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Message from the Dean
As we move into the holidays, I think we all agree it is not quite the season we might have imagined or wished for. We’ve all been asked to forgo out-of-state travel and celebrate within our own households. None of us want to put vulnerable family and friends at risk when even the smallest of get-togethers may pose unwanted risks. It is easy for us to feel disappointment and not hard to feel the loneliness of isolation.
But keeping safe this year makes it ever more likely that we can celebrate together next year. Limiting our in-person social contacts this winter will decrease COVID-19’s spread and give the time needed to fully develop and then distribute promising vaccines. And at Pardee RAND we are truly fortunate to have the option of staying safe, protecting others and ourselves.
We are also thankful for our amazing new cohort, the many exciting activities organized by our new streams, and the terrific efforts of our faculty, staff, and students in the area of equity and justice. You can read about all of this, and so many alumni accomplishments, in this issue of Findings.
I’m looking forward to spending time with you in person once again. Until then, stay safe and stay in touch — with us and with each other.
Susan
Susan Marquis
Frank and Marcia Carlucci Dean
Pardee RAND Graduate School
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Students take a course in the Courtyard, photo by Diane Baldwin/RAND Corporation
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With 33 members, Cohort '20 is the largest class of new students in the school’s history, the first to be admitted to the school’s three new academic streams and enter the fully-redesigned program.
Thanks to a wide array of online activities, they also met — virtually — months before they arrived, and they are now immersed in a hybrid program with courses offered both online and outdoors. More »
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This August, Pardee RAND launched the first pilots of our community-partnered externships — virtually in Los Angeles and in-person in Sitka, Alaska. Six students — three for each location — participated in the two partnerships. More »
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Pardee RAND faculty, staff, and students organized numerous programs and workshops this summer and fall to raise awareness of inequity and explore policy solutions. More »
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The school hired Cynthia Gonzalez as the new director of our Community-Partnered Policy and Action academic stream and the Community Partner program; named Phil Armour director of the Research, Analysis, and Design stream; and hired staff for the Tech + Narrative Lab. More »
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This summer, working with the COVID Alliance, Pardee RAND's Tech + Narrative Lab (TNL) built on its previous policy hackathon experience and explored the ethics of data dashboards. More »
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David Wang, a former member of the Board of Governors whose support helped to launch the Faculty Leaders Program, was driven by a commitment to give underrepresented groups a foothold on opportunity. His estate included a $1 million gift to Pardee RAND. More »
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Student Research & Commentary
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Numerous students and alumni worked with RAND colleagues on five reports supporting Puerto Rico's disaster recovery planning. Kudos to them all!
David Catt Cohort '16 |
Jordan Fischbach '04 |
Alexandra Huttinger '17 |
Lauren Kendrick '12 |
Karishma Patel '17 |
Etienne Rosas '14 |
Jamie Ryan '17
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David Catt Cohort '16 with alum Jordan Fischbach '04: Managing Heavy Rainfall with Green Infrastructure, a RAND research report
Hardika Dayalani Cohort '18 and Katie Feistel '19:
Data Privacy During Pandemics: A Scorecard Approach for Evaluating the Privacy Implications of COVID-19 Mobile Phone Surveillance Programs, a RAND research report
Melissa Diliberti Cohort '19 and Ashley Woo '18:
The Digital Divide and COVID-19: Teachers' Perceptions of Inequities in Students' Internet Access and Participation in Remote Learning, a RAND research report
Moon Kim Cohort '18: Evaluating Alternative Maintenance Manpower Force Structure Concepts for the F-35A, a RAND research report
Tim McDonald Cohort '16 and Professor Rob Lempert: "Planning as Freedom," a commentary in the RAND Blog
Tal Wolfson Cohort '17 and alum Shira Efron '11: Local Government Reform and the Socioeconomic Gap in Israel, a RAND research report
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Games are more than just theoretical to alumnae Ellie Bartels Cohort '15, Claire O'Hanlon Cohort '13, and Yuna Wong Cohort '00. Bartels is the new director of the RAND Center for Gaming, O'Hanlon recently launched an online version of her card game ControVersus, and Wong helped create RAND's first publicly available board game, Hedgemony. More »
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Bruce Bennett Cohort '75, a RAND senior international and defense researcher, and Yong-Sup Han Cohort '88, former vice president and director of the Korean National Defense University, both (officially) retired this summer. Their careers were both remarkable. More »
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Greg Rest at his wedding in 1999
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Greg Rest Cohort '80 passed away on May 23. At RAND he worked on studies that evaluated the effects of changes to legal procedures. He retired in 2015 as chief methodologist of Virginia's Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission. More »
Brent Boultinghouse Cohort '91 passed away on November 20. He worked and studied at RAND through 1997 and later went on to teach high school culinary science.
