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Quelle surprise! Work requirements in social safety programs reduce participation, as opposed to help the recipients.

Temi Akinola Akinola of Charlottesville, a 2020 global security and justice and French language and literature graduate, is an English teaching assistant in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. “I am particularly interested in education and its formation on peace-building and human rights,” she said. “I will be teaching English at an all-girls high school, completing tutoring college prep programs through the U.S Embassy and working with the National Council for Human Rights in [Ivory Coast].” She was...

Temi Akinola Akinola of Charlottesville, a 2020 global security and justice and French language and literature graduate, is an English teaching assistant in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. “I am particularly interested in education and its formation on peace-building and human rights,” she said. “I will be teaching English at an all-girls high school, completing tutoring college prep programs through the U.S Embassy and working with the National Council for Human Rights in [Ivory Coast].” She was...

ARTICLE DATEARTICLE AUTHOR AUTHOR EMAIL April 06, 2021 The University of Tulsa has selected Brad Carson, a professor of public policy at the University of Virginia’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, as its next president. Carson, who has taught courses related to national security and public sector innovation at Batten since 2018, will conclude his time with the school at the end of the 2020-21 academic year. “The University of Tulsa has made a terrific selecti...

ARTICLE DATEARTICLE AUTHOR AUTHOR EMAIL March 08, 2021 Last year, Alex Pinckney found herself struggling to pick a graduate school. The pandemic wasn’t helping matters. “I felt very overwhelmed, trying to make this decision without the ability to visit the schools I was considering,” Pinckney said. Then she got an email from Dan Player, a professor at the University of Virginia’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy – one of the schools that had offered her ad...

5 Questions with Paul Nolde, Fund Manager/Managing Director, Riverflow Growth Fund “5 Questions With…” is a weekly BioBuzz series where we reach out to interesting people in the BioHealth Capital Region to share a little about themselves, their work, and maybe something completely unrelated. This edition features 5 Questions with Paul Nolde, Fund Manager/Managing Director, Riverflow Growth Fund. Paul Nolde has close to two decades of experience in the banking, finance, and venture capita...

Jefferson Trust to award nearly $1M in grants Grants_WVIR By Daniel Grimes | February 9, 2021 at 4:13 PM EST - Updated February 9 at 6:18 PM CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - The Jefferson Trust, a nonprofit that is part of the University of Virginia Alumni Association, is giving nearly $1 million in grants this year that will benefit UVA and the greater-Charlottesville area. The Jefferson Trust has already given over $9.6 million in grants since it started in 2005. Now, 15 programs that range...

ARTICLE DATEARTICLE AUTHOR AUTHOR EMAIL January 08, 2021 Jacob Shapero, a cadet lieutenant in the University of Virginia’s Army ROTC program, says that every day, he wants to “add a little value” to a team, whether it be the Army, an economics class, or a comedy club. The Navy Federal Credit Union has selected Shapero, who graduated as an economics major in May and is currently a second-year graduate student at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, as one of f...