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The Batten School Announces Recipients of the Royster-Lawton Scholarship Fund
Today, the University of Virginia Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy announced the 2018-19 student recipients of the Royster-Lawton Scholarship Fund. The fund, generously established in 2016 by UVA alumna Jill Royster and her husband Drew Lawton, supports students in Batten’s undergraduate and accelerated Master of Public Policy (MPP) degree programs who are pursuing work in social entrepreneurship.
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Recovery, Resolve, and Resilience: Dominica Presents Students with Unique Social Entrepreneurship Challenges"We're looking at how to reset the economy...to get people back onto the land, and create value from utilizing the land as a resource." — UVA's Bevin Etienne
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Dual Batten-Darden Graduate Recovers From Severe Injuries, Develops Medicinal Tea for InfectionsAli Barta's commitment to the success of her herbal products company, Nuna Med, is deeply personal. Her first product, called Urinary Tract SupporTea, treats her own chronic urinary tract infections, caused by a workplace accident in April 2014 that nearly killed her.
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Batten’s Sechser and Womack at Department of Politics Discuss Trump-Kim Summit"I want to know what the North Koreans are going to ask for. They have been very quiet about it so far, offering vague promises instead of saying what they might want. That is the big question for me." — Todd Sechser
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Batten’s Gratz Among UVA-Record 16 Fulbright ScholarsMaggie Gratz, an accelerated Master's degree graduate, will serve as an English teaching assistant in Jaffna, Sri Lanka beginning in the fall.
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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.
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Three Batten Graduates Secure Staff Positions with North Carolina General AssemblyMaster'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.
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Batten’s 2018 Graduates Honored for Perseverance, Integrity, Leadership, and Academic AchievementMore 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.
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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."
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Batten Family Gift Supports $20 Million for Graduate Student Fellowships
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Congressman Connolly Discusses Technology, Immigration, Privacy and Other Issues With UVA StudentsRep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) spoke in April to students in Professor Gerald Warburg's course, “Public Policy Challenges of the 21st Century."
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New Batten Course This Fall Will Focus on Political Action and EngagementPaul 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)