2014 Report to the Board of Governorsbe the Susan L.answer Marquis, Dean 2014 Dean’s report 2014

PARDEE RAND GRADUATE SCHOOL year in review “ a betterplace:tobe theanswer. a difference andmake theworld tomake intelligence, andheart them withindividual talents, Graduate Schoolandcombining gained atthePardee RAND tools, experience,andeducation Each graduateistakingthe has made a commitment to all do they can has made acommitment Europe, Middle the East—each and Africa, to America South and North world—from the around officers policymakers, military and researchers, as educators, opportunities Ph.D. graduates. to they on new As go new careers achievements new and of 30 of we celebrated commencement the importantly, Most to David Maxwell-Jolly. Leadership Award Alumni the with presented particularly manytheir accomplishments, recognized and alumni back our welcomed level, amore personal Elizabeth On we Dole. speaker commencement worldwider with degree, place our in and a honorary an as we recognized Lloyd Shapley with Corporation RAND of the pride in being part tribute to founding Wolf, Charles dean our legacy the and founders through of our our to recognize graduate the school’s history weekend allowed2014 us commencement aremarkablewhat we institution have. Our to step back appreciate and opportunity that we have It the is at commencement was, as always, highlight the year. of our year! grand summer’s celebration The acommencement be must School—It Graduategraduates Pardee of the RAND LloydCharlie Shapley, Beck, 37 and new Wolf,Charles Marshall, , Andy Dean the from Message Susan L.Marquis In addition, asyou’ll read pages in the of Samantha’s experience. and enthusiasm Wang board, the has joined building on term, Ravich her Hui completing Samantha Board With of Governors. Pardeethe RAND representative alumni throughand our on Committee, Advisory Association new Alumni gatherings across country, the through our weand insight their collect advice and through play community akey role Pardee in the RAND new graduatesour 2014. throughout Alumni We’ve legacy built promise our of the and on answer. place: makeand world abetter the to the be intelligence, to make adifference heart and individual with talents, them combining and Graduate School at Pardee the RAND experience,tools, gained education and the is Each taking accomplishments. arebut limited not by predecessors’ their inspired have by before, who those gone to place. make world abetter the left They this report, we have welcomed numerous but to RAND researchers who can take alumni back to the graduate school to meet advantage of the academic freedom of the with students and provide both advice and graduate school. Additionally, these initiatives models of careers that make a difference. are making it possible for the school to bring visiting scholars and practitioners to RAND Michael Rich, RAND’s president, has been to teach, to learn, and to collaborate with the clear that the school not only brings the talent Pardee RAND community. of our students to RAND but also acts as an engine of innovation for the organization. The As you can see, there is a lot going on at school offers students, faculty, and RAND the graduate school. I invite you to spend researchers the opportunity to think and some time with this 2014 Dean’s Report. engage outside of RAND’s traditional client- Get to know our students, learn about the sponsored work. This vision about the unique research of our faculty, and take pride in the role of the school within RAND is coming to accomplishments of our alumni. Most of all, life through the Pardee Initiative for Global I hope you’ll discover something you didn’t Human Progress, the Harold and Colene know and something that excites you about Brown Faculty Fellowships, and the John the school and where we’re headed. and Carol Cazier Initiative for Environmental —Susan L. Marquis and Energy Sustainability. These programs provide not only support to student research

Pardee RAND is unique in thatbe our program the transforms answer students into “scholar-practitioners who learn to produce positive social change for individuals, families, and entire populations around the world. . . . Taking a broad international view to policy analysis opens our fellows to new paradigms of thinking which in turn positions them to make important contributions to global change.

Emma Aguila, Pardee RAND Faculty 3 cohort The 2014 2014 The By the Numbers 21 21 entering students 33 percent of the new cohort hails from outside the 33 6 countries of origin: China, Czech Republic, India, Mexico, 6 Ukraine, and the United States 1 first-time country of origin: Czech Republic 1 38 percent female 38 71 percent hold advanced degrees, including JD, MA, MD, MS, MPA, MPH, and MPP 71 70 days alone on a bicycle for one student to arrive at Pardee RAND 70 from Chicago (via Vancouver!) 1 new member of the Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra (violin) 1 1 1 combat pilot Experience Support for Incoming Cohorts:

• Abt Associates, Inc. Full-Tuition Scholarships • Boeing and Mentoring • Bryan Cave LLP • Catholic Relief Services The first-year students from cohort ’14, as well • Delhi Policy Group as the second-year students from cohort ’13, • Fundación IDEA are the first two cohorts in which all eligible • Georgetown University students received full-tuition scholarships in • Hope and Homes for Children (Ukraine) year one and partial tuition in year two. These • Indian Institute of Public Health scholarships help students achieve three • Institute for Defense Analyses major goals: (1) Earn more money from their • Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation fellowship that is not lost to taxes, (2) incur less • Johns Hopkins Primary Care Policy Center • National Health and Family Planning Commission debt as they move through their Ph.D. studies, of the People’s Republic of China and (3) potentially meet requirements quicker • PricewaterhouseCoopers and graduate sooner. • RAND Europe • University of North Carolina In addition to our faculty advisors and peer • USAID mentors, the past two incoming cohorts have • U.S. Air Force Academy also benefited from our continued on-the-job • U.S. Department of Health and Human Services training mentoring program that subsidizes • World Health Organization time for researchers to mentor new students on Non-English Languages Spoken (16): RAND project work and provides three days to students to work with these researchers. • Arabic • German • Marathi • Spanish • Chinese • Hindi • Portuguese • Ukrainian • Czech • Kannada • Russian • Urdu • French • Konkani • Slovak • Vietnamese 5 commencement weekend Nobel laureate, longtimeRANDresearcher, and Law atStanford LawSchool;andLloydShapley, H.SweetProfessorPetersilia, theAdelbert of RANDalumnaJoan Angeles PoliceDepartment; well asCharles“Charlie”Beck, chiefoftheLos degreesHonorary were awarded toDole,as solutions.” simply tocollectdata,butprovide abasisfor facts. Thepointofresearch andanalysisisnot is asessentialyour abilityto assemble the your abilityto tell astory basedonthefacts “And thatsoberingthoughtleadsmetosay courseofaction.” particular topursue a use oramendthefactsasnecessary Instead, youwillfindthatmanypeopleeither the analysis,facts‘speakforthemselves.’ you mayhaveforthenotionthathavingdone said. “ButIwantyoutodiscard anyaffection compelling research andkeenanalysis,”Dole policy mustbegrounded inandguidedby fiberofmybeingthatsound “I believewithevery which wasattendedbymore than350people. degrees were awarded duringtheceremony, degrees inpublicpolicyanalysisand39master’s School commencement.Atotalof30doctoral featured speakeratthePardee RANDGraduate related U.S.SenatorElizabethDole,the former world, theyalsohavetobeabletellastory, for policyanalyststomakeadifference inthereal Facts andobjectiveanalysisarebut important, Commencement has thegranderview?” ends, themicroscope begins.Whichofthetwo and novelistVictorHugo:“Where thetelescope He citedapassagefrom French author, poet, RAND projects whilecompletingtheirdegrees. provided bythegraduate students,whoworkon RAND analystswiththefresh perspectives and valuableassettoRAND,”helpingenergize described thegraduateschoolasa“distinctive Michael Rich,president and CEOofRAND, our lives.” to leadinginstitutionsessentialthefabricof problems facingournation andtheworld understanding tothepersistentandcomplex people whohavegiventheirlivestobringingnew the ‘coreingametheory. theory’ Theseare of prisonersreentering society, anddeveloped security decisionmaking,improved oursupport space exploration,brought analysistonational provide healthcare tomillionsofpeople,enabled made remarkable contributionstoourability your RANDcolleaguesandouralumni,have and manyothersinthisaudienceamong Marquis, whoremarked, “Theseexemplars, charged tobetheanswer byDeanSusanL. RAND asanothergroup ofgraduateswere ceremony recognizing thefuture ofPardee the legacyofitsfounders,culminatingina of eventscelebratingtheschool’s and history Commencement weekendincludedaseries Los Angeles. professor emeritusattheUniversityofCalifornia, Charles Wolf (right, center) and David Maxwell-Jolly (below) were honored at the celebratory dinner that brought commencement weekend to a close.