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Congratulations
on your new job or career milestone
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James Burgdorf
Cohort '06
Jim is now a medical economics consultant with Highmark Health.
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Christopher Carson
Cohort '14
Chris is now the science & technology attaché, Air Force Southern Office of Aerospace Research & Development (SOARD), U.S. Department of State, based in Santiago, Chile.
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Diana Gehlhaus
Cohort '15
Diana is now a research fellow at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology at Georgetown University.
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Kun Gu
Cohort '11
Kun is now people analytics tech lead manager at Facebook.
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Dan Han
Cohort '13
Dan is now an assistant professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore.
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Angela Hawken
Cohort '98
Angela is now director of the NYU Marron Institute of Urban Management, as well as a professor of public policy and program director of Litmus at the Marron Institute.
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Jakub Hlavka
Cohort '14
Jakub is now a research fellow at the USC Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events.
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Matthew Hoover
Cohort '09
Matt is now a customer facing data scientist at DataRobot.
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Sung-Bou Kim
Cohort '09
Sung-Bou is now an associate research fellow at the Korea Institute of Public Administration.
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Christopher Lau
Cohort '10
Chris is now vice president of health economics at Cricket Health.
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Maren Leed
Cohort '95
Maren is now an adjunct professor at the U.S. Naval Academy and a project manager in the Navy Digital Warfare Office of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
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Ying Liu
Cohort '04
Ying is now a senior director and franchise lead for U.S. Value and Access, Dermatology and Respiratory, at Sanofi Genzyme.
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Russell Lundberg
Cohort '07
Russell is now an associate professor at Sam Houston State University.
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Sai Ma
Cohort '02
Sai is now managing director and senior technical advisor for quality measurement at the National Quality Forum.
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David Manheim
Cohort '12
David is now a lead researcher at 1Day Sooner Inc.
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Zhimin Mao
Cohort '11
Min is now a water resources management specialist at the World Bank.
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Robert Nordyke
Cohort '92
Bob is now vice president of health economics and outcomes research at Angion.
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Jennifer Novak-Leonard
Cohort '04
Jennifer is now a research associate professor with the College of Fine & Applied Arts at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Youngbok Ryu
Cohort '11
Youngbok is now an assistant teaching professor at Northeastern University.
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Sinduja Srinivasan
Cohort '09
Sinduja is now producer of PODCAST-19 at FiveThirtyEight.
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Yuna Wong
Cohort '00
Yuna is now a defense analyst at the Institute for Defense Analyses.
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Cameron Wright
Cohort '12
Cameron is now a staff systems engineer at Northrop Grumman Corporation.
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Alumni Research & Commentary
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Ze Cong Cohort '03 coauthored "The Economic Burden of End-Organ Damage Among Medicaid Patients with Sickle Cell Disease in the United States: A Population-Based Longitudinal Claims Study" in the Journal of Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy.
Lindsay Daugherty Cohort '05 coauthored "Emergency COVID-19 Aid Helps College Students with Food and Housing: Four Ways Colleges Can Maintain That Support," a commentary in The RAND Blog.
