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How Will AI Affect Democracy?
Baker Students Gain Firsthand Experience in National Security Research
CETEP and Baker School Host a Panel of Experts to Discuss the Future of Nuclear Energy
IAC Announces Constitution Day Events
How Secure is Your Vote?
UT’s New Baker School of Public Policy and Public Affairs Includes Country’s Top Experts
TN Legislative Internship Program Applications Now Open
Baker School and CETEP Host Inaugural Southeast Energy Policy Forum
CATO: George Washington’s Valley Forge Play
The Baker School Welcomes Students Back to Campus
Why Are There No More Walter Cronkites?
Call for Applications for Baker School Experts
Do We Need a Democracy Renovation?
Are Term Limits a Good Idea?
The Conversation: China and the US are locked in struggle – and the visit by Secretary of State Blinken is only a start to improving relations
Institute of American Civics to Host Inaugural TN Civics Academy June 21-22
Do We Need a New Strategy to Address Disparities in Public Education?
UT Students in Japan with Baker Center
What are the Best Ways to Address Crime?
Baker Center Launches Season Two of You Might be Right Podcast with Former Governors Bredesen, Haslam
Institute of American Civics Sponsors Leadership Knoxville Luncheon Keynote Address with Michele Moody-Adams
Josh Dunn Named First Executive Director of UT Baker Center’s Institute of American Civics
GS Director Krista Wiegand Participates in Indo-Pacific Security Dialogues
Baker Scholar Nolan Ragland named Undergraduate Researcher of the Year
The Conversation: The US is about to blow up a fake warship in the South China Sea – but naval rivalry with Beijing is very real and growing
Senior Research Associate Jill Welch Gives Talk on Women and Public Policy to Society of Women Engineers
Brewton Brownlow Couch to Join the Baker Center as Chief of Staff
Recap: Are Carbon Markets Reshaping the US Electricity Industry
Recap: U.S. Policy in the Indo-Pacific: Standing by Our Allies
Institute of American Civics Executive Director Finalists Announced
Board of Trustees Approves Baker School of Public Policy and Public Affairs
Testing for Contaminated Well Water
Recap: Energy Resilience in the Face of Climate Change
Baker Center’s Global Security Program Launches New Japan Ambassador Program
The Baker Center and Institute Welcome New Employees
Spring Local Government Fellows Program
Am I Using my Morals as a Weapon or a Gift?
Recap: A Vision for Future Mobility in Tennessee
New Research Explains Why Information Spaces Are Rife With Misinformation
Recap: Economics and Epidemiology
What is the Future of Global Trade?
What is the Senate Filibuster and Why Should We Care?
Recap: Analyzing and Addressing Gun Violence in Knoxville – Key People, Places and Strategies
Recap: How China’s Rare Earth Monopoly is Reshaping the World
Baker Center Partners with City of Knoxville on Student Fellows Program
What Still Ails Us a Decade After the Affordable Care Act?
OCT 21 // Vols Making an Impact in International Development
Learn how to build a meaningful career working for a global nonprofit from some Volunteers who came before you.
OCT 21, 2022 • 12:30 pm
Lindsay Young Auditorium
OCT 24 // Are Our Differences of Political Opinion Still Making Us Stronger?
Former House Speaker Paul Ryan and Heidi Heitkamp have a conversation about how our institutions and communities can navigate passionate disagreements.
OCT 24, 2022 • 6:00PM
Student Union Ballroom
How Important is it to Address Our National Debt?
EPISODE 4: The United States owes its debtors more than $30 trillion. To dig into how the U.S. got here and what’s at stake, the governors call on Paul Ryan, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, and Barry Eichengreen, George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.
UT’s Baker Center Launches Podcast with former Governors Bredesen and Haslam
UT’s Baker Center Launches Podcast with former Governors Bredesen and Haslam.
Listen. Learn. Lead Week’s Line – Up Announced
Listen. Learn. Lead Week’s Line-Up Announced!
Sept. 14// Leadership and Governance: Civility, Understanding and Statesmanship
Join the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy and the Bipartisan Policy Center for a candid conversation with former Govs. Phil Bredesen and Bill Haslam.
Sept. 14, 2022 • 11:45am
Bipartisan Policy Center
Sept 20 // Listen. Learn. Lead. Week: “The Right to Vote” with Jeffrey Rosen
“The Right to Vote” with Jeffrey Rosen.
Sept. 20, 2022 • 5:00pm
Toyota Auditorium
Sept 21 // Public Square Series: “Why Vote?” Panel Discussion with Local Leaders
“Why Vote?” Panel Discussion with Local Leaders as part of Public Square Series
Sept. 21, 2022 • 5:00pm
Toyota Auditorium
CANCELLED Sept 23 // Listen. Learn. Lead. Week: “Calling In The Calling Out Culture” with Loretta Ross
“Calling In The Calling Out Culture” with Loretta Ross
Sept. 23, 2022 • 5:00pm
Toyota Auditorium
Sept. 24 // Listen. Learn. Lead. Week: “Voter and Civic Engagement” Tailgate
“Voter and Civic Engagement” Tailgate
Sept. 24 • 11:00am
Baker Center Parking Lot
Baker Center Hosts Second Event in its Constitutional Conversations Series
Baker Center Hosts Second Event in its Constitutional Conversations Series
Board of Fellows to the Institute of American Civics Announced
Board of Fellows to the Institute of American Civics Announced.
Tennessee vs. Florida Voter Challenge Begins
TN vs. FL Voter Challenge Begins!
Class of 2026 Takes “Vol is a Verb” Pledge
Class of 2026 Takes “Vol is a Verb” Pledge
On Monday night, August 22, the Class of 2026 came together in Thompson-Boling Arena to take the “Vol is a Verb” pledge….
2022 Washington Fellows Program
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Land Grant Films to Produce “Howard Baker’s America” Documentary
New Report Card Will Grade Health of Tennessee Waterways
Part of the task of improving the water quality of urban waterways in Tennessee means establishing a tool to measure improvements and communicate them clearly to the public. John Schwartz, a professor in the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Tickle College of Engineering, is working with several municipal separate storm sewer systems—also known as MS4s—across Tennessee to establish a report card that will help the public and government officials better understand the quality of implementation of stormwater management programs.
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