Summer Savior: Students Flocking to Weldon Cooper Center's Clean Energy Initiative

Jun 29, 2020

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Summer Savior: Students Flocking to Weldon Cooper Center's Clean Energy Initiative

header_WCC — The Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service’s Bill Shobe, left, and Arthur Small have created a lifeline for more than two dozen UVA students who lost summer internships and jobs due to the pandemic. (Contributed photos)

Neha Awasthi thought she was all set for the summer.

The rising third-year civil and environmental engineering student from Aldie was looking forward to a summer internship at a transportation planning and engineering firm. The 10-week program was set to begin in late May and run through early August.

But when COVID-19 hit, Awasthi’s plans – like those of many students at the University of Virginia and around the world – were dashed.

Enter UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.

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William Shobe

William Shobe is research professor of public policy at the Batten School and the Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Studies at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. Shobe's current research includes emission market and auction design, environmental federalism, improved economic modeling of Virginia’s economy, state economic development incentives and state economic forecasting.

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