February 8
Ambassadorial Lecture Series Featuring:
Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr.
“The Negotiation of the New START Treaty”
11:30A.M.-1:00P.M.
Toyota Auditorium

Lunch is $15 payable by cash or check on the day of the event.
Reservations are Required. 
Register on-line by February 3 by http://tinyurl.com/4u4jq2r
For more information call 974-0931
The event will also be webcast http://tinyurl.com/4z5c9yf

Ambassador Graham will discuss the New START treaty, which began in the 
Spring of 2009 following the Summit meeting between Presidents Obama and 
Medvedev. The new Treaty was negotiated to replace the START I treaty 
which was expiring by its terms on December 5th, 2009. Taking nearly a year to 
complete, it was signed by Presidents Obama and Medvedev in April, submitted 
to the Senate in June and after a highly contentious passage through the 
Senate was passed by the Senate on December 22nd, 2010 by a vote of 71-
25. 

Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr. is the Executive Chairman of the Board of 
Lightbridge Corporation, a company which holds patents on a new type of 
nuclear power fuel based on thorium and which is located in McLean, Virginia.  
Lightbridge Corporation is a U.S. company listed on the NASDAQ, which has 
conducted its research and development work at the Kurchatov Institute in 
Moscow.

Graham is internationally known as one of the leading authorities in the field of 
international arms control and non-proliferation agreements designed to limit 
and to combat the proliferation of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons. 
He served as a senior U.S. diplomat involved in the negotiation of every major 
international arms control and non-proliferation agreement in which the United 
States was involved during the period 1970-1997 including The Strategic Arms 
Limitations Talks (the Interim Agreement on Strategic Offensive Arms, the Anti 
Ballistic Missile Treaty and the SALT II Treaty), The Strategic Arms Reduction 
Talks (the START I Treaty and the START II Treaty), the Intermediate Range 
Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty extension 
(NPT), the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty, and Comprehensive 
Test Ban Treaty.

February 17
Book Discussion: The Science of Liberty: Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of 
Nature by Timothy Ferris 
6:30-8:00P.M.
Toyota Auditorium

Discussion will be led by Dr. Bruce Tonn, Professor of Political Science and Dr. 
Tom Handler, Professor of Physics.  For more information about the book visit: 
http://www.amazon.com/Science-Liberty-Democracy-
ReasonNature/dp/0060781505 

February 24
Timothy Ferris, Professor and Science Writer
The Science of Liberty: How Science Enabled the Rise of Democracy
7:00P.M.
Toyota Auditorium
The event will also be webcast http://tinyurl.com/5rpm575

Dr. Ferris will talk about his book, The Science of Liberty.  Part of the 
discussion will focus on how science is communicated and the impact on public 
policy.  

Called "the best popular science writer in the English language" by The Christian 
Science Monitor and "the best science writer of his generation" by The 
Washington Post, Ferris has received the American Institute of Physics prize 
and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and his works have been nominated for the 
National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.  A Fellow of the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science, Professor Ferris has taught in five 
disciplines – astronomy, English, history, journalism, and philosophy – at four 
universities. He is currently an emeritus professor at the University of California, 
Berkeley.

Ferris is the author of a dozen books, among them Seeing in the Dark, The 
Whole Shebang, and Coming of Age in the Milky Way, which was translated into 
fifteen languages and named by The New York Times as among the leading 
books published in the twentieth century. A former newspaper reporter and 
editor of Rolling Stone magazine, he has written over two hundred articles and 
essays for publications such as The New Yorker, National Geographic, The New 
York Review of Books, Forbes, Harper's, Life, Nature, Time, Newsweek, Readers' 
Digest, Scientific American, The Nation, The New Republic, and The New York 
Times.

February 28
What the Proposed Changes in the Health Care Legislation Mean to Employers
Cathy Shuck, Senior Associate with Wimberly Lawson Wright Daves and Jones, 
PLLC.
4:00-5:30 p.m.
Toyota Auditorium
The event will also be webcast http://tinyurl.com/4dzqvem
Cathy Shuck, Senior Associate with Wimberly Lawson Wright Daves and Jones, 
PLLC.

Shuck advises employers on various aspects of employment law.  She 
previously served as a law clerk to Justice E. Riley Anderson of the Tennessee 
Supreme Court and to Judge William A. Fletcher of the US Court of Appeals for 
the Ninth Circuit.  Ms. Shuck received her B.A. from Northwestern University 
and her J.D. from Boalt Hall at the University of California, Berkeley where she 
was a member of the Order of the Coif.  Prior to attending law school, Ms. 
Shuck worked as a human resources manager and a policy researcher for the 
California Medical Association.  

For more information about these and other upcoming programs, visit our 
website www.bakercenter.utk.edu

Amy K. Gibson, Ph.D.
Director of Communications and Public Programming
Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
865-974-3816 (o)
865-363-9605 (m)