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2003

News Releases about Research

December 15, 2003:
Gilmore Commission Calls For Improved Homeland Security Strategy

November 12, 2003:
Agency Collaboration, Community Participation Vital To Cut Violent Gang-Related Neighborhood Crime

November 3, 2003:
RAND-UCLA Study Finds Significant Shortfalls in Quality of Health Care for Vulnerable Seniors

November 3, 2003:
RAND Study Finds Entertainment TV Can Help Teach Teens Responsible Sex Messages

October 30, 2003:
RAND Study Shows Project ALERT Helps Even High Risk Teens Curb Substance Abuse

October 29, 2003:
RAND Study Finds Competition and Innovation in Military Fixed-Wing Aircraft Industry Threatened

October 13, 2003:
RAND Study Finds Fastest Increasing Group of Obese Americans Are People 100 or More Pounds Overweight

October 6, 2003:
RAND Study Shows Disparities Among States In Mental Health Care for Children

October 1, 2003:
Homework: What Do We Know?

September 26, 2003:
RAND Study Finds Pittsburgh Schools Fail To Meet Proficiency Standards

September 10, 2003:
RAND Advises Individuals On Actions to Protect Themselves In a Terrorist Attack

September 8, 2003:
RAND Europe Study Says Sea Containers May Be a Vehicle for Transporting Terrorism

August 28, 2003:
RAND Study Finds Oil Refiners Expect Fuel Supplies Will Remain Volatile for Next Decade

August 20, 2003:
RAND Study Finds Emergency Responders Believe They Have Inadequate Protection

August 14, 2003:
RAND Study Finds LAPD Needs to Forge New Sense of Professionalism

August 7, 2003:
RAND Studies How Information Technology Can Benefit Health Care And Save Lives

August 5, 2003:
RAND Study Shows School-Based Program Can Decrease Emotional Symptoms Among Students Exposed to Violence

July 28, 2003:
RAND Book Looks At Nation-Building From Germany To Iraq

July 16, 2003:
RAND Report Forecasts U.S. Will Continue to Lead Information Revolution

July 15, 2003:
RAND Report Says Natural Disaster Research Could Help Reduce Economic Losses

July 8, 2003:
Medicare Bonus Payments Doing Little to Resolve Doctor Shortage

June 30, 2003:
RAND Study Finds California Charter Schools Produce Achievement Gains Similar to Conventional Public Schools

June 25, 2003:
Landmark Study Finds American Adults Often Fail to Get Recommended Care, Posing "Serious Threats" to Health

June 10, 2003:
RAND Finds Routine Medical Care Costs For Cancer Patients Only Slightly Higher For Those in Federal Clinical Trials

June 2, 2003:
RAND Study Concludes That Spinal Manipulation No Better Than Other Standard Treatments for Back Pain

May 22, 2003:
RAND Study Shows Hispanic Immigrants Move Up Economic, Educational Ladder as Quickly as Other Immigrant Groups

May 8, 2003:
Vast Majority of Cryopreserved Embryos Committed To Future Family Building

May 6, 2003:
RAND Study Finds HMOs Protect Medicare Beneficiaries From High Out of Pocket Medical Costs

May 5, 2003:
RAND Study Shows that Early Alcohol Use is a Warning Sign of Behavior Problems that Persist into Young Adulthood

April 21, 2003:
RAND Report Identifies Ways To Improve Student Math Performance

April 8, 2003:
RAND Study Finds Longer Postpartum Hospital Stays are Cost-Effective

April 2, 2003:
RAND Researchers Recommend Reform of California's Workers' Compensation Courts

March 27, 2003:
RAND Study Finds Seniors Not Well Represented in Trials of New Cancer Treatments, Despite Being the Majority of Cancer Patients

March 27, 2003:
RAND Report Demonstrates New Method of Assessing Natural Gas and Oil Resources

March 13, 2003:
Gifts to Higher Education Drop for the First Time in 15 Years; Decline in Giving by Alumni Shows Biggest Drop

February 28, 2003:
RAND Study Raises Safety Concerns About Ephedra and Ephedrine

February 18, 2003:
Most Dispute With HMOs Involve Out-Of-Network Care or Scope of Coverage, Not Medical Necessity Issues; Patients Win Nearly Half of All Appeals

February 18, 2003:
RAND Study Says $50 Million Effort Needed To Speed Removal of Deadly Landmines in 90 Nations

January 21, 2003:
Falling Fertility Provides Developing Countries with Opportunities to Reap Benefit of 'Demographic Dividend'

News Releases about the RAND Corporation

December 4, 2003:
Former RAND Employee Frederick S. Pardee Donates $10 Million to RAND Graduate School, which Now Bears his Name

November 19, 2003:
RAND to Occupy 59,000 Square-Feet in New Pittsburgh Building

November 18, 2003:
University of Miami and RAND Corporation Announce Partnership to Restructure Dante B. Fascell North-South Center

October 30, 2003:
Veteran Diplomat and Presidential Adviser David Aaron Joins RAND Corporation

October 15, 2003:
RAND Creates Homeland Security Center To Advance Domestic Terrorism Research

October 13, 2003:
RAND-Qatar Policy Institute Opens and Selects Board of Overseers

July 2, 2003:
RAND Graduate School Launches Volcker Initiative to Improve Performance of the U.S. Government

April 28, 2003:
RAND-Qatar Policy Institute Opens to Focus on Middle East Issues

April 4, 2003:
Former RAND Vice President George Tanham Dies at 81

March 3, 2003:
Intel and Panasonic Honored for Outstanding Corporate Support of Education

January 28, 2003:
Martin van der Mandele Heads RAND Europe

January 27, 2003:
Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill Joins RAND Board of Trustees