Latest News
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First Batten/Curry Double-Major to Graduate This SpringDiane D’Costa will graduate in the spring as the first student to double-major in the Batten School and the Curry School of Education, studying both Leadership and Public Policy and Youth and Social Innovation.
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Scaling Mt. Everest: Resilience as a Team Exercise"Resilience is an essential element of leadership, and it’s a critical skill for students to develop at UVA." — UVA President Teresa Sullivan
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Batten’s Williams to CNN: How the CVS-Aetna Merger Could Change Your Health Care"I think that we're going to see the growth of more and more clinics where health services are being provided in the CVS footprint geographically." — Dr. Michael Williams, Director of the UVA Center for Health Policy, a joint program of the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and the University of Virginia School of Medicine, Department of Public Health Sciences.
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Batten Alumna Named One of Southern Living’s Southerners of the YearBatten's School alumna Natalie Roper (MPP ’14) is one of Southern Living magazine's 2017 Southerners of the Year. (photo courtesy of Perry Bennett Photography)
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Middle-Class Families Confront Soaring Health Insurance Costs
Professor Carolyn L. Engelhard was featured in an article discussing soaring health insurance cost.
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Caught in the coverage gap: Premiums spike in Central Virginia
Carolyn Engelhard, Associate Professor at UVA and director of the Health Policy Program featured in article posted on the daily progress website
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Unnecessary Medicine – The Trump administration isn’t taking on the medical system’s culture of waste
Carolyn Engelhard, M.P.A, co-wrote Unnecessary Medicine with Andrew Parsons that was featured in US News
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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.