Jack William Clift, who presented the student address, said the graduate school’s “be the answer” slogan “captures what many believe to be the quintessence of the school, evoking, as it does, the timeless gentle wisdom of Mahatma Gandhi . . . combined with the unrelenting ass-kicking attitude of a Nike running commercial.”

Weekend Events The evening continued with a celebratory Commencement weekend began on Thursday dinner, honoring the following: evening with an inaugural alumni at a local restaurant, and continued on Friday with Charles Wolf, Jr., Pardee RAND founding dean, a policy dialogue featuring honorary degree a longtime professor at the Graduate School, recipients Beck and Petersilia, along with Pardee noted RAND economist and researcher, public RAND alumna (cohort ’98) Angela Hawken, servant, and top advisor to business and an associate professor of public policy at government, for whom the school established Pepperdine University. Dean Marquis moderated a tribute fund. the discussion, which focused on criminal justice Andrew W. Marshall, who started as a RAND issues in California and the nation. economist at age 28 and has since gone on to provide national security research for four decades as Director of the U.S. Department of Defense’s Office of Net Assessment, serving as a top strategist to Defense Secretaries, for whom the school established a scholarship endowment.

David Maxwell-Jolly, cohort ’77, recipient of the Alumni Leadership Award. Maxwell-Jolly’s work on the Golden State’s implementation of the Affordable Care Act resulted in one of the nation’s most successful portals for a health care insurance exchange. His significant contributions to this and other aspects of California governance demonstrate a deep knowledge and passion for public policy, exemplary of Pardee RAND and its mission to “be the answer.”

Former U.S. Senator Elizabeth Dole (above) delivered the keynote commencement address for 2014.

Honorary degree recipients Joan Petersilia and Charlie Beck engaged in a policy dialogue with Pardee RAND alumna Angela Hawken as part of commencement weekend’s scheduled events.

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t t t t t o o o o o p p p p p i i i i i c c c c c Monitoring Monitoring Reducing the Youth Positive Three Essays Medical New Mustafa Oguz Jesse Sussell Ph.D. date October 2014 Ph.D. date March 2014 Position Research Associate III, Position Senior Quantitative Evidera Ltd, Lexington, MA Associate, Social Policy Research Dissertation topic Improving Associates, Oakland, CA Turkish-Iraqi Border Security: Dissertation topic Changing An Agent-Based Modeling and Constituencies and Rising Simulation Approach Polarization in the Congress: Three Essays Ashley Pierson Ph.D. date October 2014 Nolan Sweeney Position Researcher, Education Ph.D. date October 2014 Northwest/Harvard Strategic Data Position Officer, United States Air Project, Portland, OR Force, Sheppard, Texas Dissertation topic What Makes Dissertation topic Predicting a Successful School Principal? Active-Duty Air Force Pilot Attrition Incorporating School Principal Given an Anticipated Increase in Background in State and District Major Airline Pilot Hiring Policy Caroline Tassot Michael Scarpati Ph.D. date June 2014 Ph.D. date October 2014 Position Associate Economist, Position Algorithm and R&D University of Southern California, Scientist Engineer, American Playa Vista, CA International Group, New York, NY Dissertation topic Three Essays on Dissertation topic Designing Subjective Well-Being Efficient Systematic Reviews Using Jennifer Walters Economical Allocation, Creation, and Ph.D. date October 2014 Synthesis of Medical Evidence Position Pilot Trainee, United States Ethan Scherer Air Force, Columbus, MS Ph.D. date October 2014 Dissertation topic The Relationship Position Associate Economist, Between Post-Traumatic Stress Precision Health Economics, Disorder (PTSD) Symptoms and Boston, MA Career Outcomes of Army Enlisted Dissertation topic Three Essays Servicemembers on Education Reform in the Dan Waxman United States Ph.D. date December 2013 Sinduja Srinivasan Position Visiting Associate Ph.D. date October 2014 Professor, University of California, Position Economic Affairs Officer, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA Economic Commission for Latin Dissertation topic The Impact America and the Caribbean, of Tort Reform, Medicare Plan Santiago, Chile Choice, and Geography on Health Dissertation topic Essays Care Processes, Outcomes, and on Family Welfare and Indian Expenditures Development Policy

9 alumni highlights RAND, andbothare facultyatPardee RAND. researcher andJordan isapolicyresearcher at Bureau ofReclamation.David isaseniorpolicy Demand Study, bytheU.S. whichwassupported options fortheColoradoRiverWater Supplyand future risksofclimatechange andadaptation Authority’s CoastalMasterPlan,andevaluated Louisiana CoastalProtection andRestoration toolforthe framework anddecisionsupport Authority. Theyrecently developedaplanning the LouisianaCoastalProtection Restoration two majorprojects ontheColoradoRiver and agencies throughout theUnitedStates,including work withclimatechangeanditsimpactonwater Fischbach ’04)havedoneextensive (cohort David Groves ’01)andJordan (cohort mission to“betheanswer.” ambassadorforPardeeexemplary RANDandits thrilled thathereceived thisaward. Heisatruly knowledge andpassionforpolicy, andweare demonstrateadeep ofCalifornia the betterment for otherstates.Hissignificantcontributionsto health care andanexample exchangeportals, resulted inoneofthenation’s mostsuccessful the Affordable CarAct.David’s workonthisfront successful response totheimplementationof HealthExchange,California’sof theCalifornia David wasthechiefdeputyexecutivedirector care systems.Mostrecently, andchildsupport improvements toanumberofCalifornia’s health and implementingdirecting significant working onavarietyofhealthcare issues, an exceptionalcareerservice, ingovernment over commencementweekend.Davidhasled Leadership Award dinner duringthecelebratory with theprestigious 2014Pardee RANDAlumni David Maxwell-Jolly ’77)waspresented (cohort Thinking Conservative.” “The Father’s Example,”and“SmellingLiberal, HelpingtheHelpers,” including“Start articles, of theNewYork Times,hehaswrittenseveral Bloomberg Businessweek,Reuters,andothers. intheNewYork articles important Times, food policyresearch hasbeencitedinseveral Food Policy&ObesityatYale University. Her of economicinitiativesattheRuddCenterfor published ontoday.uconn.edu. Tatiana isdirector Purchasing PowertoLowerObesityRates,” titled“DollarstoPounds:Boosting an article Tatiana Andreyeva ’01)recently (cohort authored Institute forStatistics,basedinMontreal, Canada. recently appointeddirector oftheUNESCO of educationalqualityinthecountry. Silviawas the creation ofthefirstcomprehensive index of Education,sheledtheteamresponsible for Argentina. AttheMinistry Universidad Católica at theUniversityPontificia researcher andprofessor of Educationanda Buenos Aires’ Ministry quality evaluationsat director ofeducational ’06)hasbeen (cohort Silvia Montoya on theopinionpages contributing op-edwriter policy issues.Asa enterprise, andother freeon government, books andarticles authored numerous Institute (AEI).Hehas the AmericanEnterprise ’96) isthepresident of Brooks Arthur (cohort Inaugural AAAC Members Yilmaz Argüden ’80: Chairman, ARGE Consulting

Diana Epstein, ’06: Senior Research Analyst, Alumni Association Corporation for National and Community Service Advisory Committee Sam Loeb, ’01: Senior Program Manager, Google

