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Learn more Aug 29, 2018 Center For Effective Lawmaking Discusses Rising Drug Costs, Other Issues With Congressional Aides "If there is any maxim in health policy, it's this: nothing is as simple as it seems." — Carolyn Engelhard, Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences and Public Policy Learn more Aug 28, 2018 The Batten School Welcomes Three New Professors for the 2018-19 Academic Year The Batten School's unique approach attracts some of the nation’s best scholar-practitioners from around the globe. Learn more Aug 22, 2018 Batten's Leblang: How Deporting Immigrants From the U.S. Increases Immigration to the U.S. "Deportation policies don’t merely affect deportees’ countries of origin. They also create a vicious migration cycle by pushing more people away from their homes." Learn more Aug 20, 2018 Batten MPP Leads Program Where First-Generation UVA and Local Students Rise Together Batten MPP student Bryan Christ and his mother, Gina, created "Rise Together," a non-profit group-mentoring program that pairs UVA students with dozens of students at three Albemarle County schools. (photo by Dan Addison, University Communications) Learn more Aug 10, 2018 Batten's Lipscomb Helps Break Up Senegal's "Toilet Cartel" Molly Lipscomb and others worked with the Senegalese Ministry of Sanitation to improve waste disposal in the capital city of Dakar. Learn more Aug 08, 2018 Batten Welcomes the MPP Class of 2020 Learn more Aug 08, 2018 United Kingdom Next Stop for Batten Student, Two Others, with $40,000 Each in Rotary Scholarships Accelerated MPP David Varghese will pursue a Master of Public Health degree at Imperial College London. Learn more Aug 08, 2018 Batten Professor and Others Argue that President Trump has Probably Increased Illegal Migration In this essay in The Washington Post, David Leblang and others argue that President Trump has probably increased illegal migration by ending ‘temporary protected status’ for half a million people. "The Trump administration argues that ending TPS designations will decrease the flow of undocumented migrants across the border. Our research suggests precisely the opposite." Learn more Aug 07, 2018 Batten Alum and Fellow UVA Graduate Develop New Snack Food to Satisfy—and Enlighten—You Recent Batten graduate Chenam Barshee, left, and fellow UVA alum Sogyel Lhungay launched their new company, Tsampa Tsnacks, through the UVA i.Lab Incubator Program. Learn more Aug 03, 2018 The Batten School Opens Applications for Fall 2019 Applications for the Batten School’s Master of Public Policy (MPP), Accelerated MPP, and Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy and Leadership programs are now open. The school’s programs inspire students to act vigorously, effectively and ethically on behalf of the common good. Learn more Jul 30, 2018 The Batten School Announces Recipients of the Bocock and Hitz Public Service Fellowship The Batten School announced the 2018-19 student recipients of the Bocock and Hitz Public Service Fellowship. Established in 2012 by a generous gift from Fred Hitz and Mary Buford Bocock, the Bocock and Hitz Public Service Fellowship Fund supports outstanding students in Batten’s Master of Public Policy (MPP) degree programs who are committed to effecting positive change through careers in public service. 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Aug 30, 2018 The Batten School and UVA Center for Politics Announce Democracy in Perilous Times: Unprecedented Challenges and Controversies With the midterm of a presidential administration approaching and control of the Congress and U.S. Supreme Court weighing in the balance, today the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and the UVA Center for Politics announced a new National Symposium Series on Democracy. Learn more
Aug 29, 2018 Center For Effective Lawmaking Discusses Rising Drug Costs, Other Issues With Congressional Aides "If there is any maxim in health policy, it's this: nothing is as simple as it seems." — Carolyn Engelhard, Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences and Public Policy Learn more
Aug 28, 2018 The Batten School Welcomes Three New Professors for the 2018-19 Academic Year The Batten School's unique approach attracts some of the nation’s best scholar-practitioners from around the globe. Learn more
Aug 22, 2018 Batten's Leblang: How Deporting Immigrants From the U.S. Increases Immigration to the U.S. "Deportation policies don’t merely affect deportees’ countries of origin. They also create a vicious migration cycle by pushing more people away from their homes." Learn more
Aug 20, 2018 Batten MPP Leads Program Where First-Generation UVA and Local Students Rise Together Batten MPP student Bryan Christ and his mother, Gina, created "Rise Together," a non-profit group-mentoring program that pairs UVA students with dozens of students at three Albemarle County schools. (photo by Dan Addison, University Communications) Learn more
Aug 10, 2018 Batten's Lipscomb Helps Break Up Senegal's "Toilet Cartel" Molly Lipscomb and others worked with the Senegalese Ministry of Sanitation to improve waste disposal in the capital city of Dakar. Learn more
Aug 08, 2018 United Kingdom Next Stop for Batten Student, Two Others, with $40,000 Each in Rotary Scholarships Accelerated MPP David Varghese will pursue a Master of Public Health degree at Imperial College London. Learn more
Aug 08, 2018 Batten Professor and Others Argue that President Trump has Probably Increased Illegal Migration In this essay in The Washington Post, David Leblang and others argue that President Trump has probably increased illegal migration by ending ‘temporary protected status’ for half a million people. "The Trump administration argues that ending TPS designations will decrease the flow of undocumented migrants across the border. Our research suggests precisely the opposite." Learn more
Aug 07, 2018 Batten Alum and Fellow UVA Graduate Develop New Snack Food to Satisfy—and Enlighten—You Recent Batten graduate Chenam Barshee, left, and fellow UVA alum Sogyel Lhungay launched their new company, Tsampa Tsnacks, through the UVA i.Lab Incubator Program. Learn more
Aug 03, 2018 The Batten School Opens Applications for Fall 2019 Applications for the Batten School’s Master of Public Policy (MPP), Accelerated MPP, and Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy and Leadership programs are now open. The school’s programs inspire students to act vigorously, effectively and ethically on behalf of the common good. Learn more
Jul 30, 2018 The Batten School Announces Recipients of the Bocock and Hitz Public Service Fellowship The Batten School announced the 2018-19 student recipients of the Bocock and Hitz Public Service Fellowship. Established in 2012 by a generous gift from Fred Hitz and Mary Buford Bocock, the Bocock and Hitz Public Service Fellowship Fund supports outstanding students in Batten’s Master of Public Policy (MPP) degree programs who are committed to effecting positive change through careers in public service. Learn more