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PLEASE NOTE TIME CHANGE to 5:30 pm!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This event also featured here Feb. 21 @5:30 pm – Balancing Civility and Free Expression THREE TENNESSEE GOVERNORS will discuss Civility and Free Expression on Feb. 21 at 5:30 pm in the Toyota Auditorium. “Balancing Civility & Free Expression . . . for effective governance” Join our distinguished panel [...]
Karen Seto, Assoc. Prof of Urban Environment, Yale University, presented a talk on Rethinking Urbanization & Sustainability : Lessons from China and India. Free and open to the public. Co-sponsored by TNSCORE. To view the webcast, click here: http://160.36.161.128/UTK/Viewer/?peid=917d65071aad465880356b899d871036
Douglas MacLean, Prof, Philosophy, Univ. of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, spoke on “Ethics and the Distribution of Risk.” Free and open to the public. Co-sponsored by TNSCORE and the Dept. of Philosophy. To view the webcast, click here: http://160.36.161.128/UTK/Viewer/?peid=915352a7806b4241926d168a43efbcfa
Several Baker Scholars, UT Honors and other students attended President Obama’s inauguration on Jan. 21. Like any enterprising students on a budget, they piled onto the MEGAbus and found lodging for 11 with a UT and Baker Center alum in her tiny Washington, DC apartment. They boarded the Metro at 4 am and headed to [...]
The Baker Center Connection! Attention all UT students! If you are interested in public service, policy, politics, government, law or current issues, stop by our showcase of clubs on January 31, 5:30-7 pm in the Toyota Auditorium. We will have representatives of each of these groups to tell you what they do and how [...]
Around 40 people came out on a dreary Jan. 16 evening to learn more about our US presidents. Dr. Mike Martinez discussed the exhibit, giving background stories on the photos and some of the photographers. Dr. Martinez is a new professor in Journalism and Electronic Media, but prior to that he was a photojournalist for [...]
During an interview with George Stephanopoulos and Diane Sawyer and their inauguration coverage, Colin Powell called for change in the GOP and noted the need for more “Howard Bakers.” …Powell said, “I grew up under Ronald Reagan and Cap Weinberger and George Schultz and George Herbert Walker Bush — that’s the Republican party I know [...]
On Saturday, January 19, 2013, Baker Ambassador, Alexandra Chiasson, will lead a group of Baker Scholars and Professor Bob Kronick in a discussion of: Servant Leadership and the Knoxville Community: The Impact of Student Leaders Other members of the panel are Eric Dixon, Lisa Dicker and Sarah Lucas. They will speak at 10 – 10:45 am [...]
The Baker Center is proud to host an exhibit on The American President, provided by the Associated Press. The exhibit will be up in the Rotunda from Jan. 9-25, 2013 (8 am – 5 pm) and is free and open to the public. Dr. Mike Martinez, a 26 year veteran photojournalist and currently an assistant [...]
Former Kansas Senator Nancy Kassebaum (Baker), is interviewed in the Knoxville News Sentinel about the increase in the number of women in Congress. See the full article here: http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2013/jan/07/kassebaum-baker-record-number-of-women-in/