We are pleased to announce the creation of Mark Perry, ’92: Chief, Manpower Division, the Pardee RAND Alumni Association Advisory U.S. Army Medical Command Committee (AAAC). This committee comprises Larry Picus, ’84: Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs and nine exceptional alumni who represent a variety Professor, University of Southern California Rossier of backgrounds and cohorts, and who provide a School of Education voice for Pardee RAND alumni on critical issues facing the school. Samantha Ravich, ’92: Senior Advisor, The Chertoff Group AAAC members will advise on important school decisions and provide a sounding board to the Alex Rohozynsky, ’00: Senior Evaluations Lead, deans on important matters such as profile-raising, DAI (Development Alternatives, Inc.) recruitment, career services, student mentorship, Anna-Marie Vilamovska, ’05: Secretary for Science and fundraising. We hope that this committee and Healthcare, Administration of the President of will help us to deepen and expand relationships the Republic of Bulgaria with all alumni, and we look forward to seeing the impact that this initiative will have on Pardee RAND Josh Weed, ’01: Vice President, Director of and our extraordinary alumni community. Budgets, Stewart and Stevenson LLC

Pardee RAND Alumni Events in FY14

November 2013 – Washington, DC April 2014 – New York, New York Association for Public Policy Analysis and Alumni lunch hosted by Dean Susan L. Marquis Management (APPAM) reception with students and June 2014 – Santa Monica, California alumni, hosted by Associate Dean Rachel Swanger Career Services Alumni-Student Mixer December 2013 – Santa Monica, California Commencement Weekend Alumni Dinner Holiday Party at Pardee RAND Commencement Ceremony Washington, DC September 2014 – Washington, DC Holiday lunch with alumni, hosted by Alumni lunch hosted by Dean Susan L. Marquis Dean Susan L. Marquis October 2014 – Boston, Massachussets March 2014 – Santa Monica, California Alumni Lunch hosted by Dean Susan L. Marquis Pardee RAND and RAND Alumni Event – Santa Monica, California A Conversation with Karen Elliott House 10-year anniversary of the new RAND Building

11 board of governors accented Russian andhisloveofmetaphors, posed a torrent. This,coupledwithhisheavilyGeorgian- enthusiasm wouldtakehold andhiswords camein tohissubject, Neu added.“Ashewarmed butalwayswithaseriousunderlyingmessage,” terms offering extendedinterventionscouchedinhumorous October 1997.“HewasafavoriteatForummeetings, Forum, whichKakhaattended,wasinMoscow Professor Richard Neu.Thefirstmeetingofthe late Pardee RANDprofessor] Jeremy Azrael,”notes RAND BusinessLeadersForum)organizedby[the Business LeadersForum(whatwenowcallthe role asafoundingmember oftheRussian-America “He firstbecameconnectedtoRANDthrough his producer ofheavymachinery. of OMZGruppaUralmash-Izhora,Russia’s biggest 1990s andservingatonepointasgeneraldirector inRussiathe businessman, amassinghisfortune Bendukidze wastrainedasabiologistbutbecame made betterwillbesorely missed.” ranging insightsaboutourworldandhowitcanbe whose excellentcounsel,goodhumor, andwide- “Kakha wasagenerous, brilliant,forward-thinker RAND community,” saidDeanSusanMarquis. to thefamilyofthisesteemedmemberPardee Bendukidze Kakha become anincreasingly influentialinstitutionofhigherlearning. oureffortsto helpsoptimizethe graduate schoolexperienceforourstudentsandsupports Governors arise.ThisreportcontainsspecificexamplesofhowtheBoardneeded mostandwhenopportunities of unrestricted andflexibilitytousemoneywhere funds:Theyunderstandourneedforstudentsupport itis Members oftheBoardare providersand ofGovernors alsoprimary ofscholarships,dissertations, us becomeanengineofinnovationatRAND. ourapproachsupports toattractingandretaining thebestandbrightestfrom around theworld,andhelps the board reviews andoverseesourbudget,offers counseltohelpensure thequalityofourcurriculum, overarching objectivetocreateauthority, thenextgenerationofpolicyleaders.Withdelegatedgovernance also with“friend-raising”—introducing othersintothePardee RANDcommunitysothatwecanachieveour gifts, asolidfinancialfoundationfrom whichwecanoperate.Theyhelpusnotjustwithfundraisingbut serve asstrategicadvisors,offeringbutalso,through notonlytheirideasandexpertise theirgenerous The role ofthePardee RANDGraduateSchoolBoard cannotbeoverstated.Board ofGovernors members in remembrance and sendourcondolences “We are deeplysaddened He was58. away onNovember13,2014. Board passed ofGovernors, member ofthePardee RAND the nationofGeorgiaanda reformer, andstatesmanin businessman, political Kakha Bendukidze,a republics. Pardee RANDbyPh.D.aspirantsfromSoviet former studyat scientist atRAND.Thatscholarship supports on theRussianeconomyand alongtimepolitical ofAzrael,atopexpert a scholarshipinmemory Bendukidze alsowasagenerous of supporter Russia. from Georgia,Ukraine,Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan,and nations, hasasteadystream ofqualityapplicants doctoral candidatesfrom more thantwodozen the RANDCorporation.Thegraduateschool,with an independentpublicpolicyresearch organization— in theUnitedStatesandonlyprogram basedat Pardee RAND,thelargest publicpolicyPh.D.program candidates from Sovietrepublics theformer with Bendukidze helpedtoconnectaspiringpublicpolicy A manofmanynotableaccomplishments, Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko. In May, hewasappointedadviseronreformeffortsto Georgia andbuildingthemintorespected institutions. University ofTbilisiandtheAgricultural to education,foundingandinvestingintheFree servicein2009,heturned After leavinggovernment and corruption. graft liberal reformerandopponentofgovernmental areputation posts,andearned as various government Bendukidze wasnamedeconomicsminister, held ofMikheilSaakashvilitopower.the government 2003 afterGeorgia’s popular“RoseRevolution”swept Bendukidze returned tohisbelovednativelandin interpreters couldcatchup.” regularly begKakhatoslowdownsothatthe simultaneous interpreters. Jeremy Azraelwould a severe challengeforeventhemostaccomplished Being part of the Pardee RAND community is an honor and a shared sense of “responsibility because we all have a direct, personal interest in ensuring that policy decisions are made wisely. Nothing is more important for determining the kind of world we are building for ourselves and leaving for future generations.” Pedro José Greer

