Bob Graham Center for Public Service

3 Days Left to Vote Early
2022-11-03 09:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York)

2 Days Left to Vote Early
2022-11-04 09:00 - 18:00

Last Day to Vote Early
2022-11-05 09:00 - 18:00

Election Hero Day Lunch with Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons
2022-11-07 12:00 - 13:00 | O’Neill Reading Room, 2nd floor, Pugh Hall
To mark UF’s observance of Election Hero Day, students are cordially invited to a lunchtime conversation with humanitarian and voting rights activist Dr. Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons on Monday, November 7 at noon in the O’Neill Reading Room (2nd floor, Pugh Hall).
Dr. Simmons will discuss her experiences as a college student who was active with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and her work in voter registration and desegregation activities during the height of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
She is now a retired UF professor of religion and women’s studies. She received her bachelor’s from Antioch University in human services and her master’s and Ph.D. in religion with a specific focus on Islam from Temple University.
Dr. Simmons has a long history in the area of civil rights, human rights and peace work. For 23 years she worked at the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker peace, justice, human rights and international development organization headquartered in Philadelphia. During her early adult years as a college student and thereafter, she was active with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and spent seven years working full time on voter registration and desegregation activities in Mississippi, Georgia, and Alabama during the height of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
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Election Day
2022-11-08 07:00 - 19:00
Polling places are open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on November 8, 2022. Voters must vote in the polling place to which they are assigned. Check your local supervisor of elections webpage for additional information.
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Election Night Watch Party
2022-11-08 17:30 - 20:30 | Pugh Hall Ocora, 296 Buckman Dr, Gainesville, Florida, 32611, United States
It’s time to count the votes!
Join us for an election night watch party on Tuesday, Nov. 8, beginning at 5:30 pm in the Pugh Hall Ocora.
We will host political scientist Dr. James Fahey for an election forecasting Q&A, watch the returns, and sample Palm & Pine’s famous ice cream bar. We will end the night with a moderated discussion with Dr. Amy Martinelli on using civil discourse techniques to talk about the election.
This event is free and open to the public.
This event is presented by the Bob Graham Center for Public Service, the Bob Graham Center Student Fellows, Gators Vote 2022 and the Hispanic Student Association Office of Political Affairs.

The European Union After the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
2022-11-15 15:00 - 15:50 | O’Neill Reading Rm, 2nd Floor, Pugh Hall
Andreas Siegel, a career diplomat with Germany’s Consulate General in Miami, delivered a lecture and Q&A on the evolving role of the European Union after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The talk is free and open to the public.
Siegel is a career diplomat with a broad range of international experience in strategic, political, economic and cultural affairs. He holds both a (postgraduate) diploma of the College of Europe, Bruges/Belgium and a Master’s degree of French, English and American literature/linguistics of the University of Freiburg/ Germany.
For more information, contact Will Hasty, professor of German in the UF Department of Languages, Literature and Culture.
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Why We Love Where We Live
2022-11-16 12:00 - 13:00 | O’Neill Reading Room, 2nd floor, Pugh Hall
We all have relationships with the places we call home. As sea levels rise, temperatures increase, and the ranges of native plants and animals shift, Florida’s environment is changing and our relationships with those places must change, too.
As part of the Bob Graham Center’s doctoral dissertation fellows program, we are pleased to present Why We Love Where We Live: Climate Change and Sense of Place.
This luncheon panel was co-hosted with The Marjorie. The purpose of the panel was to connect research on the sense of place theory with stories from individuals who are working to reimagine how Floridians and people everywhere can come to terms with the constantly changing futures of the places they love.
A recording of this event can be viewed on the BGC YouTube channel.
Panelists:

Hannah Brown
Hannah Brown is a journalist, science communicator, and social scientist. She is a co-founder and editorial director of The Marjorie, an independent reporting nonprofit that covers environmental and social justice stories in Florida. She also serves as the communications and engagement specialist for the NOAA RESTORE Science Program. She has worked as a journalist since 2010, previously serving as a staff reporter for the Gainesville Sun and Lake City Reporter.

Pilar Morales
Pilar Morales Giner is a 2022 Bob Graham Center dissertation completion fellow, and recently graduate from UF with a Ph.D. in sociology. Her research explores the ways in which communities and stakeholders are affected by and respond to environmental change. Her dissertation focuses on a set of contextual factors that can explain local differences in responses toward climate change. She is also currently involved in a range of collaborative academic projects. She coordinates a working group at UF (Assessing Environmental Governance in the Amazon, AEGA) that aims to integrate the social, economic, and geographical aspects of environmental governance. In addition, together with a group of inter-disciplinary scholars, they published an article that explores applied research in conservation criminology.

N’Kwanda Jah
N’Kwanda Jah is a co-founder of the Cultural Arts Coalition in Gainesville, which was established as a nonprofit in 1983. She has created and implemented a community arts festival, cultural, social and academic programs for youth, developed an award winning musical video on recycling and worked with numerous community organizations throughout Alachua County. She is also a contributor for The Marjorie. Read her essay at this link.

Jesse Wilson
Jesse Wilson is the Youth Gardens Program Coordinator at Working Food, a nonprofit that cultivates local food resiliency in Gainesville, Florida. She also makes Florida-inspired linocuts as Watkahootee Print. Her life revolves around a large vegetable garden and a flock of free-range hens that she lovingly tends with her husband, her son, and two dogs on their rural north Florida property. She is also a contributor for The Marjorie. Read her essay at this link.

