RAND Corporation Receives Good Government Award from the League of Women Voters of Greater Pittsburgh — Nov. 11, 2010
The RAND Corporation was selected as a 2010 recipient of the Good Government Award from the League of Women Voters of Greater Pittsburgh. The League encourages citizen participation in government and works to increase understanding of major public policy issues.
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RAND Corporation Selected a "Best Place to Work in Los Angeles" — Aug. 17, 2010
RAND was honored by the Los Angeles Business Journal as one of the "Best Places to Work in Los Angeles" for 2010, and ranked third among the eleven large organizations recognized.
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RAND Corporation Washington Office Voted 'Great Place to Work' — Oct. 19, 2007
The RAND Corporation's Washington office has been selected as one of The Washingtonian's Great Places To Work for 2007. The magazine notes that RAND "… researches everything from healthcare reform to criminal justice—and media and government pay attention to Rand [sic] reports."
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Dream Teams that Shape L.A.'s Skyline — Aug. 27, 2007
The Los Angeles Business Journal featured the RAND Corporation Headquarters in a special report on Who's Who is Real Estate.
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RAND Gets Urban Land Institute Award for Excellence — May 11, 2007
The RAND Corporation received the prestigious Urban Land Institute (ULI) Award for Excellence: The Americas, which recognizes outstanding achievement in land use practice.
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RAND Receives $6 Million Grant to Evaluate Math Curriculum of Carnegie Learning — Apr. 5, 2007
The U.S. Department of Education has awarded the RAND Corporation a $6 million grant to conduct a five-year study of the effectiveness of a technology-based mathematics curriculum created by Carnegie Learning, Inc., of Pittsburgh.
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Mission – Possible: Podcast interview with James Thomson — Jan. 16, 2007
In a Podcast interview at enterpriseleadership.org, James A. Thomson, President and CEO of the RAND Corporation, discusses RAND's critical work in homeland security and IT innovation in the private sector.
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2006 PRGS Commencement Address Available — Oct. 24, 2006
Carl Bildt, former Prime Minister of Sweden, delivered the 2006 PRGS commencement address. Mr. Bildt focussed on seven lessons derived from a decade of state-building.
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Featured Commentary: RAND Finds Pittsburgh Grand — Jun. 20, 2006
After six years of expansion in Pittsburgh, RAND celebrates the opening of new offices in the RAND Building on June 21, 2006. In a commentary in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, RAND President and CEO James A. Thomson and Barry Balmat highlight RAND's commitment to making the city and region better.
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RAND Headquarters Wins Environmental and Design Honors — Apr. 10, 2006
The RAND Corporation has received the U.S. Green Building Council's Gold Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification for the environmentally responsible design of its headquarters in Santa Monica, CA, along with the Los Angeles Architectural Award for corporate headquarters design.
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RAND Health Director Wins Institute of Medicine's 2005 Lienhard Award — Nov. 01, 2005
The Institute of Medicine of the National Academies presented their
2005 Lienhard Award for the advancement of personal health services to
Robert Brook, Director of RAND Health. The award honors Dr. Brook for
his commitment to improving the effectiveness of health care services
and shaping the discourse on health care policy.
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Nobel Committee Honors Former RAND Economist — Oct. 11, 2005
Dr. Thomas Schelling, recipient of the 2005 Nobel Prize in economics, had a nearly 50-year affiliation with RAND. He received the prize "for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis" — analysis that was conducted in part while at RAND.
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RAND and USC Announce Partnership to Foster Joint Research and Educational Programs
The RAND Corporation and the University of Southern California announced a partnership designed to encourage collaboration between the institutions on research projects, educational programs and staff recruitment.
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The Falling Dollar: A Silver Lining for Pittsburgh
With the dollar falling, inflation accelerating, interest rates rising and growth slowing, the U.S. economy is in the midst of what could be a painful economic adjustment, triggered by historically high trade and budget deficits. But there is a silver lining in this cloud because corporations in Pittsburgh and around the United States can benefit from a more competitive dollar, write Barry Balmat and Keith Crane.
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RAND Corporation Wins Award From American Association For Public Opinion Research
A pioneering RAND Corporation study based on the first national probability sample of HIV adult patients receiving medical care in the United States has been awarded the 2005 Policy Impact Award by the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR).
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McNamara, Brown, Scowcroft and Carlucci Discuss National Security Issues
Four former U.S. defense secretaries and national security advisors helped mark the opening of RAND's new headquarters on April 13, 2005, by convening for a panel discussion on national security issues.
