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Campus Highlights

Students at last week's celebration of scholarship support

Students at last week's celebration of scholarship support. Photo by Diane Baldwin/RAND Corporation

“This was the education I was looking for”

At an event honoring the school’s supporters and scholars, Khrystyna Holynska (cohort '20) described learning about Pardee RAND as “love at first sight.” Receiving the Azrael Scholarship made her dreams possible, she told the 100 dinner attendees. More »

How to Make Policing More Equitable

Our second annual policy hackathon brought together HBCU and Pardee RAND students. More »

POV: Scoping My Dissertation

Eddie López (cohort '20) shares his process on the Tech+Narrative Lab Blog. More »

Faculty Focus

Illustration of the racial wealth gap by Kekeli Sumah/RAND Corporation, from Andre Hunter/Unsplash and Pete Soriano/RAND Corporation, from Atlas Illustrations/Adobe Stock and dar/Adobe Stock

Illustration by Kekeli Sumah/RAND Corporation, from Andre Hunter/Unsplash and Pete Soriano/RAND Corporation, from Atlas Illustrations/Adobe Stock and dar/Adobe Stock

Investigating the U.S. Racial Wealth Gap

Policy interventions to address current wealth disparities must understand the long-standing inequities that contributed to them. A series of discussion papers by Jonathan Welburn, Kathryn Edwards, and a team of faculty and students investigated how wealth is accumulated, the potential effects of particular policy responses, and the social mobility prospects of African Americans. More »

A Productive Use of AI in the Classroom?

Bill Marcellino encourages his students to use resources like ChatGPT to improve their learning. More »

Insights on the Earthquake in Turkey and Syria

Professors (and a student), share their expertise on disaster response and rebuilding. More »

Alumni Impact

Edmundo Molina-Perez, image styling by Haley Okuley/RAND

Styling by Haley Okuley/RAND

From Civil Engineer to Decision Sciences Professor: Alumni Q&A

Edmundo Molina-Pérez (cohort '11) once considered becoming an architect or a writer, but his deep interests in math and programming led him to a completely different path. He is now a research associate professor at Mexico’s Tecnológico de Monterrey, where he focuses on developing new computational and experimental methods for studying decision making under deep uncertainty. More »

How Do U.S. Public Schools Approach Discipline?

Rachel Perera (cohort '16) and Melissa Diliberti ('19) analyze feedback from school principals. More »

Washington State Latinos Seek Less Treatment for Long COVID

Leo Morales (cohort '95) is leading a study to understand why and address disparities. More »

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