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Learn more May 23, 2018 Three Batten Graduates Secure Staff Positions with North Carolina General Assembly Master's degree graduates Madison Lahey, Grant Schwab, and Mary Greeson will begin work this summer in the Fiscal Research Division of the North Carolina General Assembly. Learn more May 21, 2018 Batten's 2018 Graduates Honored for Perseverance, Integrity, Leadership, and Academic Achievement More than three dozen 2018 Batten graduates received year-end recognition with an impressive range of accolades honoring intellectual curiosity, athletic success, character, service, and kindness, among other attributes. Learn more May 18, 2018 Batten's Jeff Bergner: A Professor's Advice to the 2018 Graduates "Do your best to make the world better, but don’t try to compel it to mirror your ideas in every particular. This will make you permanently unhappy." — Jeff Bergner, who teaches the Batten Capstone Seminar "War Powers." Learn more May 16, 2018 Batten Family Gift Supports $20 Million for Graduate Student Fellowships Learn more May 11, 2018 Congressman Connolly Discusses Technology, Immigration, Privacy and Other Issues With UVA Students Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) spoke in April to students in Professor Gerald Warburg's course, “Public Policy Challenges of the 21st Century." Learn more May 10, 2018 New Batten Course This Fall Will Focus on Political Action and Engagement Paul Martin's class will address the theme of political mobilization, focusing on movements as diverse as civil rights; tax revolt in California; and labor and union activity in coal mining regions of West Virginia, southern Virginia and Tennessee; and other social actions as well. (photo by Don Hamerman) Learn more May 08, 2018 Class of 2018: Globetrotting Batten Student Did Anything But Stay Home For School Althea Pickering will join the World Food Programme in D.C. as a partnerships officer. The organization is the leading humanitarian organization fighting hunger worldwide, delivering food assistance in emergencies and working with communities to improve nutrition and resilience. (photo courtesy of Dan Addison, University Communications) Learn more May 04, 2018 Batten Assistant Professor Dan Player Receives UVA's 2018 All-University Teaching Award "I teach students, not courses. I know I have met my main objective when my students begin to see the world in a different way." — Dan Player (photo by Jack Looney) Learn more May 03, 2018 Batten's Leickert: Elite Universities Must Do More to Help Low-Income High School Students Like Me Our public universities have to do more to make sure they’re not merely credentialing factories for the already advantaged, and that they are instead actively building pipelines for students from high schools like mine, composed of large numbers of minority and low-income students, struggling with accreditation, and stuck with low college enrollment. Policymakers should take steps to ensure this happens. Learn more Apr 29, 2018 Batten Honors Former Virginia House of Delegates Speaker William J. Howell With "Outstanding Virginian" Award Former speaker of Virginia's House of Delegates William J. Howell received the 2018 Outstanding Virginian award at a ceremony at Batten's Garrett Hall. Learn more Apr 29, 2018 Q&A: Denuclearization in North Korea? Batten's Todd Sechser Isn't Holding His Breath "North Korea spent several decades and billions of scarce dollars developing its nuclear and missile capabilities. (North Korean leader Kim Jong Un) is not going to give them up in exchange for a handshake and a smile." — Todd Sechser Learn more Pagination Previous page ‹ Previous Page 51 Page 52 Page 53 Page 54 Current page 55 Page 56 Page 57 Page 58 Page 59 Next page Next › Stay Up To Date with the Latest Batten News and Events Subscribe
May 31, 2018 Parks Daniel, Dual Batten-Darden Graduate, Looks Ahead to High-Impact Career With Mastercard "It’s the combination of Batten and Darden that has brought me to this place." — 2018 dual graduate Parks Daniel. Learn more
May 23, 2018 Three Batten Graduates Secure Staff Positions with North Carolina General Assembly Master's degree graduates Madison Lahey, Grant Schwab, and Mary Greeson will begin work this summer in the Fiscal Research Division of the North Carolina General Assembly. Learn more
May 21, 2018 Batten's 2018 Graduates Honored for Perseverance, Integrity, Leadership, and Academic Achievement More than three dozen 2018 Batten graduates received year-end recognition with an impressive range of accolades honoring intellectual curiosity, athletic success, character, service, and kindness, among other attributes. Learn more
May 18, 2018 Batten's Jeff Bergner: A Professor's Advice to the 2018 Graduates "Do your best to make the world better, but don’t try to compel it to mirror your ideas in every particular. This will make you permanently unhappy." — Jeff Bergner, who teaches the Batten Capstone Seminar "War Powers." Learn more
May 11, 2018 Congressman Connolly Discusses Technology, Immigration, Privacy and Other Issues With UVA Students Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) spoke in April to students in Professor Gerald Warburg's course, “Public Policy Challenges of the 21st Century." Learn more
May 10, 2018 New Batten Course This Fall Will Focus on Political Action and Engagement Paul Martin's class will address the theme of political mobilization, focusing on movements as diverse as civil rights; tax revolt in California; and labor and union activity in coal mining regions of West Virginia, southern Virginia and Tennessee; and other social actions as well. (photo by Don Hamerman) Learn more
May 08, 2018 Class of 2018: Globetrotting Batten Student Did Anything But Stay Home For School Althea Pickering will join the World Food Programme in D.C. as a partnerships officer. The organization is the leading humanitarian organization fighting hunger worldwide, delivering food assistance in emergencies and working with communities to improve nutrition and resilience. (photo courtesy of Dan Addison, University Communications) Learn more
May 04, 2018 Batten Assistant Professor Dan Player Receives UVA's 2018 All-University Teaching Award "I teach students, not courses. I know I have met my main objective when my students begin to see the world in a different way." — Dan Player (photo by Jack Looney) Learn more
May 03, 2018 Batten's Leickert: Elite Universities Must Do More to Help Low-Income High School Students Like Me Our public universities have to do more to make sure they’re not merely credentialing factories for the already advantaged, and that they are instead actively building pipelines for students from high schools like mine, composed of large numbers of minority and low-income students, struggling with accreditation, and stuck with low college enrollment. Policymakers should take steps to ensure this happens. Learn more
Apr 29, 2018 Batten Honors Former Virginia House of Delegates Speaker William J. Howell With "Outstanding Virginian" Award Former speaker of Virginia's House of Delegates William J. Howell received the 2018 Outstanding Virginian award at a ceremony at Batten's Garrett Hall. Learn more
Apr 29, 2018 Q&A: Denuclearization in North Korea? Batten's Todd Sechser Isn't Holding His Breath "North Korea spent several decades and billions of scarce dollars developing its nuclear and missile capabilities. (North Korean leader Kim Jong Un) is not going to give them up in exchange for a handshake and a smile." — Todd Sechser Learn more