Pedro José Greer, Jr., M.D. (Chair) Daniel Grunfeld Donald B. Rice Associate Dean for Community Engagement Leader, West Coast Litigation Practice Retired President and Chief Executive Officer Florida International University College of Morgan, Lewis & Brockius, LLP Agensys, Inc. Medicine B. Kipling Hagopian Former U.S. Secretary of the Air Force Trustee Trustee Managing Director RAND Corporation RAND Corporation Apple Oaks Partners, LLC John Seely Brown Eugene S. Rosenfeld James B. Lovelace Cochair President Director Center for the Edge, Deloitte LLP ForestLane Group Capital Group Companies, Inc. Cofounder Senior Vice President Sharon Stevenson Institute for Research on Learning Capital Research Global Investors Cofounder and Managing Director Jane Cavalier Okapi Venture Capital, LLC Michael Lynton Founder and Chief Executive Officer Chief Executive Officer Hui Wang BrightMark Corporate Directioning and Brand Sony Entertainment, Inc. President and Chief Executive Officer Consulting Chairman and Chief Executive Officer First China Capital, Inc. Robert A. Eckert Sony Pictures Entertainment Faye Wattleton Chairman Emeritus Trustee Managing Director Mattel, Inc. RAND Corporation Alvarez & Marsal Director William E. Mayer Pacific Council on International Policy Cofounder and Partner Ex Officio Thomas E. Epley Park Avenue Equity Partners Partner (retired) R. Preston McAfee Michael D. Rich Vance Street Capital Director, Strategic Technologies President and Chief Executive Officer Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Google RAND Corporation Technicolor Inc. Visiting Professor of Economics Director California Institute of Technology As of November 2014 Secure Communication Systems Corporation Director Dana G. Mead Semicoa Corporation Chairman Emeritus The MIT Corporation Francis Fukuyama Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow Santiago Morales The Freeman Spogli Institute for International President Studies Maxiforce Inc. Center on Democracy, Development, and the Frederick S. Pardee Rule of Law Investor Stanford University Trustee RAND Corporation 13 The PARDEE RAND Team social media“likes”and“follows.” substantial growth initsworldwideaudiencewith of intriguingTweets, Pardee RAND hasseen With dailyFacebookpostsandasteadystream as theschoolbuildsitssocialmediapresence. recognized ofTwitter part andFacebookparlance, Meanwhile, #pardeerand hasbecomea blog posts. program timely forPh.D.students,andsmart, aboutourcareerinformation development students,detailed special pageforinternational content abouttheschool.Recentlyaddedwasa of interest, multimedia,andoverallstrong navigation toadmissionsorotherinformation news oftheday, upcomingevents,easy It engagesvisitorswithuseful,snappycontent— appealing andsimplertonavigatesearch. www.rand.org. Ournewsiteismore visually the recent changestotheRANDcorporatesite, web presence, www.prgs.edu , inkeepingwith for example,thegraduateschoolredesigned its messages, 24/7,withpolicycommunities.In2014, communication channelstoshare theschool’s activities across anarrayofcontemporary RAND teamshavesteppeduptheiroutreach As audiencesgloballyhaveflockedonline,Pardee Global Technology for Greater RAND Pardee O utre ach H arne sses sses throughout theworld. spread theschool’s messagetoaudiences viewed more than3,000times,helpingto In oneyear, theoverviewvideohasbeen topics ofinterest. on findinformation those scouringtheInternet channel onYouTube—itself oneofthetopways “Pardee ofRAND’s RANDPlaylist,”whichispart studies. Thevideoshaveproved popular onthe research experienceintheirpublicpolicy including howPh.D.candidatesgetreal-life fortellingPardeenew platform RAND’s story, give students,faculty, andotheracademicsa videos provide anoverviewoftheschooland compelling videosonitswebsite.These Pardee RANDhasalsobegunposting Multimedia Social Media

Our LinkedIn and Facebook presences are robust and stronger than ever.

• Our private LinkedIn alumni group provides an active and current digital network of over 270 top professionals on public policy connected to Pardee RAND.

• The Pardee RAND Facebook page has grown to more than 1,000 fans (a 40 percent increase).

• We have daily posts on Facebook and an engaged international audience of students, alumni, faculty, staff, and prospective students. Dean Marquis and other faculty, students, and alumni have very active Twitter feeds that discuss policy issues and share highlights and photos of ongoing daily life at the School; including live Tweeting from Commencement!

Pardee RAND Graduate School Staff

Susan L. Marquis, Dean Stefanie Howard, Director of Admissions and Academic Services Rachel Swanger, Associate Dean Maura Krah, Director of Development Gery Ryan, Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs Ira Krinsky, Career Services Counselor Susan Arick, Administrative Assistant Mary Parker, Registrar Maggie Clay, Financial Aid and Budget Administrator, International Student Advisor Jennifer Prim, Executive Assistant to the Dean Evelyn Fees, Associate Director of Development Meagan Ramirez, Administrative Assistant Brianna Gauff, Administrative Assistant, Adriane Reams, Administrative Assistant Development Kristina Wallace, Program Coordinator

15 studEnt leadership accomplishments, they during the2013–2014academicyear. Amongtheir The Brokerage pursuedanumberofobjectives and Population). and Caroline Tassot andMarlonGraf(RANDLabor Burkhauser andMollieRudnick(RANDEducation); programs projects); andinternational Susan Efron andJenniferWalters (for defense-related John CaloyerasandJodiLiu(RANDHealth);Shira (for RANDJustice,Infrastructure, andEnvironment); Brokers forthepastyearwere ShmuelAbramzon (OJT) experiencesforstudentsandresearchers. The divisions tofacilitatepositiveon-the-jobtraining The OJTBrokers workwithRAND’s research O with theCareer Developmentstaff. Events suchas through seminarsandotheractivitiesincollaboration facilitate anexplorationofa varietyofcareer paths to The student-runCSACidentifies opportunities Committee (CSAC) Career Services Advisory • • • • • •

project work. project res organized preterm policy seminars with RAND Europe.hosted event an RAND about dis conducted apanel event options on for disseminated postings for project work. pr encouraged students to maintain their online given. n the deployed survey to determine annual the OJT JT Brokers ofiles, which helps for opportunities maximize sertation funding. sertation earchers. ature of and quality work students are accomplishments, CoCom and JonWong. Amongthis year’s many Gutierrez, Yasho Rana,NolanSweeney, year 2013–2014were Ben Batorsky, Carlos entire academicyear. Membersfrom academic inthefallandservethrougheach cohort the building. Representatives are electedfrom mechanism forcommunicationandcommunity- School’s administrationandservesasa the gapbetweenstudentbodyand The Coordinating Committee (CoCom)bridges CoCom and MelissaFelician. John Caloyeras,JuliaPollak,MollieRudnick, academic year2013–2014were Eric Warner, Students whoservedonthecommitteefor discussion abouthissector-spanning career. ’85)alsovisitedtheSchoolfora Nation (cohort Harvard StrategicDataProject; alumnusJoe Education DevelopmentCenter, andthe LegislativeAnalyst’sthe California Office, Group, thePublicPolicyInstituteofCalifornia, Highlights includedvisitsbytheWorld Bank were heldthroughout theacademicyear. recruiting sessions,andcareer interest groups alumni careerand talks,employerinformation • representative’s term. representative’s transition by staggering at-large the me updated mechanism the for electing new mbers to ensure acomprehensive • revised the committee’s guiding document, the “CoComstitution,” to better reflect CoCom’s responsibilities and budgeting process.

• hosted small-group lunches for first-year Student Mentors students at the beginning of winter quarter As in prior years, continuing students volunteered to provide them a venue for discussing their to serve as peer mentors for incoming students; progress through the academic year. these mentors were available to offer advice on • hosted a chili cook-off/bake-off in navigating the first year, balancing the workload, November. getting through qualifying exams, finding OJT,

• held quarterly CoCom lunches to bring living in Los Angeles, and more. Mentors were students and faculty together. helpful resources to the incoming cohort in making a smooth transition to student life at Pardee RAND. • implemented an ArcGIS workshop in response to requests from the student body.

• held regular meetings with the deans.

• led elections for Outstanding Teaching Assistant and Huddleson Teaching Award.

• assisted with qualifying exams: delivered lunches to first-year students during exams and organized a happy hour to celebrate the completion of quals week.

• represented student body (with CSAC and the OJT Brokers) during meetings with external program reviewers Jim Steinberg and Alan Krueger.

• hosted happy hour and other activities during orientation week and admitted students’ weekend.

Continuing the tradition, CoCom organized a beachside barbecue to welcome students of the 2014 cohort to Pardee RAND and Southern California.

