two months ago of a fifth-year graduate student, Jason Altom, at Harvard University.
		It is impossible to speculate on the full range of factors that led an apparently outstanding and respected student, outwardly stable and well-liked by his fellow students, to decide to take his own life.
		What does prompt comment, however, is the fact that Altom left a detailed note describing the pressures to which he felt subject, and suggesting how some of these might have been avoided in different circumstances...
	www.etext.org /Politics/Progressive.Sociologists/socgrad/nov98 (17408 words)

	Sierra Vista - College CRAZiEs - So Glad To Hear From You
		He plays in his rock band, leads a Bible Study at his church where he also leads the music for college-age activities.
		Jason graduated from Cardiovascular Echosonography Tech School on January 29.
		(CONGRATS, JASON!!!!) He still plays his guitar, is a youth sponsor at the Bear Creek Methodist Church, and is currently employed at St. Pete's Dancing Marlin Restaurant.
	www.sierravista.org /college/infofromsppforms.htm (1509 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The University is considering ways to reduce the stress of academic life at the highly competi- tive school.
		When 27-year-old Jason Altom killed himself in August, he left a suicide note which said that academic advisors have too much power over their students.
		He suggested that degree candidates be given a committee of three advisors instead of one.
	www.npr.org /programs/morning/rundowns/1998/nov/me.11.18.98 (883 words)

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