UT’s Baker Center, Nexstar to Host Final Senatorial Debate
UT’s Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy will host the second and final debate in the Senate race between Representative Marsha Blackburn and former governor Phil Bredesen at…
Student Groups, Academic Units Launch #VolsVote Campaign
…Baker Center 10th anniversary celebration, “Broken: Can the Senate Save Itself and the Country?” with Ambassador Ira Shapiro, 5 p.m. in the Baker Center’s Toyota Auditorium. Nov. 6: Election Day….
Social Work Professor to Evaluate California Guaranteed Income Project
…Amy Castro Baker, an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania, will spend about two years evaluating the project, dubbed the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration (SEED). Stockton, California, is a…
Akins Cited by Newsweek in Article about Chinese Investment in Pakistan
…Pakistani port. The article quotes Harrison Akins, a researcher at the Howard Baker Center who focuses on Pakistan and China. Akins said, “Chinese investment in Pakistan is expected to reach…
UT Community Has Connections with Barbara Bush
…Dirksen Baker, and Lady Bird Johnson at the Senate Wives’ Luncheon, 1981. Photo courtesy of the Howard Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy. The Howard Baker Papers is a repository…
Baker Center to Host Statewide Summit on Voter Education
Tennessee ranks 40th in the country in voter registration and last in voter turnout. From 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Friday, April 20, UT’s Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for…
Baker Center Announces New Board Members, Washington Program
…new board members and new programming with remarks from Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, left, UT Chancellor Beverly Davenport, and Baker Center Director Matt Murray, center. “Senator Baker was so…
Baker Center Launches Washington Program
UT’s Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy is launching the Washington Program, a two-week intensive course in Washington, DC, this May. Students will meet some of the nation’s…
Baker Center Announces Spring Lectures and Events
UT’s Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy has released its schedule for lectures and events this spring: February 7—Akbar Ahmed, Ashe Lecture Series, 5–6 p.m., Toyota Auditorium. “Being…
UT and WVU Release Research on Coal Demand in Appalachia
…the Boyd Center for Business and Economic Research in the Haslam College of Business, the Center for Transportation Research in the Tickle College of Engineering, and the Howard H. Baker…
Student Entrepreneur Advances in National Pitch Competition
…startups from universities nationwide. Baker Donahue Baker Donahue of Franklin, Tennessee, a senior communication studies major and entrepreneurship minor, founded the company. SSM is the only nationwide collegiate tournament focused…
Law Student Perseveres through Hardship to Complete Degree
…suffered a debilitating injury in a traffic accident, influenced him and classmate Jessica Baker to create a handbook for individuals confronting the Social Security disability system. Professor Becky Jacobs oversaw…