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How Will AI Affect Democracy?

September 20, 2023
Baker Student Nolan Ragland speaking with Dean Wanamaker

Baker Students Gain Firsthand Experience in National Security Research

September 14, 2023
Panel of Nuclear Experts speak at the Baker School.

CETEP and Baker School Host a Panel of Experts to Discuss the Future of Nuclear Energy

September 14, 2023
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IAC Announces Constitution Day Events

September 13, 2023
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How Secure is Your Vote?

September 7, 2023
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UT’s New Baker School of Public Policy and Public Affairs Includes Country’s Top Experts

August 31, 2023
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TN Legislative Internship Program Applications Now Open

August 31, 2023

Baker School and CETEP Host Inaugural Southeast Energy Policy Forum

August 24, 2023

CATO: George Washington’s Valley Forge Play

August 16, 2023
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The Baker School Welcomes Students Back to Campus 

August 11, 2023
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Why Are There No More Walter Cronkites?

July 19, 2023
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Call for Applications for Baker School Experts

July 10, 2023
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Do We Need a Democracy Renovation?

July 5, 2023
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Are Term Limits a Good Idea?

June 21, 2023
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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

June 21, 2023
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Institute of American Civics to Host Inaugural TN Civics Academy June 21-22

June 20, 2023
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Do We Need a New Strategy to Address Disparities in Public Education?

June 7, 2023

UT Students in Japan with Baker Center

May 30, 2023
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What are the Best Ways to Address Crime?

May 24, 2023
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Baker Center Launches Season Two of You Might be Right Podcast with Former Governors Bredesen, Haslam

May 11, 2023

Institute of American Civics Sponsors Leadership Knoxville Luncheon Keynote Address with Michele Moody-Adams

May 10, 2023
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Josh Dunn Named First Executive Director of UT Baker Center’s Institute of American Civics

May 9, 2023
Krista Wiegand

GS Director Krista Wiegand Participates in Indo-Pacific Security Dialogues

April 26, 2023
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Baker Scholar Nolan Ragland named Undergraduate Researcher of the Year

April 24, 2023
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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

April 20, 2023
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Senior Research Associate Jill Welch Gives Talk on Women and Public Policy to Society of Women Engineers

April 20, 2023
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Brewton Brownlow Couch to Join the Baker Center as Chief of Staff

March 23, 2023

Recap: Are Carbon Markets Reshaping the US Electricity Industry

March 22, 2023
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Recap: U.S. Policy in the Indo-Pacific: Standing by Our Allies

March 13, 2023
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Institute of American Civics Executive Director Finalists Announced

March 6, 2023
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Board of Trustees Approves Baker School of Public Policy and Public Affairs

February 24, 2023
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Testing for Contaminated Well Water

February 23, 2023
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Recap: Energy Resilience in the Face of Climate Change

February 22, 2023
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Baker Center’s Global Security Program Launches New Japan Ambassador Program

January 24, 2023
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The Baker Center and Institute Welcome New Employees

January 20, 2023
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Spring Local Government Fellows Program

January 19, 2023
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Am I Using my Morals as a Weapon or a Gift?

December 20, 2022
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Recap: A Vision for Future Mobility in Tennessee

December 19, 2022

New Research Explains Why Information Spaces Are Rife With Misinformation

December 14, 2022
Jude Bayham Presenting

Recap: Economics and Epidemiology

December 13, 2022
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What is the Future of Global Trade?

November 22, 2022
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What is the Senate Filibuster and Why Should We Care?

November 15, 2022
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Recap: Analyzing and Addressing Gun Violence in Knoxville – Key People, Places and Strategies

November 3, 2022
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Recap: How China’s Rare Earth Monopoly is Reshaping the World

October 28, 2022
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Baker Center Partners with City of Knoxville on Student Fellows Program

October 28, 2022
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What Still Ails Us a Decade After the Affordable Care Act?

October 26, 2022

OCT 21 // Vols Making an Impact in International Development

October 6, 2022
Paul Ryan and Heidi Heitkamp

OCT 24 // Are Our Differences of Political Opinion Still Making Us Stronger?

October 6, 2022
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How Important is it to Address Our National Debt?

October 5, 2022
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UT’s Baker Center Launches Podcast with former Governors Bredesen and Haslam

September 12, 2022
Listen. Learn. Lead. Week at UTK

Listen. Learn. Lead Week’s Line – Up Announced

September 9, 2022
Phil Bredesen and Bill Haslam

Sept. 14// Leadership and Governance: Civility, Understanding and Statesmanship

September 9, 2022
Jeffrey Rosen

Sept 20 // Listen. Learn. Lead. Week: “The Right to Vote” with Jeffrey Rosen

September 9, 2022
Public Square Events

Sept 21 // Public Square Series: “Why Vote?” Panel Discussion with Local Leaders

September 9, 2022
Loretta Ross

CANCELLED Sept 23 // Listen. Learn. Lead. Week: “Calling In The Calling Out Culture” with Loretta Ross

September 9, 2022
Voter Tailgate

Sept. 24 // Listen. Learn. Lead. Week: “Voter and Civic Engagement” Tailgate

September 9, 2022
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Baker Center Hosts Second Event in its Constitutional Conversations Series

September 1, 2022
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Board of Fellows to the Institute of American Civics Announced

August 31, 2022
Voter Challenge

Tennessee vs. Florida Voter Challenge Begins

August 24, 2022
Vol is a Verb

Class of 2026 Takes “Vol is a Verb” Pledge

August 22, 2022
2022 Baker Center Washington Fellows

2022 Washington Fellows Program

June 30, 2022
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Land Grant Films to Produce “Howard Baker’s America” Documentary

May 22, 2022
Fly fishing around Tremont in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

New Report Card Will Grade Health of Tennessee Waterways

April 25, 2022
Global Security Lecture

Undesirable Immigrants – Why Racism Persists in International Migration with Andrew Rosenberg

April 13, 2022
Listen. Learn. Lead. Week at UTK

‘Listen. Learn. Lead.’ Week

March 21, 2022
Bioenergy

Producing Bioenergy with Benefits

March 10, 2022
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Global Security Presents: What to Know About the Russia-Ukraine Crisis

March 1, 2022
Giants of the Senate

Baker Center Co-Launches Giants of the Senate Lecture Series

February 21, 2022
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