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Simulation Learning Takes Students Out of the Classroom and Into the Middle of Public CrisesEvery year, hundreds of master’s candidates from member institutions of NASPAA — the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration — participate in the NASPAA-Batten Student Simulation Competition, co-hosted by Batten's Center for Leadership Simulation and Gaming, to see who can devise the best solutions to international crises.
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Alum in ActionAlum in Action: Kathryn BabineauBatten alum Kathryn Babineau (MPP ’13) is a Ph.D. student in the University of Virginia's sociology department, where she studies globalization, labor rights, and public and private regulation. Previously, she worked as a human rights investigator for the Fair Food Standards Council and as a research coordinator at National Defense University.
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Experts Discuss the Challenges Facing Democracy Globally'Democracies in Crisis' panel, co-hosted by the Batten School and Center for Politics, brought together expert and public perspectives on democracy today.
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The Batten School Names Craig Lindqvist as New Associate Dean for AdministrationThe Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy has named Craig Lindqvist the new associate dean for administration. Lindqvist will succeed Bill Ashby as the chief financial and administrative officer for the school.
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UVA Honors Its Leading Researchers at Boar’s Head BanquetThe inaugural Research Achievement Awards featured University leaders handing out 13 honors to UVA’s most outstanding researchers, including Batten's Daphna Bassok and Brian Williams.
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Roxane Gay Calls for Compromise in ‘Age of Inelasticity’ at MLK EventThe author and cultural critic, keynote speaker for UVA’s Community Martin Luther King Celebration hosted by UVA’s Division for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, the Batten School, and other partners, spoke about “the age of inelasticity” and the difficulties of creating a global community.
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Alum in ActionAlum in Action: Mimi WuAs the co-founder of Myanmar Recycles, a plastic recycling company cleaning up the dirtiest post-consumer plastic film in Myanmar, Mimi Wu (MPP ‘09) remains committed to inciting positive change in communities around the world.
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Sen. Tim Kaine Discusses War Powers Legislation With UVA StudentsVirginia’s junior senator, who introduced legislation limiting presidential war powers as tensions escalated in the Middle East, said he came to the Batten School to hear from the one group likely to be most affected by war: young people.
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Faculty Spotlight: Investment, Not Charity, Will Alleviate Poverty in AppalachiaAfter researching how impact investment can combat poverty around the world, Batten School professor Christine Mahoney is looking to tackle issues closer to home.
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Q&A: Professor Explores One of the Most Vexing Trends in U.S. ElectionsThe United States has one of the lowest youth voter turnout rates in the world. Batten's John Holbein is determined to find out why and how to fix it.
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Not fake news: Major study finds no “liberal bias” in media — but there are other problemsConservatives have pushed one complaint above all others: The media is biased against them because it is overwhelmingly staffed by liberal journalists. A new study from a team that includes UVA’s John Holbein provides the strongest evidence ever that they’re half-right – but only the least important half.
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The High Costs of a Precipitous US Withdrawal from AfghanistanBatten’s Phil Potter and co-authors discuss how America’s war in Afghanistan — the longest conflict in U.S. history — has morphed from a counterterrorism mission into something more ambitious but less well defined and, ultimately, less successful.