About News News Subscribe Democracy Political Science Education Social Psychology (-) Leadership Facet Area of Focus - News Benjamin Converse Gabrielle Adams Facet People - News Center for Effective Lawmaking Darden School of Business School of Education and Human Development School of Medicine UVA Humanitarian Collaborative (-) UVA Center for Politics (-) School Engineering Facet UVA Partner - News Student Stories Research and Commentary Facet News Type - News Apr 07, 2021 Why Our Brains Miss Opportunities to Improve through Subtraction Social Psychology Leadership In a new paper featured on the cover of Nature, Batten’s Gabrielle Adams, Benjamin Converse and co-authors explain why people systematically overlook subtractive improvements. Learn more Oct 12, 2020 Batten Student Leads Efforts to Register Voters, Recruit Poll Workers as Deadline Looms Leadership Ahead of Virginia’s voter registration deadline Tuesday, Batten student Hannah Koizumi (BA '21) is helping her peers register to vote, volunteer as poll workers and make a plan to get to the polls. READ IN UVA TODAY May 04, 2020 Batten Teams Up With Center for Politics to Launch Virtual Internship for Students Who Lost Summer Jobs Leadership Batten teams up with the Center for Politics and several public service-focused departments at UVA – including the Miller Center for Public Affairs, the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership, and the UVA Career Center – to quickly design and launch a five-week virtual summer internship program. READ IN UVA TODAY Feb 24, 2020 Paul Ryan Recounts His Days on Capitol Hill, Talks Current Events in Dome Room Political Science Leadership The former Speaker of the House joined the Batten School and Center for Politics to discuss the 2020 election, impeachment, Congress and more. READ IN UVA TODAY Stay Up To Date with the Latest Batten News and Events Subscribe
Apr 07, 2021 Why Our Brains Miss Opportunities to Improve through Subtraction Social Psychology Leadership In a new paper featured on the cover of Nature, Batten’s Gabrielle Adams, Benjamin Converse and co-authors explain why people systematically overlook subtractive improvements. Learn more
Oct 12, 2020 Batten Student Leads Efforts to Register Voters, Recruit Poll Workers as Deadline Looms Leadership Ahead of Virginia’s voter registration deadline Tuesday, Batten student Hannah Koizumi (BA '21) is helping her peers register to vote, volunteer as poll workers and make a plan to get to the polls. READ IN UVA TODAY
May 04, 2020 Batten Teams Up With Center for Politics to Launch Virtual Internship for Students Who Lost Summer Jobs Leadership Batten teams up with the Center for Politics and several public service-focused departments at UVA – including the Miller Center for Public Affairs, the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership, and the UVA Career Center – to quickly design and launch a five-week virtual summer internship program. READ IN UVA TODAY
Feb 24, 2020 Paul Ryan Recounts His Days on Capitol Hill, Talks Current Events in Dome Room Political Science Leadership The former Speaker of the House joined the Batten School and Center for Politics to discuss the 2020 election, impeachment, Congress and more. READ IN UVA TODAY