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Join us on April 3 (following Sec. Duncan’s lecture at the University Center Auditorium) at 2:30 pm in the Toyota Auditorium, along with our distinguished panel of local and state educators and reformers to discuss education in Tennessee. Randy Boyd, CEO of PetSafe and Gov.’s advisor on Higher Ed Jennifer Evans, Chamber of Commerce Anthony [...]
US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will be on campus on Wednesday, April 3, 2013 to deliver the second Baker Distinguished Lecture. You may make a reservation and we will hold your seat until 12:50 pm. To make a reservation, click here BDLS reservation form Free and open to the public, the lecture—sponsored by the [...]
Applications for the 2013 Baker Center Living & Learning Community are now available. If you or someone you know is coming to UT next fall and has a passion for government, politics or public service, please check out our learning community. A complete application with all information is available here 2013 BCLLC Application Admitted Freshman [...]
If you are or know of an incoming UTK freshman, who is interested in politics, government, or public service, tell them to check out our living and learning community here BCLLC Information If interested, he or she should follow the directions to apply for UT Housing and then complete the Baker Center application here. BCLC-Application-2013 Final [...]
White Paper 2-13 issued on March 5, 2013, provides a report on the Fall 2012 conference Base-load Electricity from Natural Gas and Nuclear Power: The Role of Federal and State Policy. white paper Sept 20-21 symposiumFINAL
The Roosevelt Institute, a student organization sponsored by the Baker Center, will host the 2013 UT Government By & For Conference on April 5, 9 am – 7:45 pm, in the Toyota Auditorium. UT Roosevelt founder, Julia Ross, and Baker Scholar, Eric Dixon, said the conference is intended to spark dialogue about the purpose [...]
April 10-11 in Chattanooga, TN – TN Solar Summit: Moving the Region’s Solar Power Forward – sponsored by SunShot. The TN Solar Summit will provide attendees with a retrospective and future look into the status of solar power within the region. We are expecting a packed conference, containing regional stakeholders including real property professionals, installers, appraisers, [...]
The accolades for the February 21 event featuring three Tennessee governors continue to pour in. We are extremely grateful to Governors Haslam, Bredesen and Sundquist, along with moderator, Bill Haltom and the Tennessee Bar Association for sharing this program with us. Soon, we will post a link so you can watch the program and see [...]
Baker Center Senior Fellow and ORNL Corporate Fellow, David Greene, and co-authors, Roderick Lee (George Washington University) and Janet Hopson (UT Dept. Earth and Planetary Sciences), provide this review of US oil dependence and its impact on the US Economy from 1970-2010. To read and download the complete paper, click on the following link. OilDependenceCosts2010 [...]
THE HOWARD H. BAKER JR. CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY COMPLETES TWO YEAR INTERNATIONAL DIALOGUE AND STUDY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY The Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy, the European Commission, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars organized the U.S-.E.U. Summit on Science, Technology, Innovation, and [...]