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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)
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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 Announces New Public Policy and Leadership Minor