Brandeis professor Stuart H. Altman, a pioneering health policy expert who advised five U.S. presidential administrations, died Jan. 1 in North Carolina after a brief illness. He was 88.

Established in 1809, Miami University is located in Oxford, Ohio, with regional campuses in Hamilton and Middletown, a learning center in West Chester, and a European study center in Luxembourg.

Gaile Pohlhaus, associate dean of the College of Arts and Science; Timothy Melley, director of the Humanities Center; and Renée Baernstein, dean of the College of Arts and Science at Bachelor Hall as ...

In various capacities, Stuart Altman was an adviser in the administrations of five presidents: Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, ...