17 EVENTS 2014 Summer Faculty Workshop participants Workshop Faculty 2014 Summer students. policy analysisintotheirteachingandmentoringof workshop projects andtoincorporatethetoolsof faculty are alreadydeveloptheir workingtofurther in healthpolicy, andothers.Severalofourguest chronic diseaserelated toobesity, technology American males,schoolreformintheurbansouth, in highereducation,unemploymentofAfrican- issues, includingunderrepresented minorities tackledarangeofpolicy the week.Participants could thenapplythesetechniquestothroughout to arrivewithapolicyissueinmindthatthey to themethodsofpolicyanalysis.Eachwasasked Santa Monicaforthisrigorous weekofexposure of12guestfacultyto welcomed itssecondcohort During thethird weekofJuly, Pardee RAND public policyanalysis. and perspectivestothestudypracticeof Pardee tobringdiverseexperiences RANDeffort The SummerFacultyWorkshop ofthe ispart Faculty Workshop Summer hold. policies inWest Bengalandwhatthefuture may University lookedattheeffects oflandreform November 22, 2013: DilipMookherjeeofBoston spur economicdevelopment andprosperity. technological catch-upandleapfrogging neededto technologiesforthe thepowerofplatform harness discussed strategiesforenablingAfricato March 7, 2014 : Harvard’s CalestousJuma developing countries. vital debateontheindividualrightsofpeoplein that developmenthaslongsuppressed the the recent bookTheTyranny, argued ofExperts April 15, 2014 : WilliamEasterly(above),authorof of climatechange. discussed howtomanagethehumanhealthrisks May 13, 2014: Stanford University’s KristiEbi and not-neutralassistance. on decentralization,private-publiccollaboration, ofU.S.nationalsecurityobjectivesbased support providing privatedevelopmentassistanceindirect May 27, 2014: JimHakediscussedanewmodelof andthemobilityofwealth. possibility ofearnings develop economicmodelsthatincorporateboththe to in developingcountriesandwhyitisimportant Stephen Turnovsky discussedincomeinequality June 24, 2014: UniversityofWashington professor discuss current issuesinthefield: number ofhigh-profile speakerstoPardee RANDto The IDSShadanothersuccessfulyear, bringinga Spe I nternational Development Development nternational aker Series ( I DSS ) Moorsteen Lecture Series: Eric Schlosser

Schlosser, the author of Fast Food Nation, Reefer Madness, and the recent Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety, visited in February. Lynn Davis, then-director of RAND’s Washington, D.C., office, discussed Command and Control with Schlosser in front of a packed house.

Other Accomplishments Support for Student Travel Student Adam Singer presented at the American Participation in Conferences Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) 2014 Annual Assembly in March in San A record number of students received funding Diego. His presentation, “Going Less Gently into over the past year to present their research at That Good Night? Worsening Symptom Trends in professional and academic conferences. During the Last Year of Life, 1998–2010,” received the fiscal year 2014, 30 students were granted AAHPM Investigator Paper Award in the Student a total of nearly $15,000 to serve on panels, Category. present papers, or share posters at a variety of conferences throughout the United States and Student and Ukrainian citizen Olena Bogdan led a overseas. discussion in January on the upheaval in Ukraine in an event at RAND titled “Unrest in Ukraine: Causes and a Path Forward.” The discussion On-the-Job Training/ was moderated by Pardee RAND alumnus Ted Dissertation Travel Harshberger (cohort ’86), vice president and For the first time, Pardee RAND students also had director of RAND Project Air Force. the opportunity to apply for funding to support Southwestern Law School student Rebecca Ann travel to other RAND offices for the purpose of Simon was presented this past summer with a strengthening relationships with researchers at Certificate in Public Policy from Pardee RAND. She those sites. Twenty-three students were able to is the first Southwestern student to complete the take advantage of this funding, receiving more certificate program, a collaboration between the than $28,000 in total. Students and researchers two schools. alike benefited from this funding, as the students were able to participate in a range of activities, including client meetings and in-depth discussions of dissertation plans.

Dean’s Leadership Circle

The Dean’s Leadership Circle includes select Frank Baxter Lynda and Stewart Resnick RAND trustees, former Pardee RAND board Keith B. Bickel, Ph.D. James F. Rothenberg members, and key alumni, stakeholders, and Harold Brown Douglas J. Smith business leaders who provide support and Marcia and Frank C. Carlucci Jerry I. Speyer counsel and serve as models of leadership to Don R. Conlan Doachi Tong (alum) Peter H. Griffith David I. J. Wang our graduate students. Paul G. Haaga Jr. Jeffrey Wasserman (alum) Darcy Kopcho Roberta Weintraub Ann McLaughlin Korologos

19 Facult y and CURRICULUM effectively. policy institutionsandtheirabilitytooperate and technology hasondemocraticgovernment foresight methodstoexplore therole thatchanging Steven Popper (economics),thiscourseused analytics inthepolicyarena. implications (privacy, civilrights,etc.)ofpredictive ofdatamining,andpolicy building models,history as wellend-to-endbusinessprocesses for analytics models(oftenknownasdatamining), this classcovered majorfamiliesofpredictive Led byJohn Hollywood (operationsresearch), ( Surveillance, and Reconnaissance in Applications with Methods Quantitative Policy. for Public Predictive Analytics taught atPardee RANDbefore. 12 facultymembers,sevenofwhomhadnot number ofnewelectivecoursestaughtby During academicyear2013–2014,weoffered a bringing newteachingfacultyintoourclassrooms. continually addingnewelectivecoursesand the mostpressing publicpolicyneeds,weare the latestpolicyanalysistoolsandexposure to To ensure thatourstudentshaveaccessto New Courses Policy Understanding Macroeconomic Policy. Technology Foresight Public and new coursesgoingforward. Insteadofwaiting We havealsochangedour process forgenerating their viewofmacroeconomic policy. course designedtochallengestudentsrethink C. Richard Neu(economics)offered anelective continually changingnationalsecurityenvironment. of ISRsystemstomeetemergingdemandsa methods forassessingtherightmixandquantity (engineering), thiscoursetaughtquantitative I SR) P SR) Taught byRich Silberglitt (physics)and II olicy. . Buildingoff hiscore course, Taught byBrien Alkire I ntelli gence, gence,

Jeffrey Wasserman, andBillWelser. C. Richard Neu,JeanneRingel,AlanVick, Lisa Meredith, ShanthiNataraj,ChrisNelson, Krishna Kumar, EricLarson,SebastianLinnemayr, Rafiq Dossani,CharlesGoldman,EmmettKeeler, Louay Constant,NatalieCrawford, KatieDerose, Bennett,SandyBerry,Baiocchi, Bart ChloeBird, wereFaculty mentorsforthe2013cohort Dave offstart ontherightfoot. familiarize themwiththeprogram andhelpthem as thego-toresource forthenewfellowstohelp based oncommonresearch interests andserved incoming fellows.Theseprofessors were assigned faculty volunteered tobecomementors Again thisyear, anumberofmembersthe Mentors organizations around theworld. policy thatwillguidetheactions ofnationsand the capabilitytoevaluate,lead, anddetermine ortheprivatesector,government, andwhohave problemson important inacademia,thinktanks, Therefore, weseekindividualswhoaspire towork interdisciplinary perspective,andacreative flair. the world’s toughestproblems withrigor, abroad and future policyleaders who willtacklesomeof RAND istoeducatehigh-levelproblem solvers What are we lookingfor? ThemissionofPardee forthefollowingSeptember.incoming cohort admissions andwait-listdecisionsaboutthe and meetsasagrouptomakeall inFebruary reviews allcompletedapplicationsforadmissions deans anddirector ofadmissions,thecommittee about 12Pardee RANDfacultymembersplusthe decisionmaking bodyonadmissions.Agroup of The AdmissionsCommitteeisthekey Committee Admissions The new coursestobeoffered in2014–2015. after surveyingstudents,wehaveselectednine in SantaMonica,Washington, andPittsburghand, received more than20proposals from researchers from researchers across RAND.Lastspring,we are nowactivelysolicitingcourseproposals for facultytooffer toteachnewcourses,we The Faculty Committee on Curriculum and Appointments (FCCA) has responsibility for approving curriculum and teaching faculty. The FCCA consists of four faculty members (three elected and one appointed), one student, and the deans.

The committee looks for certain key traits, including year included Bart Bennett, Natalie Crawford, Rafiq strong academic ability, self-initiative, passion Dossani, Paul Dreyer, Susan Gates, Sarah Hunter, to “make a difference,” perseverance, and social David R. Johnson, Eric Larson, Sarah Meadows, and leadership skills. We also strive for diversity and Brian Stecher, joining our Pardee RAND staff in the broadest sense of the term. An important of Dean Susan Marquis, Associate Dean Rachel part of the graduate experience is the learning that Swanger, Assistant Dean Gery Ryan, and Director occurs among the students, bringing different life of Admissions Stefanie Howard. Mary Parker experiences, training, cultures, and mind-sets to tracked, distributed, and managed applicant files. the experience. Our best candidates will have the potential to provide leadership to the profession.