Steve Davenport Cohort '15 was interviewed on "How the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally may have contributed to COVID spikes in the Midwest," for the NPR podcast Press Play with Madeleine Brand. Davenport is co-executive director of the COVID Alliance, a program of The Center for New Data.
Brent Fulton Cohort '01 was the lead author of "Exploratory analysis of the potential for advanced diagnostic testing to reduce healthcare expenditures of patients hospitalized with meningitis or encephalitis," in the journal PLOS One.
Myong-Hyu Go Cohort '04 was interviewed for "North Korean Leader Issues Rare Apology to South Korea Over Shooting Death of South Korean" on Arirang News Center.
Kenneth Grosselin Cohort '08 was runner-up in the 2019 Gen Bernard A. Schriever Memorial Essay Contest for his essay "A Culture of Military Spacepower," which has subsequently been published in the Spring 2020 issue of the Air & Space Power Journal.
Allen Lee Cohort '72 presented a webinar "Evaluation and Codes and Standards Programs" as part of the Roadmap to a Minnesota Codes & Standards Program series. Allen is an executive director of Cadmus and a nationally recognized expert on building energy-efficiency codes and appliance efficiency standards.
Tewodaj (Todi) Mengistu Cohort '07 coauthored "Routine childhood immunisation during the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa: a benefit–risk analysis of health benefits versus excess risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection," in The Lancet. Mengistu is a senior program officer for Corporate Performance Monitoring and Measurement at Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in Geneva, Switzerland.
Jonathan Schachter Cohort '98 coauthored "What we know about Iran five years after Netanyahu’s speech to Congress," a commentary in the Jerusalem Post. Schachter was the foreign policy adviser to Israel's prime minister from 2015 to 2018.
Baoping Shang Cohort '00 coauthored "From Lockdown to Recovery: The Design of Spending Measures to Support Firms and Households During COVID-19," a commentary in the IMF's Public Financial Management blog.
Ann Stone Cohort '94 participated in the webinar "Early Findings and Lessons from the Partnerships for Social and Emotional Learning," hosted by the Wallace Foundation. The event explored a report coauthored by professors Celia Gomez and Stephani Wrabel and several RAND colleagues.
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Nicholas Broten
Cohort '15
Dissertation: Exploring the Influences of External Factors on the Veteran Disability Compensation Program.
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Meg Chamberlin
Cohort '14
Dissertation: Improving Chronic Care: Perspectives on Navigating Management of Two Case Conditions Across a Fragmented Care Landscape.
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Ifeanyi Edochie
Cohort '15
Dissertation: A Lot on their Shoulders: Predictive Modelling Approaches for Addressing Shrinking Working Populations in Select Countries. Ify is now a data scientist with the World Bank's Division of Poverty & Equity Global Practice in Washington, DC.
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Pavan Katkar
Cohort '14
Dissertation: Policy Implications of the Blockchain Technology.
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Nicholas Martin
Cohort '15
Dissertation: Protection Strategies for National Security Space Systems. Nick is now a space analyst at Aerospace Corporation's Space Security & Defense Program in Colorado Springs, Colo.
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William Hank Waggy
Cohort '17
Dissertation: Three Essays on Accommodating Officer Preferences in a Military Career.
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Russell Williams
Cohort '17
Dissertation: Location, Location, Location: Can the USAF leverage its basing posture to increase pilot retention?
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The 42nd annual fall APPAM Research Conference may have been virtual, but that didn't stop Pardee RAND students, alumni, and faculty (and RAND researchers) from having a real presence. More »
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Dean Susan Marquis, journalist Soledad O’Brien, and professors Debra Knopman and Howard Shatz will discuss the changes we can expect from the incoming U.S. administration on issues from energy and climate change to economic policy and COVID-19 response and recovery efforts. More »
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