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Sen. Mitchell – Tuesday @ 2-3 pm COX Auditorium – pkg. at Vol Hall Garage

Be part of the First Baker Distinguished Lecture Series featuring Sen. George Mitchell – Click here to see map and directions  for parking and walking to Cox Auditorium - Parking & Cox  Please spread the work and see you Tuesday!

Politics, Incivility, and the Media: The need to restore dialogue and debate – 10.23.12 – up on Youtube!

You can view the webcast of this event here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vGrEINo7uI Join us as we look back and forward at Congress, politics, and the impact of the media, with a distinguished panel collectively holding more than 100 years of expertise in these areas. From partisanship in Washington and a shift from mainstream media to to more [...]

Cool “Vote” Signs Designed by Media Arts Students – Posted around Campus by the BC!

Visit this link to learn and see more of these great signs around campus!   http://www.utk.edu/tntoday/2012/11/02/big-idea-posters-get-out-the-vote/  

Director, Matt Murray, Interviewed about the CBER Economic Forecast

Listen to this interview with Baker Center Director and CBER Assistant Director, Matt Murray, about the recently released Tennessee Economic Outlook   http://sunsite.utk.edu/wuot/mt/podcast/20121101MurrayWEB.mp3

Inaugural Baker Distinguished Lecture – Sen. George Mitchell

Sen. George Mitchell to Deliver First Baker Distinguished Lecture on Nov. 13 KNOXVILLE— Sen. George Mitchell, a long-time statesman and attorney, will be at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, on Tuesday, November 13, to deliver the inaugural Baker Distinguished Lecture. This new program was established to promote the values of Senator Howard H. Baker, Jr., [...]

At the Center – Fall 2012 Newsletter

Learn more about the activities of the Baker Center in our fall 2012 newsletter – At the Center! 3321 BakerCtrNewsFall122

Energy and the Environment Forum: Excessive Regulation or Market Failure: Deconstructing the “War On Coal”

Pat McGinley, Professor of Law at West Virginia University, spoke Thursday, October 25, as a part of the Baker Forum on Energy and the Environment. His lecture, Excessive Regulation or Market Failure: Deconstructing the “War On Coal”, can be watched here. This event was sponsored by Tennessee Solar Conversion and Storage using Outreach, Research, and [...]

Energy and Environment Forum: Food, Energy, and the Environment

David Tilman spoke on October 18 as a part of the Baker Forum on Energy and the Environment. A web cast of his lecture titled Food, Energy, and the Environment: Can We Feed and Power the World and Save the Earth? can be seen here. This event was sponsored by Tennessee Solar Conversion and Storage [...]

Energy and Environment Forum: Natural Resource Scarity and the Closed-Loop Supply Chain

On Thursday, October 04, Diane Mollenkopf, a specialist in supply chain management, and John Bell, a natural resource scarcity specialist, spoke as a part of the the Baker Forum on Energy and the Environment. The lecture focused on how many businesses are failing to adapt to the dwindling supply of natural resources, and the importance [...]

Baker Fellow featured on UT’s ‘What’s Your Big Idea?’

Howard Hall, one of our fellows in Global Security Policy, was recently featured on UT’s segment “What’s Your Big Idea?”. Watch the video here: