2009-11-09T16:28:25Z Copyright (c) 2007-2008, The RAND Corporation Bricolage RAND Corporation urn:uuid:F22387B0-4FF8-11DB-A406-35351D4D57CE urn:uuid:8DA51A40-C88D-11DE-A0F8-F82E39788F35 2009-11-03T00:00:00Z 2009-11-03T00:00:00Z

Veteran fund-raising professional Michael Brennan has joined the RAND Corporation as executive director of development. Brennan, who will be based at RAND's Santa Monica headquarters, will oversee RAND's institutional and programmatic fund-raising efforts.

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James P. Smith holds the RAND Chair in Labor Markets and Demographic Studies and was Director of RAND's Labor and Population Studies Program from 1977-1994. He recently received the 2009 Ulysses Medal from University College Dublin, an award given to "individuals whose work has made an outstanding global contribution."

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Early RAND consultant Oliver Williamson shared the Nobel Prize in Economics with Elinor Ostrom. Oliver was a RAND consultant during the sixties.

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On September 24-25, 2009, leaders of 19 countries and the European Union will take stock of progress made since the prior summits in Washington and London. RAND experts will participate in a number of related events.

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"My husband and I decided to fund a largescale analysis, using scientists at RAND and UCLA, to identify the criteria for best end-of-life treatments. It is our hope that patients with terminal illnesses will be treated effectively, efficiently, and empathetically by teams of well-trained practitioners."

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Lois Davis has nearly two decades of experience directing public safety and public health research. She is currently leading research projects on prisoner reentry in California and on the impact of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on law enforcement.

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Amb. James Dobbins, former Special Envoy to Afghanistan for President George W. Bush and director of International Security at RAND, is the featured participant in a news conference call on Friday, August 21 at 10 a.m. ET about the presidential election in Afghanistan.

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Pedro José Greer, Jr, was awarded the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom. The award was given, in part, due to Greer's work with the Camillus Health Concern, an agency providing medical care to over 10,000 homeless and low-income patients annually.

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The Internet Society (ISOC) today awarded the Jonathan B. Postel Service Award for 2009 to CSNET (the Computer Science Network), a critical progenitor to the Internet, co-founded by long-time RAND staff member Anthony C. Hearn.

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Elizabeth McGlynn was just named one of the 100 most creative and influential innovators working in healthcare today. As associate director of RAND Health, McGlynn oversees strategic development, external dissemination, and communications of the results of the RAND Health research portfolio.

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Four leaders with backgrounds in government service and private enterprise have been elected to the RAND Corporation Board of Trustees: former House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt, Sony Pictures Entertainment chairman and CEO Michael Lynton, former Secretary of the Navy Richard Danzig and semiconductor executive Hector Ruiz.

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The RAND Corporation announced today that it has revised the suggested retail pricing on all RAND e-books to $9.95 each. RAND e-books are available through a wide variety of wholesale and retail partners.

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Paul G. Kaminski, a technology company executive and former Pentagon official, has been elected chairman of the RAND Corporation Board of Trustees. Kaminski is chairman and CEO of Technovation, Inc., an advanced technology consulting company.

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"Our family is proud to sponsor recent RAND work in Israel to explore energy alternatives and to aid the Israeli government with long-range planning. We are heartened to see that Israeli officials are now eager for RAND to conduct more research there on a variety of subjects."

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One of RAND Europe's senior advisors, Professor Martin Roland CBE, has accepted the position of professor of health services research within the University of Cambridge's School of Clinical Medicine. He will continue his role at RAND Europe in Cambridge UK, as special advisor to the health and healthcare research team.

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Ellen Nolte, formerly senior lecturer at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, has joined RAND Europe as the new director of the health and healthcare team. Nolte's appointment builds on the strength of RAND Europe's existing health and healthcare team.

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James Fox is a Senior Analyst in the Modelling team and Deputy Quality Assurance (QA) Manager at RAND Europe and has been working at RAND Europe's Cambridge office since its inauguration in 2001.

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Former government and business leader Andrew Weiss has been named executive director of the RAND Business Leaders Forum and the director of the RAND Center for Russia and Eurasia, RAND Corporation President and CEO James A. Thomson announced today.

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Bruce Nardulli, a senior political scientist with the RAND Corporation, has been named the new director of the RAND-Qatar Policy Institute, RAND President and CEO James A. Thomson announced today. Nardulli will begin his duties July 1. The current director, Richard Darilek, will return to RAND's Washington, D.C., office in August.

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John G. Drew is a Senior Project Associate for Project AIR FORCE and has been with RAND since 2003, at which time he had already been working with researchers from PAF's Resource Management program for six years. That connection was first made in 1997, when John was superintendent of the Aircraft Maintenance and Munitions Division at the Air Force Logistics Management Agency (AFLMA) in Alabama.