Dr. G. A. Steven

Dr. Steven A. Rasmussen: from Brown alum to department chair.

PROVIDENCE – Dr. Steven A. Rasmussen, the newly appointed chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, recently reflected on his more than three decades at Brown. In an interview with the Rhode Island Medical Journal at his office on the Butler Hospital campus he recalled his early years in the 1970s as an undergraduate, when ...

G . Kohn and Steven Shavell

The description of economic behavior as sequential decision making under uncertainty has been hampered by the limited nature of the available theoretical results. This paper tries to fill some of the gaps. In particular, the paper develops some basic results for the problem of search. We present a general formulation of the search problem in Section 2. Search is seen as sequential sampling from...

Dr. A. M. G. Campbell

Dr. G. L. Foss

Dr. George Lush Foss who died on 11th February 1985 at the age of 76 years was not only a highly respected General Practitioner in Bristol but also a pioneer in the early days of Endocrinology and the problems of sub-fertility. Educated at Marlborough and Jesus College, Cambridge he did his clinical training in Bristol where his father was a general practitioner in St. George. On the very day t...

Portrait of Dr Michael G. Hanna, Jr

W hile a PhD candidate, doing my thesis at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Biology Division under Dr. Charles Congdon, my introduction to the immune response was studying graft vs. host (GVH) disease as a consequence of bone marrow transplantation in mice. The sequalae of GVH was impressive, and demonstrated the potential of negative clinical consequences of the immune system. The idea of ha...