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  • New Program Allows Any Undergrad to Minor in Entrepreneurship
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    New Program Allows Any Undergrad to Minor in Entrepreneurship

    The 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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  • MPP Alumna Wins NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship
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    MPP Alumna Wins NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship

    Veronica 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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  • Warburg and Bergner: Learning From Two Long Wars
    Research and Commentary
    Warburg 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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  • Batten Prepares: An Internship Snapshot
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    Batten Prepares: An Internship Snapshot

    When 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 Power
    Professor Chou Writes in the New York Times on Power

    Behavioral 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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  • Slovak Ambassador Discusses Entrepreneurship Policy in Central Europe
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    Slovak Ambassador Discusses Entrepreneurship Policy in Central Europe

    The 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 Faculty
    Batten Welcomes New Faculty

    New Batten faculty will be teaching classes in social entrepreneurship, policy analysis and education policy, among others.

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  • Engelhard: Time for an All-Payer Health System?
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    Engelhard: 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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  • Batten Alumna Promotes Gender Equality by the Numbers
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    Batten Alumna Promotes Gender Equality by the Numbers

    Rorem 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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  • Professor Mbiti’s Work in Tanzania Recognized
    Research and Commentary
    Professor Mbiti’s Work in Tanzania Recognized

    Professor Mbiti began working with the organization Twaweza and Tanzanian government partners to develop a study called KiuFunza (“thirst for learning”) in 2012.

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  • Conservatives worry that Obamacare is a ‘super-statute.’ It isn’t quite one yet.
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    Conservatives worry that Obamacare is a ‘super-statute.’ It isn’t quite one yet.

    Obamacare is a limited law, full of compromises that were necessary to secure its enactment.

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  • Gibbs Named National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow
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    Gibbs Named National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow

    Chloe Gibbs, an assistant professor of public policy and education and faculty at EdPolicyWorks, has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Academy of Education (NAEd)/Spencer Foundation program.

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