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Batten’s Super Tuesday Panelists Discuss Democratic Primaries in Virginia and BeyondHosted by the Batten School and Center for Politics, the panel featured Heather Caygle, a POLITICO Congress reporter; Jocelyn Kiley, the associate director of research at Pew Research Center; Rohini Kosoglu, a senior advisor to Senator Kamala Harris; Tara Setmayer, a CNN Political Commentator and ABC News Political Contributor; and Mara Suttman-Lea, a professor at Connecticut College.
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The Problem with Health Care Price Transparency: We Don’t Have Cost TransparencyIt's not the price of health care that should concern us. It's the cost. There's a distinction, and it matters. Batten's Michael Williams explains why.
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Two Batten Professors of Practice Focus on Raising Children in Refugee CampsBatten School professors Kirsten Gelsdorf and Lucy Bassett create international collaborations to help solve problems of crisis and conflict.
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Student StoriesBatten Student Group is Making the School a More Diverse and Inclusive PlaceThrough their organization, Black Student Leaders in Policy, James Banks (BA ’20) and Sela Carrington (BA ’21) are working to give black Batten students a sense of ownership.
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Paul Ryan Recounts His Days on Capitol Hill, Talks Current Events in Dome RoomThe former Speaker of the House joined the Batten School and Center for Politics to discuss the 2020 election, impeachment, Congress and more.
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Q&A: Bruce Springsteen Spotlights Batten Professor’s Work at the BorderBatten's Lucy Bassett and the Charlottesville-based nonprofit Project Adelante are conducting research at the Matamoros refugee camp near the Texas border – a spot that is featured in one of Springsteen’s songs.
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Why So Many Young People Don’t Vote – And How to Change ThatIn their new book, "Making Young Voters: Converting Civic Attitudes into Civic Action," Batten’s John Holbein and Duke University's Sunshine Hillygus explore why the United States has one of the lowest youth voter turnout rates in the world and how to address the problem.
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Batten’s Bala Mulloth Awarded $100,000 to Empower Students to Solve Global Problems in Air PollutionBatten Professor Bala Mulloth and UVA Engineering Professor Gaurav Giri have been awarded $100,000 for their work to mobilize students to learn about and help address the global air pollution crisis.
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Learning from HistoryOn Andy McLeod’s Historic Matters podcast, Batten professor Gerry Warburg explores how lessons from the past can inspire the best policymaking for what’s to come.
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Simulation Learning Takes Students Out of the Classroom and Into the Middle of Public CrisesEvery year, hundreds of master’s candidates from member institutions of NASPAA — the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration — participate in the NASPAA-Batten Student Simulation Competition, co-hosted by Batten's Center for Leadership Simulation and Gaming, to see who can devise the best solutions to international crises.
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Alum in ActionAlum in Action: Kathryn BabineauBatten alum Kathryn Babineau (MPP ’13) is a Ph.D. student in the University of Virginia's sociology department, where she studies globalization, labor rights, and public and private regulation. Previously, she worked as a human rights investigator for the Fair Food Standards Council and as a research coordinator at National Defense University.
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Experts Discuss the Challenges Facing Democracy Globally'Democracies in Crisis' panel, co-hosted by the Batten School and Center for Politics, brought together expert and public perspectives on democracy today.