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Does It Mean Anything That Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is Apologizing—Again?"When an apology keeps being issued over and over and a transgression keeps being repeated, the apology comes to have less meaning and less impact." — Batten's Gabrielle Adams
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Q&A: Tearing Down Barriers the Key for the First Blind Climber of Mount EverestErik Weihenmayer, the first blind person to climb Mount Everest and the Seven Summits, gave an inspiring talk about overcoming barriers to Batten students and others in the Dome Rome of the University of Virginia’s Rotunda. Weihenmayer was Batten's Class of 2018 spring speaker.
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Dying to Win? Batten Professor Finds Olympic Silver Medalists Live LongerBatten's Adam Leive found that Olympic track and field silver medalists lived longer than the top finishers: almost a year and a half longer, on average. (photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, from Agência Brasil Fotografias.)
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Game On: Batten Students Prepare to Save the WorldLed by Batten's Center for Leadership Simulation and Gaming, 550 public policy students from 159 universities in 27 countries participated in dealing with a global flu pandemic exercise. (Photo by Dan Addison, University Communications)
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Veteran Social Innovator and Founder of Atlas Corps Discussed Leadership in the Changing World During SE@UVA Speaker SeriesScott Beale will discuss "The Role of Leadership in Changing the World" at 5 p.m. on Thursday, March 22 in the Great Hall. Scott and his team have grown Atlas Corps to involve more than 600 social change leaders from 88 countries.
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Batten Speaker Dr. Lilia Abron Challenges Students to Take On Environmental Policy Issues—Now“The environment is all about clean water, clean air, clean land, and healthy communities. You have the responsibility to write public policy that ensures that and does not deviate.” — Lilia Abron
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Batten’s Doleac to CNN: Opioid Overdose Antidote Policies “May be Making Things Worse”"The main takeaway is that broadening access to naloxone leads to an increase in opioid abuse." — Jennifer Doleac. (photo of naloxone kit courtesy of WikiMedia)
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The Center for Effective Lawmaking, College Republicans at UVA, and Batten School to Co-Host Senate Republican Primary Debate
On Tuesday, March 27, 2018, the University of Virginia Center for Effective Lawmaking (CEL), College Republicans at UVA, and the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy will co-host the U.S. Senate Republican Primary Debate in the Great Hall of Garrett Hall at 6:30 p.m. EDT.
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Batten Honors Retired Virginia House of Delegates Speaker William J. Howell as the Outstanding Virginian of 2018The Batten School and the Outstanding Virginian Committee have selected retired Virginia House of Delegates Speaker William J. Howell as the Outstanding Virginian of 2018. A ceremony to honor Howell will be held on Saturday, April 28, 2018. (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia)
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Dream Team: Batten’s Malcolm Brogdon Joins Fellow UVA Alum Chris Long to Champion Clean WaterTwo former UVA greats—NBA star Malcolm Brogdon, 2017 Rookie of the Year, right; and two-time Super Bowl champion Chris Long—have teamed up for a project to provide clean drinking water to parts of East Africa. (photos courtesy of Waterboys and Sanjay Suchak, University Communications)
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Batten’s Veronica Latsko Wins High ACC Athletics Honor While Pursuing Professional SoccerVeronica Latsko has started her professional career, trying out for a roster spot with the Houston Dash, one of nine teams in the top women’s professional soccer league in the United States. She recently was selected as one of three ACC student-athletes to receive the prestigious 2018 Thacker Award.
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Trump Wants to Cut Immigration and Foreign Aid. Here’s How They’re Connected."There has been little public focus on the possibility that the government will reallocate aid to address migration concerns at the expense of other policy priorities. Yet this is a likely outcome, in the United States and across many donor countries." — David Leblang and co-author Sarah Bermeo (photo by Jonathan McIntosh, courtesy Wikimedia Commons)