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Batten Graduation Balloons
Sep 11, 2019

Class of 2019 Student Awards

2019 Batten graduates received year-end recognition with an impressive range of accolades honoring academic achievement and attributes including intellectual curiosity, athletic success, character, service, kindness, and leadership.

Pobo Efekoro
May 10, 2019

He's One of a Kind: Batten's Pobo Efekoro

The ebullient young man who goes by Pobo is many things – a graduate student in UVA's Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, one of the elite throwers in NCAA track & field, an accomplished chess player and teacher, among them – but on this night he was an amateur working with a pro.

Students standing outside in a parking lot smiling for the camera
Dec 20, 2018

NSPC Students Meet with Pentagon and NSC Officials

Every year, Batten’s National Security Policy Center (NSPC) provides MPP students with a unique opportunity to shake hands with national security and defense officials. This year, NSPC director Philip Potter took students to visit the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) and the National Security Council (NSC) in Washington D.C.

BUC holiday party
Dec 13, 2018

'Tis the Season: Batten Students Know How to Give Back

In the midst of finals frenzy, Batten students are coming together to make the holidays a little merrier for others in Charlottesville and across the country. Last Friday, Dec. 7, the Batten Undergraduate Council (BUC) hosted a holiday party at the Charlottesville Boys and Girls Club at Buford Middle School.

Garrett Hall at Sunset

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