What Student Suicides Say About Asian Americans
By wchung | 13 Dec, 2025
Third Chinese Student Suicide at CalTech
World Journal, Posted: Aug 03, 2009 Review it on NewsTrust
PASADENA, Calif.-—Long Phan, 23, a graduate student at the California Institute of Technology, was found dead in his rental apartment. He is the third Chinese-American student at the school to have committed suicide in the last three months. According to the World Journal, Caltech President Jean-Lou Chameau responded immediately by creating an on-campus mental health task force. According to the article, the suicides started in May, when Brian Go killed himself by helium inhalation. Hong Kong immigrant Jackson Ho-Leung Wang ended his life on June 10.
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