Suicide highlights graduate student woes

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The suicide of a Harvard University graduate student, Jason Altom, has led the university to review its policies toward graduate students. Altom was a PhD candidate in the chemistry department, and he left a note, part of which was published in the student newspaper, Harvard Crimson. New guidelines provide for a pre-thesis committee to be established for second-year graudate students, with two faculty members in addition to their advisors. The department will also pay for psychological counselling services for students.

Universities and colleges, Graduate students, College administration, Graduate study, Harvard University

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Med school to relax rules on business links?

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Senior faculty members at Harvard Medical School have recommended that conflict-of-interest guidelines be eased, to ensure greater flexibility for researchers in their commercial dealings. Currently faculty members are not allowed to own more than $20,000 of stock in companies for which they undertake research, and consulting fees from an individual company cannot be more than $10,000 a year. The monetary limits are expected to be brought into lined with other leading universities.

Ethical aspects, Conflict of interests (Agency), Conflicts of interest (Agency), Harvard University. School of Medicine

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Moves are afoot to probe the lake trapped beneath Antarctic ice

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A meeting in Cambridge, England, of around 80 scientists from 14 countries will seek to establish the scientific basis on which Lake Vostok, which is buried underneath four km of ice in East Antarctica, can be explored. The main elements of a plan to explore Lake Vostok are already emerging. The first stage will be a geophysical site survey using new radar, seismic, magnetic and gravity data to identify the lake's boundaries and assist in establishing its origins.

Discovery and exploration, Antarctic regions, Lake Vostok

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