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2004

News Releases about Research

December 20, 2004:
VA Patients Get Better Chronic, Preventive Care Than Similar U.S. Adults

December 16, 2004:
RAND Study Says 50-State Assessment of Student Reading Shows Students in Grades 4-12 Lag Behind Federal Goals

December 15, 2004:
RAND Report Proposes Ways To Cut Support For Radical Islam and Terrorism

December 7, 2004:
RAND Study of Embedding Reporters with U.S. Troops Concludes Effort in Iraq Was a Success

December 6, 2004:
RAND Report Says U.S. Government Should Set Strategy To Protect Container Shipping Industry Against Terror Attacks

November 24, 2004:
Improving Primary Care Treatment For Depression Helps Cut Mental Health Treatment Disparities Among Men

November 24, 2004:
RAND Study Concludes That Nation Should Support Test Facilities to Preserve Aeronautics Industry

November 17, 2004:
RAND Designs Concept for a Computer Network and Database To Help Intelligence Community “Connect the Dots”

November 17, 2004:
RAND Study Finds Law Enforcement Agencies Expecting Terrorist Attacks Are Generally Better Prepared

November 9, 2004:
RAND Study Identifies Most Effective Needle Exchange Programs For Drug Addicts

November 9, 2004:
RAND Corporation and Humana to Test Clinical QA Tools

November 8, 2004:
RAND Study Shows Compensation For 9/11 Terror Attacks Tops $38 Billion; Businesses Receive Biggest Share

November 8, 2004:
RAND Europe Study Finds "Virtual Smart Organizations" Are Addressing New Opportunities of the Global Digital Economy Head-On

September 27, 2004:
RAND Study Finds First Link Between Suburban Sprawl and Increase in Chronic Health Ailments

September 24, 2004:
RAND Study Recommends Faster Check-In, Improved Screening as Short-Term Security Improvements at Los Angeles Airport

September 16, 2004:
RAND–First 5 LA Study Finds Mother’s Education, Neighborhood Poverty Determine a Child’s Readiness for Elementary School

September 16, 2004:
RAND Study Shows U.S. Public Support for Domestic Family Planning Remains High; Lags for Program Abroad

September 15, 2004:
RAND Issues Pocket-Edition Terrorism Survival Guides Downloadable for Palm Handhelds, Home Printers

September 15, 2004:
RAND Study Finds L.A. Schools’ Arts Education Could Gain from More Coordination with Arts Groups

September 7, 2004:
RAND Study Finds Adolescents Who Watch a Lot of TV With Sexual Content Have Sex Sooner

September 7, 2004:
RAND and LRN Establish Alliance to Create Center for Corporate Ethics, Law and Governance

September 1, 2004:
RAND Study Shows Community-Based Drug Treatment Programs Can Help Youths Curb Drug Use, Improve Mental Health

August 27, 2004:
RAND Study Finds Modest Increase in Physical Education Can Help Cut Number of Overweight Young Girls

August 24, 2004:
Study of Racial Profiling in Oakland Finds Mixed Evidence of Bias in Stop Decisions; Evidence of Bias in Searches

July 13, 2004:
RAND Study Says U.S. Needs To Improve International Skills of Future Leaders

July 12, 2004:
RAND Study Finds California Medical Malpractice Award Caps Have Cut Payments By 30 Percent To Those Those Who Win Lawsuits

June 16, 2004:
RAND-NIOSH Study Says New Approach Needed to Protect Emergency Responders in Terrorist Attacks and Disasters

June 4, 2004:
RAND Report Says State Arts Agencies Need to Reach Out to Broader Public in Order to Avoid Cycle of Budget Woes

June 3, 2004:
RAND Researchers Say Immigration Alone Will Not Solve Europe’s Pension Crisis

June 2, 2004:
RAND Report Raises Concerns About Parts of California Public Health System

May 18, 2004:
RAND Study Finds Patients with Chronic Conditions Cut Use of Preventive Drugs When Drug Co-Payments Double

May 10, 2004:
Businesses Indicate Significant Growth in Fear of Terrorist Attacks, Study Shows

May 4, 2004:
RAND Study Shows People At Risk of Receiving Poor Health Care in All Parts of the United States

May 3, 2004:
RAND/UCLA Study Finds Problems in Medication Prescribing for Vulnerable Older Patients

April 27, 2004:
British Researchers Say Immigration Alone Will Not Solve Europe’s Pension Crisis

April 26, 2004:
RAND Study Says U.S. Coast Guard Should Speed Modernization

April 20, 2004:
RAND Study Finds Medical Schools Get 45 Percent of Federal Research and Development Funds Going to Higher Education

April 7, 2004:
RAND Examines What U.S. Can Learn About Domestic Intelligence Collection From UK, France, Canada, and Australia

April 5, 2004:
Improving Primary Care Treatment for Depression Creates Long-Lasting Improvements for Minority Patients

March 25, 2004:
Publicly Available Federal Geospatial Information Of Little Unique Use To Terrorists, RAND Study Finds

March 18, 2004:
RAND Study Describes How West Can Counter Radical Islam

March 12, 2004:
RAND Study Warns that South Koreans’ Long-Term Support for Alliance with U.S. Threatened by Differences Over North Korea

March 11, 2004:
Charitable Giving To Higher Education Stabilizes in 2003; Gifts From Alumni Rebound After A Sharp One-Year Decline

March 9, 2004:
Cost of Treatment for Obesity-Related Medical Problems Growing Dramatically

March 9, 2004:
RAND Study Highlights Challenges Facing Middle Schools

March 3, 2004:
Spending Differences Related To Race and Gender Disappear During Last Year of Life for Medicare Recipients

February 17, 2004:
RAND Study Says Demographic Shifts, Technological Change and Economic Globalization Will Affect Future U.S. Workforce and Workplace

February 16, 2004:
RAND Study Finds Choosing Hospice Care Raises Medicare Costs for the Last Year of Life

February 3, 2004:
RAND Study Finds African American Teens Less Likely Than Others To Become Regular Smokers

January 21, 2004:
RAND Study Says Lessons from Private Sector Might Help Improve Education

January 13, 2004:
RAND Study Finds Choosing Busiest Hospitals May Not Be Best Way to Seek Highest Quality of Care

January 8, 2004:
RAND Study Says Disability Rates Rise, Finds Link to Obesity

News Releases about the RAND Corporation

December 2, 2004:
RAND Corporation Completes Move To Innovative Headquarters Building

November 23, 2004:
RAND Establishes Three New Vice Presidential Posts

November 4, 2004:
Former U.S. Ambassador David Aaron to Direct RAND Center for Middle East Public Policy

September 30, 2004:
Alan Hoffman Joins RAND Corporation as Vice President of External Affairs

September 16, 2004:
Kauffman-RAND Center for the Study of Small Business and Regulation is Launched

September 3, 2004:
Susan Everingham to Direct International Programs at RAND

August 30, 2004:
RAND Announces Leadership of New Research Unit for Infrastructure, Safety and Environment

August 26, 2004:
Raymond I. Skilling Named Head of RAND Institute for Civil Justice Board of Overseers

June 7, 2004:
Farouk El-Baz Joins RAND-Qatar Policy Institute Board

May 24, 2004:
Military Technology Expert Eugen C. Gritton To Lead RAND’s National Security Research Division

April 30, 2004:
RAND Researcher Receives Medal of Valor

April 29, 2004:
Sesame Street Comes to Afghanistan

April 29, 2004:
Former Labor Secretary Ann Mclaughlin Korologos Elected to Lead RAND Corporation Board of Trustees