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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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Alum 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.
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Research and CommentaryConservatives 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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Research and CommentaryGibbs Named National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral FellowChloe 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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Student StoriesBatten Students Win Big at Philanthropy ConferencePaige McDermott (BA ‘15) and Stephanie Hough (BA ‘15) represented the school at a national conference and competition with representatives from 14 peer institutions to vie for the top prize of $50,000. McDermott and Hough’s proposal won the top prize this past weekend.
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Research and CommentaryProliferation and Iran: Learning to Live with Nuclear ThreatsThe complex endgame of negotiations between the major powers and Iran underscores the limited options states have to combat nuclear proliferation, something with which U.S. policy planners are going to have to learn to live.
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Student StoriesSE@UVA Welcomes Mandela Washington FellowsSponsored by the U.S. State Department, the Mandela Washington Fellowship is the flagship program of the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI). Each summer the University of Virginia and Presidential Precinct welcome young African leaders to Charlottesville for a multi-week training program with faculty, researchers, civic leaders and students.
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Research and CommentaryWarburg: Pope changes debate over global warmingBatten Professor Gerry Warburg discusses the extraordinary encyclical issued by Pope Francis this week and how it holds great promise for an issue that affects all life on our fragile planet.
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Student StoriesBatten Student Receives Miller Center FellowshipBatten student DeAnza Cook is one of two undergraduate students recently awarded a prestigious fellowship from the Miller Center.
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Research and CommentaryUpdating the Outdated: Craig Volden Seeks to Fix Research Model ErrorsResearch into public policy diffusion has exploded in the last 20 years. Scholars and thinkers have published hundreds of studies tracking the spread of policies from government to government. With countless dollars and thousands of hours invested, could it be that their studies are wrong? That’s what Batten School Professor Craig Volden seeks to find out.