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RAND Is Accepting Applications for Stanton Nuclear Security Fellowships

RAND is accepting applications for up to three Stanton Nuclear Security Fellows. The application deadline is January 21, 2020. The program was created to stimulate the development of the next generation of thought leaders on nuclear security.

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RAND Is Accepting Applications for Stanton Nuclear Security Fellowships

RAND is accepting applications for up to three Stanton Nuclear Security Fellows. The application deadline is January 14, 2019. The program was created to stimulate the development of the next generation of thought leaders on nuclear security.

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RAND Wins $2.1 Million Grant to Improve Landslide Prediction

A RAND-led team that includes the University of Southern California, the University of Oregon, the Sitka Sound Science Center, and the Sitka Tribe of Alaska will design a novel landslide risk warning system for Sitka, Alaska, a coastal town of 9,000 near the landslide-prone slopes of the Tongass National Forest.

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RAND Is Accepting Applications for Stanton Nuclear Security Fellowships

RAND is accepting applications for up to three Stanton Nuclear Security Fellows. The application deadline is January 15, 2018. The program was created to stimulate the development of the next generation of thought leaders on nuclear security.

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RAND Opens Office in the San Francisco Bay Area

RAND has opened an office in the San Francisco Bay Area to foster collaboration with the region's leaders and researchers working to solve today's complex problems. Nidhi Kalra, a senior information scientist, is leading the new office.

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RAND Is Accepting Applications for Stanton Nuclear Security Fellowships

RAND is accepting applications for up to three Stanton Nuclear Security Fellows. The application deadline is January 9, 2017. The program was created to stimulate the development of the next generation of thought leaders on nuclear security.

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RAND Corporation Appoints Special Advisor on Israel with the Center for Middle East Public Policy

Shira Efron has been named a special advisor on Israel at the RAND Corporation Center for Middle East Public Policy, to continue to develop relationships with Israeli institutions and attract support for further Israel-related public policy research.

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RAND's Shelly Culbertson Publishes Book on Middle East After the Arab Spring

A new book by RAND's Shelly Culbertson mixes travel memoir, reporting, and analysis across six Middle Eastern countries, presenting diverse experiences of the Arab Spring.

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RAND Studies Help Inform Pentagon Decision to Open Combat Roles to Women

RAND researchers addressed topics such as whether members of U.S. special forces are ready to integrate women into their ranks and what lessons may be learned from other militaries that already have integrated women into combat positions.

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RAND Is Accepting Applications for Stanton Nuclear Security Fellowships

RAND is accepting applications for up to three Stanton Nuclear Security Fellows. The application deadline is February 8, 2016. The program was created to stimulate the development of the next generation of thought leaders on nuclear security.

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Harold and Colene Brown Endow Faculty Chair at Pardee RAND Graduate School

The Harold and Colene Brown Faculty Chair will enable exceptional RAND researchers and faculty to be in residence at the school each year, allowing them to work on independent research and provide mentorship and guidance to students.

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RAND Named One of 50 Greatest Places to Work by Washingtonian

Washingtonian's biannual feature honors organizations that are recognized — by their employees — for excellent pay and benefits, challenging and interesting work, work/life balance, opportunities to learn and grow, commitment to charity and community, and the recognition and respect given to staff.

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RAND Hosts Cybersecurity Exercise

The discussion of cybersecurity should not be trapped within narrow technical, national security, or legal stovepipes and should include an examination of economic, civil, and societal factors. With that goal in mind, RAND hosted an analytic exercise on cybersecurity.

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Law Enforcement Cyber Center: A New Internet Resource for Combating Cybercrime

The Law Enforcement Cyber Center provides vital information and resources to police chiefs, police officers, cybercrime investigators, and prosecutors.

Sasha Romanosky, Laura Patton

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RAND Announces New Center of Excellence on Health System Performance

RAND's new Center of Excellence on Health System Performance will study high-performance health systems that translate new evidence into clinical practice.

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Community Partners in Care Receives Accolade

Community Partners in Care, a partnership that uses a unique approach to improve depression care in under-resourced communities, has received the 2015 Community-Campus Partnerships for Health Award.

