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On Monday, April 7, join Foreign Policy magazine’s award-winning podcast director, Rob Sachs, to explore expert strategies for creating and sustaining a successful podcast in today’s competitive market. 🔗 REGISTER: events.batten.virginia.edu/Batten-Hour-Ho…

🎟 TONIGHT! Join us for a screening of Just Mercy, an adaption of the book by Bryan Stevenson, who will arrive on Grounds next week to be recognized as the 2025 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medalist in Citizen Leadership. Pizza will be provided. 🍕 events.batten.virginia.edu/2025-Founders-…

💡At Monday’s Batten Hour, president and CEO of Mathematica Paul Decker shared his perspective on “the Data Science Age,” a new era of policymaking driven by the unprecedented availability of data and by artificial intelligence. Read more here: batten.virginia.edu/about/news/nex…

APRIL 10: Join UVA Batten Dean Ian H. Solomon for a special conversation with Bryan Stevenson, who will arrive on Grounds next week to be recognized as the 2025 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medalist in Citizen Leadership. REGISTER at the link below: events.batten.virginia.edu/Bryan-Stevenso…

📢 TOMORROW! 📢 Don't miss out on insights from Rob Sachs, Foreign Policy magazine’s award-winning podcast director. REGISTER here: events.batten.virginia.edu/Batten-Hour-Ho… ⏰️ 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. 📍 Great Hall

UVA Batten professor Abigail Scholer has been named a recipient of the competitive spring 2025 TYDE seed grant, which is part of the University’s Grand Challenges research investment initiative. tyde.virginia.edu/spring-2025-se…

Students in associate professor Noah Myung's Technology Policy class recently got an exclusive look inside Micron, where they witnessed the cutting-edge process of semiconductor chip production! 🖥️ Students discussed the future of AI and global supply chain challenges. 🛠️

UVA Batten assistant professor Derek Wu has been awarded a Russell Sage Foundation Pipeline Grant to research interactional outcomes of social safety net programs. batten.virginia.edu/about/news/wu-…

The Center for Effective Lawmaking recently released their Top Ten Lists on their website. Today, we're highlighting The Top Ten SENATE Republicans and Democrats in the 118th Congress, based on their legislative effectiveness scores (LES). 🔗 thelawmakers.org Senate Republicans Senate Democrats

At yesterday’s Batten Hour, students heard from Rob Sachs, vice president of audio at Foreign Policy magazine and creator of award-winning FP Studios. Sachs advised students to ask themselves: “What can you do better than anybody else can do? What is your unfair advantage?”

Check out UVA Today’s coverage of the new report from the Center for Effective Lawmaking, a joint project of UVA Batten and Vanderbilt University. news.virginia.edu/content/congre…

Today at UVA Batten, we were honored to welcome Bryan Stevenson—renowned public interest lawyer, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, and the 2025 recipient of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Citizen Leadership.

At this week’s Batten Hour, climate journalist Chris Mooney discussed the intersection of data and narrative to tell stories that change the direction of policy. Mooney is a professor of practice and a practitioner fellow at UVA Environmental Institute, which co-sponsored the event.

The latest report from Center for Effective Lawmaking highlights members of Congress who have shown long-standing patterns of exceeding expectations. Only about 25% of lawmakers reach this level in any given Congress - those who do so consistently are worth watching. 🔗 thelawmakers.org/wp-content/upl…

🏛 Freshman members of Congress who exceed expectations in their first terms can indicate future legislative leaders. The recent report from Center for Effective Lawmaking spotlights such lawmakers in the 118th Congress, plus several other top ten lists. Learn more here: thelawmakers.org/legislative-ef…

UVA Batten associate professor Alex Bick served as moderator for a panel discussion at the Miller Center’s 2025 William and Carol Stevenson Conference titled “The Future of American Financial and Economic Statecraft.” Read more here: batten.virginia.edu/about/news/bic…

Two UVA Batten Tadler Fellows, Dylan Craig and Kalista Pepper, helped Buchanan County, Virginia secure $600,000 total in funding from the Virginia Coalfield Economic Development Authority (VCEDA). Read VCEDA’s announcement here: vceda.us/vceda-approves…

Health is one of the largest and fastest-growing sectors of the U.S. economy — and also one with abundant market failures. At UVA Batten, it's a core area of research. batten.virginia.edu/about/news/uva…

UVA Batten professor Eileen Chou has been published in Organizational Psychology Review for her co-authored article, which sheds light on the conditions that shape trust in brokers and explains how trust drives their success in fostering organizational collaboration.

On the latest episode of Grounds to Listen, Tim Tassopoulos joins UVA Batten Dean Ian Solomon to talk about his journey from part-time Chick-fil-A employee to president and chief operating officer of the iconic chicken sandwich chain. Available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.