Admissions & Aid Applying to Batten Batten Ambassadors Batten Reports: Fall 2013 September 1, 2013 Areas of focus Education UVA partners School of Education and Human Development Batten Reports: Fall 2013 Learn more about Batten partnership with The Curry School to develop the Center on Education Policy and Workforce Competitiveness. This issue also considers Professor Christopher Ruhm’s health policy research and the politics of evidence-based medicine, according to Professor Eric Patashnik.