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New Research Consortium to Tackle Community Resilience in the Gulf Region

A new research group, the Consortium for Resilient Gulf Communities, will assess and address the public health, social, and economic impacts of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico region.

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RAND Announces New Water and Climate Change Resilience Center

RAND has established a new Water and Climate Resilience Center to address one of the most significant policy challenges of our time: How do we plan, build, and organize our societal systems to become more resilient to the unavoidable impacts of climate change?

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Donald B. and Susan F. Rice Support Pardee RAND's 'Be the Answer' Campaign with $1 Million Gift

Longtime RAND supporters Donald B. and Susan F. Rice, for the third time, have established an endowed scholarship at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Their most recent gift of $1 million was generously donated as part of Pardee RAND's Be the Answer campaign, which Don Rice chairs and which has thus far raised in excess of $19 million.

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RAND Is Accepting Applications for Stanton Nuclear Security Fellowships

RAND is accepting applications for up to three Stanton Nuclear Security Fellows. The application deadline is February 9, 2015. The program was created to stimulate the development of the next generation of thought leaders on nuclear security.

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RAND's Collaboration with Lawrence Livermore National Lab Shows How High-Performance Computing Could Revolutionize Decisionmaking

RAND's Emerging Policy Research and Methods Program has signed a memorandum of understanding with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's High Performance Computing Innovation Center to explore how high-performance computing could enable near-real-time policy and decision analysis through the use of complex, at-scale models.

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Pardee RAND Graduate School Receives $1 Million Gift, Establishes Lynda and Stewart Resnick Endowed Scholarship

A $1 million gift from philanthropists Lynda and Stewart Resnick will help Ph.D. candidates at the Pardee RAND Graduate School receive exceptional training today to embark on careers in public service.

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RAND to Evaluate New STEM Initiative in Appalachia Region

RAND will provide research and analysis for a multiyear, multimillion-dollar investment by Chevron in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) K-12 education and energy-sector workforce development training in the Appalachia region.

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James Dobbins and Katherine Kahn Receive Distinguished Chairs

RAND Distinguished Chairs are researchers recognized for distinction in their field and for groundbreaking efforts to solve some of the world's most challenging problems. Two new distinguished chairs have just been appointed: James Dobbins as Distinguished Chair in Diplomacy and Security and Katherine Kahn as Distinguished Chair in Health Care Delivery Measurement and Evaluation.

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RAND Joins Coalition to Tackle Youth Unemployment

The RAND Corporation has joined the World Bank and other corporate and civil society leaders to establish Solutions for Youth Employment, a global coalition that acts to address the pervasive challenges of youth employment.

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Brian Michael Jenkins Joins Elite Panel on Domestic Intelligence Gathering

The "Blue Ribbon Panel" will preside over work by a Business Executives for National Security task force to determine whether post-9/11 reforms have kept pace with evolving threats to homeland security.

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$5 Million Cazier Gift to Pardee RAND Graduate School Launches Environmental and Energy Sustainability Initiative

A $5 million gift from engineer and philanthropist John M. Cazier will turbocharge research in environmental and energy sustainability at the Pardee RAND Graduate School.

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Jeremy R. Azrael Scholarship Supports Students from Former Soviet States

The Jeremy R. Azrael Scholarship ensures that the graduate school can provide a full scholarship each year to a first-year student from a former Soviet state.

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RAND Is Accepting Applications for Stanton Nuclear Security Fellowships

The RAND Corporation is accepting applications for up to three Stanton Nuclear Security Fellows. The application deadline is February 10, 2014.

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Willis Ware Inducted Into the National Cyber Security Hall of Fame

The board of advisors for the National Cyber Security Hall of Fame has chosen Willis H. Ware, computer scientist emeritus at RAND, as one of its five inductees for the Class of 2013.

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RAND Designs Web Registry for Developing-Country Impact Evaluations

Announcement about RAND's work designing a web registry for impact evaluations in developing countries

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Erik Nemeth Appears on History Channel's 'America's Book of Secrets: Lost Treasures'

In an episode of the History Channel's America's Book of Secrets, Erik Nemeth discusses the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist of 1990 and the broader implications of art crime for national security.

