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Student StoriesBatten Students Share How 9/11 Has Influenced Their LivesAs the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks approaches, Batten student Jane Frankel (BA '22) and alum Matt Gillam (BA '21) share their impressions of 9/11 and its lasting influences.
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Student StoriesBatten Builds: A Day in PhotographsAfter a challenging year and a half, Batten students were especially excited to serve their community in person.
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Faculty Spotlight: The Social InnovatorBatten professor Molly Lipscomb has a creative solution to a public sanitation crisis—and a new vision for the center that’s helping to address it.
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Racial Justice and EquityBatten Researcher Brings Police, Students Together to Better Understand Each OtherPolice and students can learn from one another if they talk more, according to Batten's Brian N. Williams, an associate professor of public policy.
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Research and CommentaryLeblang: How resettling Afghan refugees might help Afghanistan’s futureIn an article for The Washington Post, Batten's David Leblang and co-author Margaret Peters explain how migrants help their home countries by building trade ties and by sending back both cash and political knowledge.
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Research and CommentaryEmployees Often Hesitate to Speak Up in the Workplace. What Can We Do About It?Batten postdoctoral fellow Jieun Pai is studying the complicated dynamics between workers and their managers.
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Research and CommentaryBatten Experts Discuss Humanitarian Response to Earthquake in Haiti with BBC, Christian Science MonitorBatten School experts are weighing in on the international humanitarian response to the 7.2 magnitude earthquake that shook Haiti last weekend. Batten professor Kirsten Gelsdorf, who worked in 2010 as the Humanitarian Advisor to President Clinton in his role as the UN Special Envoy for the Haiti Earthquake, spoke to The Christian Science Monitor and alum Makayla Palazzo (MPP ’18) joined "BBC World News" live from Port-au-Prince.
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Research and CommentaryShobe: Net-zero emissions by 2050 are achievable, affordable in Va.In an article for The Virginian-Pilot, Batten's William Shobe writes that with careful planning and policy design, decarbonization in the Commonwealth is achievable by 2050. Earlier this year, Shobe and his colleagues at UVA’s Energy Transition Initiative released the state's first study to analyze the actions needed to reach this goal.
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Batten Clinical Psychologist Offers 6 Tips for Parents of New College StudentsBatten's Tim Davis advises parents to put down the phone, stop texting their kids and give them the space and permission to struggle and build their own new, supportive networks in college.
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Research and CommentarySpace Norms and U.S. National Security: Leading on Space DebrisIn a new article for the online national security magazine War on the Rocks, Batten's Philip Potter, George W. Foresman and University of Pennsylvania's Michael Horowitz write that, given the rapid change of pace and recent developments in space, technical and operational standards and norms of behavior will be necessary to maintain a secure and sustainable domain.
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Student StoriesBatten Students Engage With Politics via 22nd Century Scholars ProgramThis summer, 50 students have been selected to participate in UVA’s 22nd Century Scholars program, designed to give students public-sector, event-planning, political and historical research, and video documentary work experience. Meet three Batten students participating in this year's program.
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Alum in ActionDana Laurens: Opening Opportunities in EducationDana Laurens (MPP ’10) knows firsthand how much good schools matter. When she was a child, she and her parents immigrated from Trinidad so she could get a better education, and she became the first in her family to go to college. This year, she was named to Washingtonian magazine’s Most Influential People list.