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Student LifeBatten Student Returns to Ghana to Make a DifferenceWorking with a team of colleagues, 4th-year Batten student Emmanuel Agyemang-Dua established the 21st Century Citizens Initiative (21st CCI), whose aim it is to help Ghanaian youth embrace technology and become more involved in local policy issues and their creation.
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Research and CommentaryWarburg: Don’t tread on public serviceHyper-partisanship and the politics of personal destruction are plagues of our time. So, too, is the pervasive distrust of institutions citizens have built up and looked to for generations.
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Student LifeNew Program Allows Any Undergrad to Minor in EntrepreneurshipThe University of Virginia will launch one of its largest interdisciplinary degree programs to date this month. The new entrepreneurship minor is open to all undergraduate students and represents a strategic collaboration between multiple schools.
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Alumni in ActionMPP Alumna Wins NAEd/Spencer Dissertation FellowshipVeronica Katz, a doctoral student in the Education Policy doctoral program, has been awarded a National Academy of Education (NAEd) / Spencer 2015 Dissertation Fellowship for $27,500.
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Research and CommentaryWarburg and Bergner: Learning From Two Long Wars
Throughout our history, the years immediately following military conflicts have often proved rich in reform.
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Student LifeBatten Prepares: An Internship SnapshotWhen she left Charlottesville for the summer, MPP student Nora Neus had no idea how much a Batten education would help her in the workplace.
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Professor Chou Writes in the New York Times on PowerBehavioral science research has demonstrated that power confers psychological resources on its holders that might help stave off the loneliness that can accompany isolation.
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Research and CommentarySlovak Ambassador Discusses Entrepreneurship Policy in Central EuropeThe Ambassador’s presentation, “The Slovak Entrepreneurial Ecosystem and the Visegrád Group of Four States,” covered recent efforts by the Slovak Embassy in Washington, DC, as well as the country’s government in Slovakia.
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Batten Welcomes New FacultyNew Batten faculty will be teaching classes in social entrepreneurship, policy analysis and education policy, among others.
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Research and CommentaryEngelhard: Time for an All-Payer Health System?Economists tell us that setting the price of a good or service depends on market forces that balance supply and demand in order to optimize output with minimal waste.
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Alumni in ActionBatten Alumna Promotes Gender Equality by the NumbersRorem wants more people to see all the hidden truths that math reveals about everyday life and how female mathematicians are contributing to that understanding.
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Research and CommentaryProfessor Mbiti’s Work in Tanzania RecognizedProfessor Mbiti began working with the organization Twaweza and Tanzanian government partners to develop a study called KiuFunza (“thirst for learning”) in 2012.