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John Negroponte engaged Batten MPP students and undergraduates on key international policy challenges.

Former Majority Leader Eric Cantor spoke at the University of Virginia about the 2016 Presidential Campaign and the economic growth agenda.

Professor Gerry Warburg interviews former White House Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers.

Assistant Professor Jennifer Doleac discusses her new paper coming from The Review of Economics and Statistics on the Brookings Institute blog.

James Wyckoff receives the 2015 Raymond Vernon Memorial Award from the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM).

MPP student Blake Foster is among a select group of students to receive a UVA Environmental Resilience & Sustainability Fellowship, which provides funding for her thesis project to map food systems in Charlottesville.

Former Congressmen Tom Davis (R-VA) and Martin Frost (D-TX) discussed the nature of partisan politics in modern elections, the 2016 cycle and their book, "The Partisan Divide."

Mahoney, author of “Brussels vs. the Beltway: Advocacy in the United States and the European Union,” said Americans arriving in Brussels quickly adapt to a slower, more consensual approach to policymaking, in which the scuttling of legislation is not an option.

The Batten School had an exceptional number of graduate students chosen to participate in the program.

USA Today's sports section, For the Win, highlights Malcom Brogdon, an NBA top pick and a Batten MPP student.

Batten professor Christopher Ruhm’s research is referenced in a recent Wall Street Journal article.

MPP student Zachary Blackburn and his team of fellow graduate students' proposal won the 2015 Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs and Administration (NASPAA) Student Simulation Competition.