From HCSSA Announcement, November 11, 1997:

It is with tremendous sadness that Harvard Chinese Students and Scholars Association (HCSSA) inform you the death of a Chinese student, GE Hailei.

Hailei was a first-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Harvard University. He graduated from Beijing University in 1992 and worked for the Stone Company in Beijing for five years before coming to the United States in September 1997.

At 2:15pm on November 5, 1997, Hailei jumped out of a fourth floor window of a building where he often studied. He suffered severe head injuries and chest fractures. He was rushed to the hospital and his death was announced several hours later. On November 7, Harvard Police Department officially announced suicide as the main cause of the death.

More Information

• In memory of Hailei GE (from HCSSA)

• Funeral Arrangement [5 December 1997]

• GSC Focus on Graduate Student Advising and Treatment

• Open Letter from Graduate Student Council to Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine [4 December 1997]

• Editorial: Making Harvard a Truly Supportive Community [4 December 1997]

• December GSC Meeting Announcement on Discussion of Graduate Student Advising and Treatment [1 December 1997]

• HCSSA Announcement and Call for Donation

• HCSSA Seminar in memory of GE Hailei: Coping with personal and academic concerns at Harvard [21 November 1997]

Media Coverage

• Suicide Spurs GSAS, Chem. Department To Review Advising: The Harvard Crimson [14 September 1998]
• Chemistry Grad Student Dies: The Harvard Crimson [11 September 1998]
• Dear President Rudenstine: An open letter to improve graduate student support systems, Editorial: The Harvard Crimson [8 December 1997]
• Graduate Student Council Pushes For Better Advising System: The Harvard Crimson [4 December 1997]
• Let Suicide Be Wake-Up Call/Focus on Grad Student Stress, Letters to the Editor: The Harvard Crimson [20 November 1997]
• Doctoral Candidate Dies: Harvard University Gazette [13 November 1997]
• C.S. Department Reacts to Ge's Apparent Suicide: The Harvard Crimson [7 November 1997]
• GSAS Student Dies After Four-Floor Fall: The Harvard Crimson [6 November 1997]