How do we evaluate applicants? It is not simple Faculty Awards and to measure intellectual ability, initiative, passion, Accomplishments leadership ability, and discipline among a variety of applicants. The committee carefully reviews each candidate’s application, essays, letters of recommendation, test scores, and transcripts. We then take into account diverse backgrounds, policy interests, work experiences, cultures, educational experiences, and other unique factors that might signal an applicant’s potential to become a policy leader.

How do we select Admissions Committee members? Because the decision to admit students to the graduate school is also a decision to hire Rafiq Dossani published Modes of Engagement: them as RAND research staff, we look for RAND Muslim Minorities in Asia (Stanford University). staff members who have an understanding of what Dmitry Khodyakov won the Lawrence W. Green it takes to succeed in the classroom and on project Paper of the Year Award in Health Education & work at RAND. The Admissions Committee this past Behavior.

Lou Mariano was recognized as Outstanding Reviewer for the Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics.

21 innovation means oftechnology: by facultyfrom multiplesites,leveragingvarious Courses coveringcriticalpolicyareas were taught Emerging PolicyResearch andMethodsinitiative. ofRANDandthe course contentwiththesupport implement excitingnewwaysofdelivering In thepastacademicyear, wewere ableto I • • • nnovation in

infrastructure. upgrading computing in its resources invested also significant RAND possible, processing. To help make course the parallel or solutions involving out-of-memory computing using and information of terabytes analyze data that require often manipulating challengethe of how to collect, manage, and (public policy), this new addressed course Davis (engineering) and Zev Winkelman opposing targets. opposing their implications for achieving damage to ofmeans delivery for nuclear weapons and assessed. It also examined different the of nuclear weapons and how they be can looked course at effects the this one-week Ta Forces. Nuclear Strategic Understanding Big Applications. Data snowstorm!) Detroit. Washington, Boston, and even (due to a office, but also from Monica from Santa the online.or Instructors presented only not participating people more than 50 in person researchers, including sessions with some impressivean of students, faculty, and ever offered at It attracted Pardee RAND. geographicallyand most diverse course levels. largest the quickly course became The implemented at national, the state, and local care as Affordable the Care Act was being health), examined course the issues in health (public health), Chandra (public Anita and Chapin White (health policy), Laurie Martin (economics), Friedberg Mark (medicine), Eibner (economics), Peter Hussey Ta Care and CareHealth Reform. Health ught and Jim Quinlivan, by Bennett Bruce ught by Ridgely Susan (law), Christine O ur Cu ur Ta ught by John rriculum

Progress Progress Hitting Your GoalsbyKnowingWhatMatters. to ManageWhatWe Don’t KnowandRelevance: including twobooks:RiskIntelligence:Learning Africa, andistheauthorofnumerous publications, Asia, China,India,theMiddleEast,andNorth experiencethroughoutinternational Southeast Council onForeign Relations,Davidhasextensive Investment Corporation.Alongtimememberofthe senior program officer attheInter-American manager ofasmall-businessfundforHaitias ApgariscurrentlyAccelerate Learning.” the “Planning toEvolve:HowImpactScorecards Methods initiative.Hepresented atalkentitled oftheEmergingPolicyResearchSeries, part and May 2tospeakintheRANDInnovationSpeaker ’80) returnedon Alum DavidApgar(cohort Spe RAND was activeinanumberofareas. In 2013–2014,theGlobalHumanProgress Initiative collaboration, andimplementation. areas where whatisneededexperimentation, conditions ontheground. We aimto work in groups workingtousethatevidenceimprove available andwhere there are motivatedandactive our goalistofocusontopicswhere evidenceis the answerliesinmore basicresearch. Instead, faced by thedeveloping world. We don’t think offers anew approach to thechronic problems The Pardee Initiative for GlobalHumanProgress Global aker Series I H nnovation nnovation uma I nit iative n n

We launched the Pardee Initiative Blog Posts on Policy Innovation in Africa and Asia. Four student bloggers defined their own beats, giving them each an opportunity to examine a policy issue in some depth and to develop links to policy researchers and practitioners on the ground in Asia and Africa: Image via Fotolia • Adeyemi Okunogbe (cohort ’13) wrote about bold and innovative approaches being We Developed a Food Energy developed in Africa to reduce maternal Water Index mortality. In his inaugural blog, he described the Abiye Safe Motherhood program in Ondo According to former UK Foreign Secretary William State, Nigeria. Hague, food, energy, and water (FEW) are “pillars on which global security, prosperity, and equity • Julia Pollak (cohort ’12) wrote on housing stand.” Numerous studies and commentaries have policies in South Africa, arguing that the identified important links among these resources, government’s plan to replace cardboard shacks but the vast majority of studies in this area focus with cement houses may not be the only route on linkages between two of the three dimensions— to easing South Africa’s housing woes. i.e., water and energy, water and food, or food and • Mahlet Atakilt Woldetsadik (cohort ’13) wrote energy. Only limited attention has been devoted on issues related to women’s health, especially thus far to developing an integrated approach to those facing women in vulnerable situations like all three domains. Given the interdependencies refugee camps and war zones, tackling issues associated with FEW resources, governments, such as menstrual hygiene and justice for rape foundations, and nongovernmental organizations victims. working on improving human development need • Oluwatobi A. Oluwatola (cohort ’12) wrote an integrated measure of FEW security. Moreover, on innovation and environmental policy, they also need a way to project how development suggesting in one post that Malawi—with efforts or future trends will affect each of these the highest per-capita maize consumption resources. in Africa—may need to consider introducing Pardee RAND faculty members Henry Willis, alternatives given changing weather, climate, Jeanne Ringel, and Dave Groves, working with and water needs. students Zhimin Mao and Shira Efron, developed a web-based tool that will enable users to explore We Partnered with the World country measures of FEW security. Once up Bank in The Global Coalition for and running, the tool will enable users to view Youth Employment the spatial patterns of FEW data and indices Pardee RAND faculty members Peter Glick and across the globe; drill down to country-level Krishna Kumar, together with students Nelly Mejia data underlying FEW index values; and explore (cohort ’11) and Crystal Huang (cohort ’13), joined what-if experiments on future changes to key with alum David Robalino, director of the Labor drivers of FEW security. The online tool will consist Markets and Youth team of the World Bank, to of interactive visualizations that will include collaborate on issues of youth unemployment in static descriptions of the goals of the project, developing nations. In the first phase of the initiative, sources of data, and methods used to aggregate RAND took the lead role in designing approaches to and synthesize the data. This transparent develop the knowledge base, creating the “blueprint” and standardized index will characterize the for transferable and scalable interventions, interconnection between food, energy, and water developing strategies for dissemination and policy in a simple manner that can easily be used by impact, and setting out the evaluation criteria for policymakers, the development community, funding interventions. scientists, and the public.

23 Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Fellowship, The National Academics Youngbok Ryu (student)

Edwin E. and Mary T. Huddleson Outstanding Teacher Award Roland Sturm (faculty) Air Force Commander Public Service Award Natalie Crawford (faculty) Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award

Outstanding Reviewer, Journal of Educational Cameron Wright and Behavioral Statistics (student)

awards Lou Mariano (faculty)

Lawrence W. Green Paper of the Year Award, Health Education & Behavior Team Science Award, Association for Clinical and Translational Science Dmitry Khodyakov (faculty)

Spotlight awards

Spotlight Awards reward RAND staff promptly in recognition of special, one-time contributions in support of RAND projects and operations. The following staff and students were recognized in 2014:

Olena Bogdan (student), for sharing Mollie Rudnick (student), Melissa Felician her experiences and perspective (student), and Julia Pollak (student), for their regarding the situation in Ukraine outstanding work as members of the Career with students, RAND staff, and the Services Advisory Council for the 2013–2014 Pardee RAND Board of Governors. Academic Year.

