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The Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy would like to recognize recent student accomplishments across University of Virginia Grounds and beyond.

Siblings Gillian and Kyle Gardiner grew up together in the Charlottesville area and now live only steps apart as the residents of 33 West Lawn and 33 West Range, respectively – for a few more days anyway, until they graduate the weekend of May 20 through 22.

When Ethan Loufield first learned about Impact Business Leaders program, he remarked, “I thought it had to be too good to be true.” After having worked across the business, nonprofit and government sectors, he increasingly wanted to do work where he could simultaneously draw upon the relative strengths of all three.

On Friday, April 29th, two Batten School MPP students traveled to the Pentagon to participate in the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Force of the Future event.

Graduating student seeks results internationally through summer project in Ghana.

How do you get people to stop doing something? If you’re an economist, you might try paying them to stop. That’s just what the town of Richmond, CA, has done to reduce violent crime. The town has had success with this program so far – so much that other cities are considering adopting it. The idea sounds crazy, and seems like an insult to hard-working, law-abiding citizens. There are reasons to think it could be a disaster. But there is at least one reason it could work.

We sat down with Eva Galdo, a 2015 graduate the Education Policy program, to learn more about her educational experience and her professional life beyond UVA. Eva Galdo, Ph.D. is currently an associate education research scientist in the Standards and Review Office at the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) in the U.S. Department of Education.

The fact that the program offers a diverse curriculum made to confront the current issues of society and prepare exceptional leaders. The first time I heard about the school was when I was a first year at UVA. I saw a banner outside Garret Hall that said "Make a Difference," which caught my attention.

The Social Entrepreneurship @ UVA (SE@UVA) Pay for Success Lab will be supporting research in a newly announced supportive housing grant.

Batten School MPP alumna Natalie Roper was selected as one of two Woman of the Year "Rising Stars" at the recent West Virginia Women’s Leadership Summit.

The University of Virginia Alumni Association has awarded Batten MPP student Malcolm Brogdon the 2016 Ernest H. Ern Distinguished Student Award at its annual board of managers meeting.

Professor Bala Mulloth launched Developing a New Social Venture, a capstone course offered to fourth-years in Batten’s undergraduate program. Part of the suite of SE@UVA social entrepreneurship classes, the three-credit course, originally taught by Professor Mulloth to MBA students at Central European University Business School in Budapest, takes students “out of the classroom and into the marketplace.” Throughout the semester, students have the opportunity to explore entrepreneurship by building a business from the ground up. Student self-organize in teams and work with Professor Mulloth and local entrepreneurs to take their ideas from concept to launch, culminating in a final assessment of the venture’s viability.