The state medical examiner’s office has ruled that a Harvard College senior who was found dead in her room Saturday morning committed suicide, the fifth reported case involving a Boston-area college student this academic year.
Terrel Harris, a spokesman for the agency that oversees the medical examiner, said Thursday that the cause of death of Wendy Chang, 22, of Irvine, Calif., has been ruled as asphyxia by hanging.
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Evelynn M. Hammonds, dean of the college, told students last week that Chang was an English major who had just completed an honors thesis on Edith Wharton. She was also a member of the Crimson Key Society, a student group that gives tours of campus, wrote for the Harvard Crimson student newspaper, and worked as a designer for the Harvard Advocate, a college literary journal, Hammonds said.
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Her death is the latest tragedy involving Boston-area college students. Two MIT undergraduates took their own lives in the fall, and a Suffolk University senior died last week after apparently jumping from a campus building. Earlier this month, a Boston University graduate student died in an apparent suicide after ingesting a toxic chemical in her South End apartment.
The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention estimates that 1,100 college students commit suicide each year, and the vast majority have an underlying mental health disorder at the time of their death.
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