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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)