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550 Students Around the World Compete to Stop the Next PandemicOn February 24 and March 3, more than 550 graduate students from around the globe will compete through computer-based simulated game play to combat a devastating pandemic during the 2018 NASPAA-Batten Student Simulation Competition.
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Visionary Artist Presents Batten With Powerful Artwork at Black History Month ExhibitionArtist Danny Doughty of Onancock, Va. pays tribute to the African-American women of the Eastern Shore who sustained him through difficult circumstances. He spoke at the Feb. 19 Batten Hour presentation. A reception and exhibition of his work is at 3 p.m. Monday, Feb. 19.
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Why Everyone Should Take Global Humanitarian Crises"Global Humanitarian Crises...prompts us to consider that there are career paths—besides those that seek to simply accumulate the most wealth—that can enact real change in the world and save the lives of those victims that we only hear about on the news." — Luke Fischer, columnist, The Cavalier Daily (photo by Jack Looney)
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Batten Student’s New Book Shows Courage of Death Penalty OpponentMPP student Margaret Anderson co-wrote "A Courageous Fool: Marie Deans and Her Struggle against the Death Penalty," published by Vanderbilt University Press. (photo by Jack Looney)
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Opioid use associated with nonadherence to adjuvant endocrine therapy among breast cancer survivors
Dr. Balkrishnan answers question regarding published finding by himself and other colleagues to HemOnctoday
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MACRA, Physicians, and “Big Med”
Rick Mayes, Ph.D. a Clinical Professor of Nursing, gives his opinion on MACRA, Physicians, and "Big MED" for Viewpoints a health policy blog of UVA Public Health Sciences
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Professor’s Research Traces Primary Cause of Opioid Epidemic. It’s Not Despair“This is an extremely serious crisis,” said Batten's Christopher Ruhm. “We need a comprehensive strategy to alert people to the risks of these drugs, in much the same way we have done with the dangers of smoking.” (photo by Dan Addison, University Communications)
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Spring 2018 State of the School Address by Batten School Dean Allan C. Stam, January 22, 2018"We are building a community that is tolerant and compassionate, that celebrates diversity, that is gritty, curious and resilient." — Batten School Dean Allan C. Stam, Spring 2018 State of the School Address
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Q&A With Philip Potter, Batten’s National Security Policy Center Director"This has been an important time in national security, and there has been a lot of rethinking going on in the context of the Trump administration in terms of what the U.S.’s posture should look like, what our strategy should look like, where we should be making investments, and all those sorts of things." — Philip Potter, Director of Batten's National Security Policy Center