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Abram Amsel, Ph.D.
Ashbel Smith Professor of Psychology Emeritus
1922 - 2006
A memorial service for Abe Amsel, Ashbel Smith Professor Emeritus, was held on Friday, September 8, 2006, at the Weed-Corley-Fish Funeral Home on Lamar and 31st.
Abe was a distinguished faculty member in the Psychology Department from 1969 until his retirement in 1999. He was elected into the National Academy of Sciences in 1992 for his extensive research on animal learning. By any measure, Abe helped develop the department into what it is now.
Since 1969 Professor Amsel had taught psychology classes here at the University. He was named the Ashbel Smith Professor in 1981, and was named professor emeritus in 1999. His research interests included behavior theory, animal learning and motivation, ontogeny and neurobiology of learning and memory. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and served on the executive committee of the Society of Experimental Psychologists. He was also awarded the Howard Crosby Warren Medal for Outstanding Research in Psychology.
He was greatly admired and respected for his contributions to the field of brain-behavior relationships.
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