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A Stitch in Time: Batten Student Leads Venture to Empower Women in Village in IndiaBatten's Jane Hammaker leads a student team whose award-winning enterprise serves women in India who make pants sold in the United States. (photo by Elisabeth Fellowes)
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Batten Students’ Experience on Capitol Hill Sheds Light on Realities in PolicymakingThe Washington, D.C. experience empowers "our current students to visualize how quickly they can get from the Batten School to a responsible policymaking job in Congress," said Gerald Warburg, Professor of Practice of Public Policy. (photo by Sam Levitan)
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Vision For Medicaid
On November 7, 2017 Administrator Seema Verma delivered her thoughts for the future of Medicaid.
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Batten Students Launch Self-Sustaining Social Venture, Reinvest Savings Back Into Capstone CourseBatten students created C'Full, a social venture that teaches nutrition and healthy living to students in Charlottesville and Albemarle County, in courses taught by Bala Mulloth, Assistant Professor of Public Policy.
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Batten-Sponsored Social Entrepreneurship Startup Poised for Global ImpactAshwinraj Karthikeyan's revolutionary wound-care bandage earned him a bronze medal in the Collegiate Inventors Competition. His advisor is Batten's Bala Mulloth.
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Behavioral Science is Influencing Policymaking—and Helping Parents Teach Their Kids to ReadBehavioral sciences have entered the mainstream of public policy innovation, development, and implementation, writes Batten's Ben Castleman. (Primary students studying in Marseille, France. Photo from Jean-Paul Pelissier of Reuters via Quartz Media.)
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Christine Mahoney on the Benefits of Integrating Displaced People"We are a welcoming nation. We are a leading nation. We are a leading light of freedom in the world, and we should care if people are running for their lives." — Professor Christine Mahoney (Refugees arriving in Greece; photo courtesy of WikiCommons)
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Batten’s United Nations Internships: “Utterly Invaluable” Experiences Abroad, and in New YorkUnited Nations Internships placed Batten students in the heart of global policy activities amid varied diplomatic crises and concerns. (photo of UNESCO interns in Paris courtesy of Isabela Medina-Maté)
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UVA Flash Funding Projects on Vinegar Hill, Other Topics to Address Racism LocallyBatten's Christine Mahoney and Bevin Etienne are among those helping to use the architectural concept of design thinking to generate and refine ideas for community redevelopment. (photo of old Vinegar Hill community from the Charlottesville Housing Authority via UVA's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities.)
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Making a Difference: UVA Community is Giving Back in Wake of Natural DisastersBatten School students recently raised money for ConPRmetidos, an independent, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization focusing on long-term relief and recovery efforts in Puerto Rico. Left to right: Jesse Berman, Stephen Thomson, Allison Turner, West Connors, Joe Khine, Tianwei Qu, Clara Gainey and Anna Troutman. (photo by Virginia Carter, University of Virginia)
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In-Kind Donations Collected at UVA for Hurricane Relief in Antigua and Barbuda“When I used to be deployed on the ground right after an emergency, you’re really trying to support who’s been injured in the emergency, and, in the early days, you’re trying to make sure there aren’t additional casualties from the crisis." — Batten's Kirsten Gelsdorf (photo courtesy of The Cavalier Daily.)
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Redistricting Reform Within Reach, Advocate Tells Batten Students"We're pretty close to winning sufficient support for future redistricting,” said Brian Cannon, executive director of the redistricting reform group OneVirginia2021.