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Paddock Named Fellow of the American Statistical Association

The American Statistical Association named Susan Paddock as a 2013 ASA Fellow. She was honored for excellence in statistical applications to public policy research, for integrating innovative statistical methodology with substantive problems of national healthcare policy, and for noteworthy service to the profession.

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2013 WISE Awards Celebrate Innovation in Education Across the Globe

The World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) recognizes six innovative projects that are having a transformative impact on education around the world.

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Natalie Crawford Honored with the Thomas D. White National Defense Award

The United States Air Force Academy has selected Senior Fellow Natalie Crawford as this year's recipient of the Thomas D. White National Defense Award, citing her long-term support of the Academy and her instrumental role in establishing an important and enduring relationship between RAND and the Academy.

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Lois Davis's Prisoner Re-Entry Work Earns Recognition from California Assembly

RAND congratulates senior policy researcher Lois Davis, whose work on the public health consequences of prisoner re-entry in California earned RAND the 64th Assembly District's AB 109 Re-Entry Award.

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Two Former Government Officials Join RAND Corporation Staff

Andrew Liepman and David Senty join RAND.

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RAND Corporation Accepting Applications for Stanton Nuclear Security Fellowships

The RAND Corporation is accepting applications for up to three Stanton Nuclear Security Fellows. The application deadline is February 11, 2013.

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Art Kellermann Elected to Institute of Medicine's Council of Governors

RAND congratulates Art Kellermann, M.D., Paul O'Neill–Alcoa Chair in Policy Analysis, on being named by his peers to serve on the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) Council of Governors.

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RAND App Brings Objective Policy Analysis to Your iPhone

RAND's new iPhone/iPad/iPod app is available for download in the app store.

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Titus Galama Wins Independent Scientist Award from the National Institute on Aging

RAND economist and PRGS professor Titus Galama has received the Independent Scientist Award from the National Institute on Aging.

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Ivan Sutherland, Developer of 'Sketchpad,' Receives Kyoto Prize

Ivan E. Sutherland, an employee and consultant in RAND's Information Sciences Department from 1974 to 1986, has received the 2012 Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology in the field of information science.

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Brian Michael Jenkins Selected for World Economic Forum

Brian Michael Jenkins, senior adviser to the president of the RAND Corporation, has been chosen as a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Terrorism.

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RAND's Lloyd Shapley Wins Nobel Prize in Economics

Lloyd S. Shapley, a longtime RAND researcher who is now an emeritus professor at UCLA, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics jointly with Alvin E. Roth for his work on game theory.

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Solomon Joins RAND as Senior Fellow

Richard H. Solomon has joined the RAND Corporation as a senior fellow. An experienced diplomat, policy analyst, author and respected leader on international affairs, Solomon most recently was the president of the U.S. Institute of Peace, a nonpartisan, congressionally established organization focused on international conflict management.

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Former RAND Researcher Elizabeth McGlynn Receives AcademyHealth's Distinguished Investigator Award

Former RAND researcher Elizabeth McGlynn has been honored with AcademyHealth's 2012 Distinguished Investigator Award. Her extensive research on health care quality has had an enormous impact on how experts evaluate health care reform.

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James Drake, 'Father of Windsurfing' and RAND Engineer, Dies at 83

James Drake, a former RAND aeronautical engineer who is also considered the father of windsurfing died on June 19 in his hometown of Pfafftown, North Carolina. He was 83.

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John Gordon Receives Arthur Goodzeit Book Award for 'Fighting for MacArthur'

Fighting for MacArthur: The Navy and Marine Corps' Desperate Defense of the Philippines, a World War II history written by John Gordon, has won 2011 the Arthur Goodzeit Book Award.

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Paul Baran Named Internet Hall of Fame Pioneer

Paul Baran, who helped develop the building blocks of the Internet during the 1960s while working as a researcher at the RAND Corporation, was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame. He was honored posthumously in the Pioneers Circle with others who were instrumental in the early design and development of the Internet.

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American Educational Research Association Honors RAND Research with 'Outstanding Policy Report' Award

A RAND Education report, A Big Apple for Educators, will receive the first Outstanding Policy Report award from the American Educational Research Association. The report analyzes the Schoolwide Performance Bonus Program.