Carlos Gutierrez (student), for voluntarily Jonathan Wong (student), for organizing and presenting a Prospective Student voluntarily serving as an escort Information Session for Pardee RAND in Colombia. and liaison for former RAND president Henry Rowen during Beth Katz (student), for her work on a RAND commencement weekend. National Defense Research Institute project on cost and quality of K–12 schools. Jessica Yeats (student), for her thought leadership on a project to assess Department of Defense Ujwal Kharel (student), for his work on the Britain’s efforts to inform, influence, and persuade. Healthiest Company project. Mikhail Zaydman (student), for his outstanding Mustafa Oguz (student), for his work on the work supporting RAND’s Law Enforcement Individual Disability Evaluation System study. Futuring Workshop. Jennifer Prim (staff), for her important contributions to RAND and Pardee RAND operations. medal awards

Medal Awards highlight important institutional priorities; motivate, recognize, and reward significant contributors; and convey illustrative examples of outstanding contributions.

President’s Choice Win Boerckel (faculty), for his leadership, creativity, and determination in connecting RAND insights and expertise to the policy challenges being addressed by Congress.

Gold Bronze Cheryl Damberg (faculty), for working closely Endy Daehner (faculty) with RAND researcher with Congress in its effort to begin transforming John Matsumura, for their analysis of the Army’s Medicare from a pure fee-for-service system to Ground Combat Vehicle (GCV) program that one that better promotes quality and value. highlighted serious operational and logistics challenges, which helped inform the Department of Mark Friedberg (faculty), for his research Defense in its decision to cancel the program. establishing RAND as a leading source of expertise on primary health care transformation. Trey Miller (faculty), for initiating a partnership with the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board James Hosek (faculty) with RAND researchers (THECB) that has elevated RAND Education’s Beth Asch and Michael Mattock, for their profile in the state. innovative analysis of the effects of changes in military retirement compensation that informed Steven Popper (faculty) and Jessica Saunders Department of Defense recommendations to (faculty), for developing a road map for police Congress. modernization in Israel and helping to diversify RAND’s international portfolio.

Glenn Wagner (faculty), for diversifying RAND’s Silver international portfolio by leading HIV prevention and treatment research in Africa, Latin America, Katherine Carman (faculty), for her foresight and and the Middle East with a focus on sustainable, initiative in developing the RAND Health Reform country-level impact. Opinion Study. Henry Willis (faculty), for his tireless efforts to John Gordon (faculty), for his transformative develop a sustainable base of business with the recommendations to improve the capabilities of U.S. Department of Homeland Security. airborne forces and for devising innovative ways that such forces could begin experimenting with new capabilities, thus facilitating their adoption.

Chaitra Hardison (faculty) with RAND researcher Carl Rhodes, for their rapid-response analysis of behavioral problems within the Air Force’s nuclear workforce, thus helping the Air Force proactively address these problems.

25 2013–2014 Pardee RAND Dissertation Awards

Through the generosity of board members and additional friends, the Pardee RAND Graduate School was able to confer 23 dissertation awards totaling $365,150. ds

John M. Cazier Award in Sustainability The Dana G. Mead Dissertation Awards ($63,750) ($23,750) $21,250 to Steven Isley for his work on $18,750 to Shmuel Abramzon for Evaluating the Political Sustainability his work on Strategies for Managing of Emission Control Policies in an Sovereign Debt: A Robust Decision Evolutionary Economics Setting Making Approach (Committee: Steven (Committee: Rob Lempert, Chair; Popper, Chair; Robert Lempert, Zvi

awar Steven Popper, Edward Parsons) Wiener)

$21,250 to Min Mao for her work on $5,000 to Adam Singer for his Developing a Support System for work on Designing, Implementing, Sustainable Energy Development in and Evaluating a Mobile Software India and China (Committee: Debra Application to Facilitate Hospice

ION Knopman, Chair; Nicholas Burger, Education and Choice (Committee: Keith W. Crane) Karl Lorenz, Chair; Joan Teno, Daniella T Meeker) $21,250 to Edmundo Molina Perez

A for his work on The International The Pardee Dissertation Awards for Diffusion of Sustainable Energy T Global Human Progress ($30,000) Technologies: Policy Challenges for International Cooperation Under Social $20,000 to Kun Gu for her work on and Technological Deep Uncertainty Social Network and the Adoption of (Committee: Steven Popper, Chair; Environmentally Sound Practice in David Groves, Constantine Samaras) China (Committee: Krishna Kumar, Chair)

The Doris Dong Award ($6,365) $10,000 to Shira Efron for her work $6,365 to Mollie Rudnick for her work on Improved Food Security for Arid

ISSER on Identifying and Hiring Effective Developing Countries (Committee: Teachers (Committee: Matt Lewis, Jeanne Ringel, Chair; Brien Alkire)

D Chair; Jennifer Steele) The Eugene and Maxine Rosenfeld The JL Foundation Awards Dissertation Awards ($20,000) (via Jim Lovelace) ($71,250) $10,000 to Idrees Rahmani for his $42,000 to Katie Wilson for her work work on Cultural Consensus over on The Impact of Preprimary Center Characteristics of Good Political Enrollment on Child Development Leadership Among Different Segments in Bangladesh (Committee: Shanthi of Afghan Population (Committee: Nataraj, Chair; Krishna Kumar, Jill Terry Kelly, Chair; Tom Szayna, Gery Luoto) Ryan)

$29,250 to Sinduja Srinivasan for $10,000 to Henu Zhao for her work on her work on Economic Development China’s Health Insurance Reform and and Poverty Elimination in India Disparities in Health Care Utilization (Committee: Krishna Kumar, Chair; and Costs: A Longitudinal Analysis Peter Glick, Shanthi Nataraj) (Committee: Hao Yu, Chair; Gema Zamarro, Emmett Keeler) The Anne and James Rothenberg The Arthur S. Wasserman Prize for Reducing Social Dissertation Awards ($71,500) and Economic Disparities ($5,000) $11,500 to Jessica Yeats for her work $5,000 to Nelly Mejia for her work on on Homeless Families in Los Angeles: Determinants of the Demand of Health Identifying Cost-Effective, Evidence-Based Care Services of Insured People: Interventions (Committee: Shanthi Nataraj) Traditional and Non-Traditional Providers (Committee: Emma Aguila, Chair; Krishna $15,000 to Caroline Tassot for her work on Kumar, Roland Sturm) Income Inequality and Subjective Well- Being: Evidence from the United States The David I. J. Wang Dissertation Award ($30,000) During the Great Recession (Committee: Arie Kapteyn, Chair; Susann Rohwedder, $30,000 to Ujwal Kharel for his work Richard Easterlin) on Workers’ Compensation for Low- Skilled Migrant Workers in the GCC $13,500 to Lopamudra Das for her work on (Gulf Cooperation Council) Countries The Role of Data in Improving Care Within (Committee: Louay Constant, Chair; Health Systems (Committee: Gery Ryan, Shanthi Nataraj, Seth Seabury) Chair; Karl Lorenz, Brian Mittman)

$15,000 to Yashodhara Rana for her The Susan Way-Smith Memorial Dissertation work on The Role of Social Relationships Grant in Education ($9,785) in the Transmission and Prevention of $9,785 to Beth Katz for her work on HIV Among Marginalized Populations District-Union Collaboration in Local (Committee: Glenn Wagner, Chair; Teacher Evaluation Reform Efforts: Case Ryan Brown, David Kennedy) Studies of Three School Districts in California (Committee: Jennifer McCombs, $10,000 to Saw Htay Wah for his work on Chair; Rita Karam, Julia Koppich) Panel Dynamics of Private Enterprises in Myanmar (Committee: Arie Kapteyn, Chair; The James Q. Wilson Dissertation Fellowship Joanne Yoong, David Powell) ($33,750) $6,500 to Sarah Kups for her work on $23,750 to Jesse Sussell for his work Topics in Migration Research (Committee: on Changing Constituencies and Rising Silvia Barcellos, Chair; Michael Rendall, Polarization in the Congress: Three Essays Emma Aguila) (Committee: Jim Thomson, Chair; Winfield Boerckel, Jeff Stonecash)

$10,000 to Clinton Saloga for his work on Medication or Recreation: What Factors Affect the Decisions of Marijuana Cultivation Businesses in Colorado? (Committee: Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, Chair; Priscilla Hunt)

Scholarships are an essential part of the support we offer our students, and board members are primary providers of such assistance. Thanks to ongoing support from past and present members of the Board of Governors, and gifts from additional donors and stakeholders, for the second consecutive year, we were able to offer full scholarships to all eligible students in the entering cohort of 2014.

