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Excellent turnout and great Ashe Lecture this past Monday. This evening we are supporting NAVY WEEK... plus Thursday - E&E Forum...and documentary film on Saturday night. See below for details and don't forget next week's Howard Baker Memorial Lecture with NEDO Chairman Kazuo Furukawa. Wed., April 13, 5:30 pm, US Navy "Being There Matters! Navy Medicine Keeping Sailors and Marines Healthy, Ready and On the Job" - Rear Admiral Terry Moulton, Deputy Surgeon General and Deputy Chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery for the US Navy. Thursday, April 14, 12:30 – 2 pm - "Sustainable Urban Water and the Rise of Green Infrastructure" E&E Forum with Dr. Jon Hathaway, UT Civil & Environmental Engineering - PLEASE NOTE EARLIER START TIME! Saturday, April 16, 7-9:30 pm - "Journey into Europe" - A documentary film by Akbar Ahmed, Muslim scholar and former diplomat. Courtesy of the Southeast Regional Middle East & Islamic Studies Seminar (SERMEISS) and Baker Center Global Security program. Free and open to the public. Tuesday, April 19, 12:45-1:45 pm - join us for coffee in the Baker Cafe "Is there an Environmental Crisis?" Dr. Michael McKinney, Earth & Planetary Sciences professor and director of the Environmental Studies Program. BC READING ROOM Tuesday, April 19, 4:00 PM -- Howard Baker Memorial Lecture - "Realizing a Hydrogen Society in Japan" Chairman Kazuo Furukawa, NEDO (New Energy & Industrial Technology Development Organization), one of the largest public research and global environmental programs in the Japan. NEDO has around 800 employees worldwide, a budget of $1.2 billion, and offices worldwide, including in Washington, DC and Silicon Valley, California. Thursday, April 21, 2016, 1-2:30 pm, E&E Forum with Dr. Virginia H. Dale, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She is a Fellow and Director of the Center for BioEnergy Sustainability and will discuss sustainable bioenergy. Friday, April 22 - EARTH DAY - Baker Ambassadors are planning a panel - more details to come! Sunday, APRIL 24, 1:30 pm - HOWARD BAKER PUBLIC POLICY CHALLENGE FINALS! Watch teams compete with their solutions to local and national policy issues and win CASH prizes! All in the Toyota Auditorium and are free and open to the public!