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 [...]
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Baker Center Announces New Baker Scholars and Director of Undergraduate Programs Earlier this fall, eight undergraduate students were selected as new Baker Scholars. These students will complete a policy-oriented project, either a research thesis or creative initiative, under the supervision of a faculty member. Click here for a list of these students along with information [...]
The Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy (http://bakercenter.utk.edu/) in association with the Department of Economics, at the University of Tennessee, (http://econ.bus.utk.edu/) will host a workshop on the Identification of Causal Effects in Environmental and Energy Economics on Monday and Tuesday, July 15-16, 2013, in Knoxville, Tennessee. The purpose of the workshop is to [...]
Baker Center Fellow and assistant professor of Economics, Jacob LaRiviere, recently co-authored an article on fuel price increases in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. His co-author was Melanie Cozad, Furman University, and the entire article can be viewed here: LaRiviere Cozad JEEM LaRiviere and Cozad, provided this introduction to their research: In order to develop [...]
Sen. George Mitchell, former Democratic Majority Leader from Maine, spoke to more than 250 at the Inaugural Baker Distinguished Lecture on Nov. 13, 2012 on the UT campus. Sen. Mitchell praised Sen. Howard Baker for his leadership and legislative skills. He also praised Sen. Nancy Kassebaum (Baker) and noted the need for such legislators today. [...]
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., [...]
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 [...]
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:
During the last two weeks, a total of 551 voter forms were submitted by students and mailed in by the Baker Center! Of the 551, 58 submitted via TurboVote, an online service paid for by the Center. Over 20 counties were represented: Knox County – 448 Hamblen-1 Montgomery-1 Washington-1 Blount-7 Franklin-1 Scott-1 Haywood-1 Davidson-7 McMinn-1 [...]