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RAND Expands Child Policy Research with Gift from PNC Financial Services
The RAND Corporation has received a $500,000 gift from The PNC Financial Services Group to establish the PNC Chair in Early Childhood Policy, which will help bring a top child policy scholar to work at RAND's Pittsburgh office.
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Inside RAND
Santa Monica Mirror publisher Michael Rosenthal toured the new headquarters building with RAND Executive Vice President Michael Rich.
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Santa Monica Headquarters Campus
RAND Corporation Completes Move To Innovative Headquarters Building
The RAND Corporation has relocated about 1,000 staff members to its new headquarters building in Santa Monica, Calif., signaling an important new step in the nonprofit organization's evolution.
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Santa Monica Headquarters Campus
Survey Assesses Well-Being of Los Angeles Children and Families
RAND is conducting a major four-year study of Los Angeles' children,
families, and neighborhoods. The study, known as the Los Angeles Family
and Neighborhood Study (L.A. FANS) is providing unique insights into the
nation's second largest city.
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RAND to Occupy New Pittsburgh Building
The RAND Corporation has signed a lease with The Elmhurst Group for 59,000
square-feet of office space in a new Pittsburgh building scheduled for
completion in 2005.
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Center for Adolescent Health Promotion
With community partners, the Center conducts research and provides education
about adolescent health, including sexual health, mental health, violence,
physical activity, nutrition, and obesity.
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Community Coalitions to Prevent Substance Abuse
Researchers from RAND and the University of South Carolina are studying
methods to help community coalitions to prevent substance abuse and improve
health. This project partners researchers with local substance abuse prevention
coalitions to test a specific method called "Getting to Outcomes
2004: Promoting Accountability through Methods and Tools for Planning,
and Evaluation."
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Healthcare for Communities
This project, called Healthcare for Communities, is designed to provide
information on how the healthcare system is functioning and changing for
people with alcohol, drug abuse and mental health conditions. It tracks
changes in health policy, health care delivery, access to care, and costs
and outcomes of care related these conditions.
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RAND Center for Population Health and Health Disparities
Where you live affects your health, but it's not known exactly
how. This project examines how built environments—street patterns,
housing, transportation, and land use—affect health outcomes. The
project will focus on Santa Monica, California; the Washington, D.C. area;
and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Santa Monica Headquarters Under Way
As RAND's new Santa Monica headquarters continues to take shape, its
design has drawn praise from the public and design professionals alike:
"stunning," "graceful," and "innovative."
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Quaker Valley Digital School District: Early Effects and Plans for Future
Evaluation
A RAND study examines the effects of a local program that offers laptop
computers to children in grades 3—12 and wireless Internet connections
at schools and homes. The findings of this study in Quaker Valley also
include recommendations for similar programs that could be implemented
nationally
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RAND Study: Pittsburgh Fail to Meet Proficiency Standards
Although Pittsburgh's elementary and middle schools have higher
average test scores than urban schools serving similar populations elsewhere
in Pennsylvania, most students in the Pittsburgh Public Schools fail to
meet state proficiency standards in reading and math.
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City of Santa Monica Community Profile
Since June 1999, RAND has provided technical research assistance to the
Human Services Division staff in the City of Santa Monica. This most recent
report presents a summary of demographic and several social welfare indicators
collected from the 2000 Census and analyzed by RAND to update the City
of Santa Monica Community Profile. The report provides citizens and communities
of the City of Santa Monica with background information and analysis to
assist in the planning and evaluation of services and programs.
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New Headquarters Planned
When it is completed in 2004, RAND's five-story, elliptical-shaped, 309,000-square-foot
new headquarters may soon become a local landmark, opening the door to
the redevelopment of the Santa Monica Civic Center.
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Pennsylvania Governor's School Visits RAND
The Pennsylvania Governor's School for International Studies
recently visited RAND Pittsburgh. RAND Pittsburgh was recommended to the
Governor's School by the University of Pittsburgh to participate in the
"Shadow Day" program.
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Profile of the Santa Monica-Malibu School District
This briefing, prepared in response to a request from a Santa Monica
citizens' group, uses publicly available data to describe important features
of the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District (SM-MUSD) in comparison
to three sets of districts:
(1) five districts similar to SM-MUSD in total enrollment and student
demographics
(2) four districts with the highest student test scores in the state
(3) the average from Los Angeles County as a whole.
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