The Azrael Family Darcy and Richard Kopcho Lynda and Stewart Resnick Ambassador Frank and Kathy Baxter Jim Lovelace Donald B. and Susan F. Rice Marcia and Frank C. Carlucci Michael M. Lynton Anne and James Rothenberg Robert A. Eckert William E. Mayer Joyce and Donald Rumsfeld Thomas Epley and Linnae Anderson Nancy and Dana G. Mead The SahanDaywi Foundation Heather and Paul G. Haaga, Jr. Eloisa and Santiago Morales David I. J. Wang Ambassador Thomas Korologos and Frederick S. Pardee The Honorable Ann M. Korologos SCHOLARSHIPS 27 The Legacy of John M. Cazier $5 Million Cazier Gift to Pardee RAND Graduate School Launches Environmental and Energy Sustainability Initiative John M. Cazier, engineer and philanthropist, friend and valued stakeholder of Pardee RAND, died on August 24 after a brief illness. He was 89, and There will be support to allow faculty, with student leaves a legacy at the School for initiatives and assistance, to pursue new work and extend research in environmental and energy sustainability. RAND and graduate school research, with a particular emphasis on disseminating this work He established the John and Carol Cazier and getting it into the hands of decisionmakers Environmental and Energy Sustainability Initiative at and practitioners. To achieve the most impact Pardee RAND with a gift of $5 million. The initiative with the widest possible audiences, Cazier’s is designed to help generate new concepts, tools, gift will underwrite materials that communicate and methods to share findings, ideas, and insights in nontechnical, direct, visual, and simple clearly and broadly. The aim is to improve public ways about advances or key policies on the policy, foster better practices in the field, and apply fundraising environment, sustainability, engineering, and these to the commercial sector to benefit people technology transfer. Further, the John M. Cazier throughout the world. A key focus will be in the areas Endowed Dissertation for Sustainability award will of quantitative policy analysis and robust planning support Ph.D. candidates pursuing dissertations under conditions of deep uncertainty concerning the on topics that have potential policy impact in future of energy and the environment. energy and environmental sustainability. Under the initiative—which also honors his wife, Carol Cazier, who predeceased her husband— the graduate school will bring important visiting Dean’s Dinners fellows to campus and provide valuable research Dean’s Dinners continue to be an effective vehicle and dissemination tools to students and faculty for bringing new donors, supporters, and board members. The visiting fellows will challenge, inspire, members into the Pardee RAND community. These inform, and educate Ph.D. candidates, faculty, dinners are hosted for small groups by members RAND researchers, and the RAND community—and of our Board of Governors. Each dinner is oriented it is hoped that being part of the RAND community around a critical policy topic that showcases the will broaden the visitors’ horizons, too. expertise of our faculty and students.

On July 26, Bill Mayer hosted guests who participated in a discussion on “Iran and Future American Strategic Interests in the Middle East I’m truly impressed with the and the World.” Presenters included Alireza “intellectual capacities of Pardee Nader, a senior international policy analyst at RAND and RAND. After having success RAND, and Shira Efron. in the engineering and automotive industry, I want to ensure that the right bridges get built between the research powerhouses of RAND and Pardee RAND, the commercial world, and the best practitioners in the field.” John M. Cazier Be the Answer Campaign TOTAL: $19,911,491 Endowment: $11,843,189 Current Use: $8,068,301

Lynda and Stewart Resnick Endowed Scholarship

Established Current Use $8,068,301 A $1 million gift from philanthropists Lynda and date 46% Endowment Stewart Resnick will help policy leaders of tomorrow $11,843,189 receive exceptional training today to embark on 54% careers in public service. up

“The new Lynda and Stewart Resnick Endowed Scholarship, representative of their considerable business acumen and commitment to the greater aign good, will benefit us all by supporting our deeply p committed Ph.D. candidates as they master and then apply the rigorous research and analytic Pardee RAND Current Use skills that are proven to advance public policy am Total: $8,068,301

Career & Student Services and decisionmaking,” said Dean Susan Marquis. C $117,100 “We’re grateful for this generous gift.” 1%

The Resnicks, in entrepreneurial careers spanning Scholarship Dissertation Support Support more than 50 years in many varied industries and $1,307,449 $1,135,100 14% 12% enterprises, have sought to balance achievement in business with a dedication to giving back. Their generosity has supported advancements in the Initiatives & arts, education, science, medicine, health, and Special Projects $2,541,855 health care at notable institutions across Central 28% Core Student Support and Southern California. $2,966,796 45% “With the many challenges we face in the world today, we believe in the wisdom and importance of investing in intellectual capacity, especially as it flourishes in places like RAND, to find real-world solutions to real-world problems,” the Resnicks said. Endowment Total: $11,843,189

Dong Dissertation $250,000 2%

Tribute Endowments $1,1015210 10% Cazier Dissertation $1,000,000 General 9% Pardee RAND Endowment Cazier $4,408,326 Sustainability 41% Impact Fund $1,550,000 14%

Named Scholarship Endowments $3,309,603 23% Faculty Endowments $310,000 3%

29 financials School’s expenditures. conference travel,mentoringandcareer services) continued toaccountformore than50percent ofthe (includinghealthcare,The academicprogram, andstudent support scholarshipsanddissertations, FY14 Funds: Uses philanthropic giving,withunrestricted 14percent giftsalonesupporting oftheSchool’s activities. RAND GraduateSchool,covering55percent oftheSchool’s operations.Itwasabanneryearfor In fiscalyear2014,tuitioncontinuedtobethesinglelargestsource offundingforthePardee FY14 Funds: Sources Unrestricted Gifts Unrestricted Institutional Support Administration $0.52M Endowment $1.40M $0.43M $0.73M Restricted Gifts $0.35M & Awards & Initiatives Contracts Contracts & Grants $0.28M $0.01M Investment Executive Programs $0.08M $0.11M RAND RAND Scholarships & Dissertations Student Support $0.80M $0.78M Academic Programs Academic $2.09M Tuition $0.67M Executive Programs & AwardsInitiatives Institutional Support Administration Scholarships &Dissertations Academic Programs Student Support RAND Investment Contracts &Grants Restricted Gifts Unrestricted Gifts Endowment Tuition FY14 Student Work on RAND Projects

In FY14, RAND Health continued to provide the single largest source of funding for student project work, with the National Security Research Division a close second. New initiatives combined with dissertation support made Pardee RAND a sizable player as well.

Pardee RAND RAND Frederick S. Pardee Center for Graduate Longer Range Global Policy and the School RAND Future Human Condition 9% 1% Arroyo Center (Army) 7% RAND International Programs 2% Arroyo JIE RAND Labor and Population 8% RAND NationalNSRD Security Research DivisionL&P 22%

PAF Global RAND Justice, Infrastructure, and Environment 12% Education PRDC

RAND Project AIR FORCE 10% Health Pardee RAND Graduate School

RAND Health RAND Education 24% 5%

FY14 Endowment

Growth in the endowment continued to be strong in all areas of focus—surpassing $30 million. The Cazier Initiative and two new endowed scholarships were the major factors in this growth.

$35,000,000

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