Admissions & Aid Applying to Batten Admissions Blog Posts Tagged with News Edgar O Olsen Ed Olsen is a professor emeritus of economics at the University of Virginia, where he has served as chairman of the economics department and was heavily involved in the creation and development of the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. Olsen's teaching and research has focused on public policy issues, especially concerning the welfare system. Within this broad area, his research specialty is low-income housing policy. Read More Batten Publication, Faculty, Event, News, Research, Research Speaker, Workshop, Department of Economics, Economics, Domestic Policy & Politics Andrew S Pennock Andy Pennock is an associate professor of public policy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. He serves UVA as the faculty director of Batten’s MPP orientation program, on Batten’s curriculum committee, and as an elected member of the Executive Council of the Faculty Senate. Pennock’s academic research examines public policy in the global economy as well as the scholarship of teaching and learning Read More Batten Publication, Executive Education, Faculty, Virginia Politics & Policy, Event, News, Research, Research Speaker, Workshop, Leadership, Political Science, Domestic Policy & Politics John Pepper John V. Pepper is a professor of economics and public policy at the Batten School and a professor of economics in the Department of Economics at the University of Virginia. His work examines identification problems that arise when evaluating a wide range of public policy questions including such subjects as health and disability programs, welfare policies (e.g., SNAP), and drug and crime policies. Read More Batten Publication, Faculty, Event, News, Research, Research Speaker, Workshop, Department of Economics, Economics Daniel W Player Dan Player is an associate professor of public policy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. His research focuses on issues in education policy. His work has examined questions such as how teacher ability is recognized and rewarded in schools, whether teacher performance predicts turnover, and how teachers respond to working conditions. Read More Batten Publication, Faculty, Event, News, Research, Research Speaker, Workshop, School of Education and Human Development, Education, Economics Timothy Wilson Timothy Wilson is a professor of psychology and public policy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and the Sherrell J Aston Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia. Wilson has conducted research showing the limits of introspection as a source of self-knowledge, the dangers of engaging in too much introspection about why we do what we do, the difficulty in predicting our future emotional reactions, as well as the pleasures we can derive from “just thinking.” He has also conducted research on applications of social psychology to address social problems. Read More Batten Publication, Faculty, Event, News, Research, Research Speaker, Workshop, Social Psychology Philip Potter Philip Potter is a professor of politics and Founding Director of the National Security Policy Center at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia. He is also a University Expert with the National Ground Intelligence Center, US Army INSCOM. He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Politics and the Journal of Global Security Studies and is an Associate Principal Investigator for Time-Sharing Experiments in the Social Sciences (TESS). Read More Batten Publication, Faculty, Event, News, Research, Research Speaker, Workshop, National Security Policy Center, National Security Policy Center, Department of Politics, National Security, Political Science Christopher J Ruhm Christopher J. Ruhm is a professor of public policy and economics at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. Ruhm’s recent research has focused on the role of government policies in helping parents with young children balance the competing needs of work and family life, and on examining how various aspects of health are produced – including the growth and sources of drug poisoning deaths in the United States, the rise in obesity and the relationship between macroeconomic conditions and health. Read More Batten Publication, Faculty, Event, News, Research, Research Speaker, Workshop, Health Policy, Economics James Savage James D. Savage is a professor of politics and public policy at the Batten School and a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. His research and teaching focus on comparative budgetary, fiscal, and macroeconomic policy, with an emphasis on the United States, the European Union, Iraq and Japan. He is particularly interested in the development of macrobudgetary rules, procedures, and institutions in these countries, and how they influence fiscal outcomes. Read More Batten Publication, Faculty, Event, News, Research, Research Speaker, Workshop, Department of Politics, Political Science, Domestic Policy & Politics Beth Schueler Beth Schueler is an assistant professor of education and public policy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. Schueler studies education policy, politics, and inequality with a focus on efforts to improve low-performing K-12 schools and districts. Read More Batten Publication, Faculty, Event, News, Research, Research Speaker, Workshop, School of Education and Human Development, Education Todd Sechser Todd S. Sechser is a professor of politics and public policy at the Batten School and the Pamela Feinour Edmonds and Franklin S. Edmonds Jr. Discovery Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia. Sechser is also a Senior Fellow at UVA's Miller Center. His research interests include coercive diplomacy, emerging technologies, nuclear security and political violence Read More Batten Publication, Faculty, Event, News, Research, Research Speaker, Workshop, Department of Politics, Miller Center, National Security, Political Science Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 9 Next page ›› Subscribe to News Categories Personal Statement(3) Events(12) Alumni(6) Curriculum(33) Application(33) MPP(39) Tuition and Financial Aid (1)Accelerated MPP(59) Admissions(47) Policy Minor(41) Faculty(2) Batten Ambassadors(29) BA(64) Career Outcomes(8) Recommendations(11) Student Life(37) Essays(8) SE Minor(23) Study Abroad (1)New Student(14)