RAND: RAND Announcements

RAND Europe Opens New Office in Brussels

2008-04-28T00:00:00Z

RAND Europe has opened an office in Brussels to facilitate the nonprofit research organization's growing portfolio of work with Brussels-based policy institutions, including the European Commission.

RAND Corporation Names Daniel McCaffrey as PNC Chair in Policy Analysis

2008-04-28T00:00:00Z

The RAND Corporation has appointed Daniel McCaffrey as the PNC Chair in Policy Analysis. The position was created to enable a researcher to devote a portion of his time to support new research on emerging or underappreciated issues, mentor promising researchers, and provide leadership within RAND's Pittsburgh office.

RAND Corporation Board of Trustees Elects Four New Members

2008-04-07T00:00:00Z

U.S. Army Gen. John Keane, businessmen Charles Martin and Bob Wright, and Johns Hopkins University professor Francis Fukuyama have been elected to the RAND Corporation Board of Trustees.

Melissa Flournoy Named Director of RAND Gulf States Policy Institute

2008-03-18T00:00:00Z

Founding president and CEO of the Louisiana Association of Nonprofit Organizations (LANO) Melissa Flournoy has agreed to become director of the RAND Gulf States Policy Institute (RGSPI). Flournoy will assume leadership of RGSPI May 19 and will be based in the New Orleans office.

Researcher Spotlight: Cheryl L. Damberg

2008-02-27T00:00:00Z

Cheryl Damberg is a Senior Researcher at RAND. Her areas of expertise include pay for performance, quality measurement, patient safety, consumer-directed health plans, and assessing the impact of health care reform initiatives on quality and costs.

Michael Portillo, Frank Kelly and Nigel Crisp Join Board of Trustees for RAND Europe

2008-02-22T00:00:00Z

RAND Europe today announced that The Right Honourable Michael Portillo, Professor Frank Kelly, FRS, and Lord Crisp have joined its Board of Trustees.

Jeffrey Hiday Appointed Director of Media Relations

2008-02-13T00:00:00Z

Jeffrey Hiday, a veteran public relations executive and news reporter, has joined the RAND Corporation as director of media relations. Hiday will be based at RAND's Washington office, and will direct staff in both RAND's Santa Monica headquarters and in Washington.

Endowment Created to Study Alternative, Complementary and Integrative Medicine

2008-02-07T00:00:00Z

The RAND Corporation and the Samueli Institute have created an endowment to support independent policy research on complementary, alternative and integrative medicine

Robert Brook Receives Health Research & Educational Trust's 2008 TRUST Award

2008-01-23T00:00:00Z

Dr. Robert Brook, vice president and director of RAND Health, was selected by the Health Research & Educational Trust as the recipient of the 2008 TRUST Award. The TRUST Award recognizes individuals who have exhibited visionary leadership in the health care field.

Robert E. Hunter Awarded Grand Officer of the Order of the Crown

2007-01-07T00:00:00Z

Robert E. Hunter is an expert in a wide variety of foreign policy and national security fields. He was recently awarded the Grand Officer of the Order of the Crown by the Belgian government for his work in modernizing NATO and for helping to repair US-Belgian relations after the Iraq war.

RAND Gulf States Policy Institute Awards Grants for Regional Policy Research

2007-12-17T00:00:00Z

The RAND Gulf States Policy Institute has awarded $466,748 in grants to support four research projects on topics that will stimulate evidence-based policy direction for the Gulf States region.

Researcher Spotlight: Robert Lempert

2007-11-30T00:00:00Z

Robert Lempert is an expert in science and technology policy, with a special focus on climate change, energy, and the environment. He was a contributor to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2007 along with Vice President Al Gore.

Board of Trustees Elects Three New Members; Names First Trustee Emeritus

2007-11-19T00:00:00Z

The RAND Corporation Board of Trustees has elected Gen. John W. Handy, real estate executive Peter Lowy, and businessman Donald Tang. In addition, former U.S. Secretary of Defense Harold Brown was elected “trustee emeritus,” a new category established by the Board of Trustees.

Donor Spotlight: Ann McLaughlin Korologos

2007-11-15T00:00:00Z

On National Philanthropy Day, RAND spotlights donor Ann McLaughlin Korologos, chairman of the RAND Corporation Board of Trustees. Korologos has had a rich career in the public, private and nonprofit sectors.

Iao Katagiri Honored at Big Thinking Women's "50 @ 50+ in L.A." Event

2007-11-13T00:00:00Z

Iao Katagiri, Deputy Vice President of the Office of External Affairs and Director of Community Relations for the RAND Corporation, is being honored as one of fifty exceptional women in Los Angeles who are over the age of fifty.

Robert Brook Receives David E. Rogers Award

2007-11-06T00:00:00Z

Dr. Robert Brook, vice president and director of RAND Health, received the David E. Rogers Award, granted annually to a member of a medical school faculty who has made major contributions to improving the health and health care of the American people.

RAND Corporation Washington Office Voted 'Great Place to Work'

2007-11-01T00:00:00Z

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."

RAND and UCLA School of Law Form Alliance for Law and Public Policy

2007-10-30T00:00:00Z

The RAND Corporation and the UCLA School of Law have formed a strategic alliance to improve public policy through the marriage of rigorous policy analysis and outstanding legal scholarship.

RAND Congratulates Hurwicz, Lempert for 2007 Nobel Awards

2007-10-19T00:00:00Z

Early RAND consultant Leonid Hurwicz shared the Nobel Prize in Economics with Eric S. Maskin and Roger B. Myerson. Robert Lempert, Senior Physical Scientist at RAND, was a contributor to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace along with Vice President Al Gore.

New RAND Europe Research Team to Focus on Information Economy

2007-10-09T00:00:00Z

RAND Europe has established an Information Policy & Economics team to help European policy and decision makers in the public and private sectors address challenges posed by new information and communication technologies, and innovative applications.