Join the Miller Center and Professor of Public Policy and Batten's founding dean, Harry Harding, for a virtual edition of the Ambassador William C. Battle Symposium on American Diplomacy as we take an in-depth look at U.S.–Chinese relations during a time of global upheaval. 

The UVA Clubs program and the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy invite you to join Professor Christine Mahoney for a private conference call to discuss solutions through social entrepreneurship. Professor Mahoney, Professor of Public Policy and Politics, and Director of Social Entrepreneurship at UVA, will share her thoughts and will then answer live questions from the audience.

Moderated by Batten Professor David Leblang, Two Miller Center fellows from different parties, Mary Kate Cary and Chris Lu, explore the future of bipartisanship. Can the current health and economic crisis bring the two parties together, or is it just a temporary reprieve? And what are some ways that we can foster more bipartisanship in Washington?

Join the Miller Center for a discussion with Batten School professor Leora Friedberg as she and the Miller Center's Chris Lu discuss the current unemployment numbers, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, and the prospects for the labor market. The conversation will be moderated by Miller Center Director William Antholis.

In partnership with the UVA Center for Politics, Kyle Kondik (Managing Editor of the Crystal Ball) will moderate a panel of four experts on the topic of Voting in the Midst of a Pandemic, there will be time for questions from the audience.

How does one navigate the policy implications of a worldwide epidemic? And what does that look like? Join the Miller Center for a discussion with Batten School Dean Ian Solomon on the policy implications of the coronavirus epidemic. 

Join us via Zoom at 11:00 am on Wednesday, April 15, to hear from Batten Professor Bala Mulloth and Engineering Professor Gaurav Giri, Co-founders of Hava, Inc., in the fourth installment of the Batten School's expert chat series on the novel coronavirus.

For the millions of people already caught in disaster and conflict situations around the world, what does the emergence of a global pandemic mean? Batten's Professor Kirsten Gelsdorf will discuss the massive impact COVID-19 is having on the humanitarian needs of vulnerable communities—and why we and our national and global institutions must find ways to support them.

Any economic crisis can impact our physical and mental health. But what about when that crisis is caused by a global pandemic? Batten Professor Chris Ruhm will join us for the third installment of our expert chat series about the novel coronavirus. In a brief online lecture followed by a question and answer session, Ruhm will discuss how prior research on economic recessions and overall health might shed light on the path ahead, and where that research might lead us astray.

Rise Together, a nonprofit teen mentoring program and UVA CIO is looking for Batten students to serve as panelists and/or mentors to first-gen low-income Charlottesville High School (CHS) students on March 6. The CHS students are eager to learn about what college life is like and the types of support available in college. However, they are most interested in having fun with and getting to know college students!