Iranian Uprising and the Nuclear Threat
2022-11-17 18:00 - 19:00 | Pugh Hall Ocora, 296 Buckman Dr, Gainesville, Florida, 32611, United States
The unprecedented protests now occurring across Iran have reignited international concerns about the looming danger of Iran’s nuclear program.
Dr. Matthias Küntzel
The public is invited to The Iranian Uprising and the Nuclear Threat: How Should the West Respond?, a presentation by German political scientist and historian Dr. Matthias Küntzel on Thursday, Nov. 17, at 6 pm in the Pugh Hall Ocora.
Dr. Küntzel will address the history of Iran’s relationship with the West, and explain why measures by the international community to avert Iran’s nuclear threat have failed. He will also speak about the recent uprising by Iranian women, and its impact on the nuclear debate.
The talk is part of the Bud Shorstein Speaker Series and co-sponsored by the UF Center for Jewish Studies’ Norman and Irma Braman Chair in Holocaust Studies; the UF Center for European Studies; the UF College of Liberal Arts & Sciences; and the Bob Graham Center for Public Service.
This is an in-person program that is free and open to the public.
About the Program
Iran’s nuclearization is the beginning of a very great change in the world,” then Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad threatened in 2007. It would be placed “at the service of those who are determined to confront the bullying powers and aggressors.”
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was succeeded by new presidents such as Hassan Rohani and Ebrahim Raisi. But Iranian Revolutionary Leader Ali Khamenei, the highest authority in the country, has remained. What has also remained is violence against critics of the regime, the rejection of liberal democracies, and the desire to destroy the Jewish state of Israel.
It is not the technology that makes Iran‘s nuclear program dangerous, but rather the ideological mix in which the nuclear option emerges. Never in the history of the nuclear age have religious fanatics been so close to the bomb.
Matthias Küntzel will explain how this came about and why all measures and resolutions of the international community to avert this danger have failed. He will also report on the uprising of Iranian women and its impact on the nuclear debate, and discuss possibilities for preventing the Iranian bomb.
About the Speaker
Dr. Matthias Küntzel is a political scientist and historian. He worked as a non-proliferation and nuclear expert for the Green Party’s parliamentary group in the German parliament from 1984 to 1988 and wrote his doctoral thesis on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the nuclear option. He has since published several books on Iran and German-Iranian relations in English, Farsi and German. He is a member of the German Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the advisory board of the US organization United Against A Nuclear Iran (UANI). In 2011, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) honored his commitment against anti-Semitism with the Paul Ehrlich-Günther Schwerin Human Rights Award; in 2022, he received the Theodor Lessing Award for Enlightened Thought and Action in Germany.
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Washington Internship Info Session
2022-11-18 15:30 - 18:00 | O’Neill Reading Room, 2nd floor, Pugh Hall
The Bob Graham Center for Public Service is excited to partner with the University of Florida Federal Relations Team to offer exciting opportunities for in-person work in the nation’s capital each spring, summer, and fall semester.
During the course of the semester, interns will have the opportunity to work with the UF Federal Relations team, a member of the Florida Congressional delegation, a congressional committee, a federal agency, or another government relations entity. The exact placement for each student will vary based on interests and availability.
The application period for Summer 2023 internships through our Washington Internship Program is now open. Potential applicants are encouraged to attend in person or virtually one of the two information sessions scheduled for today.
Learn more.

Soccer in Diplomacy Watch Party
2022-11-29 13:30 - 15:30 | Pugh Hall Ocora, 296 Buckman Dr, Gainesville, Florida, 32611, United States
Soccer is the only sport played in every corner of the world. Can soccer also be an effective means of global diplomacy?
The Bob Graham Center and UF’s History Department hosted an informal watch party of the U.S. v. Iran World Cup soccer match to learn more about the beautiful game’s role in history, politics, religion, as well as the struggle for class, gender, and racial equality.
Professors Matt Jacobs and Philip Janzen discussed how soccer has been entangled with wars, the spread of empires, the rise of nationalist
movements, and the reigns of dictators.

The Time is Now! MLK and Democratic Stewardship
2023-01-12 18:00 - 19:30 | Pugh Hall Ocora, 296 Buckman Dr, Gainesville, Florida, 32611, United States
Dr. Randal Maurice Jelks, author of Letters to Martin: Meditations on Democracy in Black America, spoke at the Graham Center on January 12, 2023 in the Pugh Hall Ocora.
In celebration of Martin Luther King Day, Dr. Jelks discussed how black citizens throughout U.S. history have been the country’s most avid supporters and protectors of democracy when resisting oligarchical forms of leadership and power. Dr. Jelks also examined the reflections and meditations outlined in his book through the Civil Rights Movement that King initiated, and progress made.
This program was presented in partnership with the University’s African American Studies Program, Bob Graham Center for Public Service, Office of Black Student Engagement in the Center for Inclusion & Multicultural Engagement, Chief Diversity Officer, Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, Department of History, and College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Associate Dean of Equity and Inclusion.
This in-person program was free and open to the public.
About the Speaker
Randal Maurice Jelks is an author, documentary film producer and a professor at the University of Kansas. He is the author of four books. His latest book is Letters to Martin: Meditations on Democracy in Black America . He is also a contributor to the Boston Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Truthout as well as national blogs, journals, magazine and newspapers.
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Deadline: Apply to Future of Florida Summit
2023-01-13 | Online, FL, United States
The annual Future of Florida Summit, hosted by the Bob Graham Center for Public Service at the University of Florida, gathered Florida’s future leaders from colleges and universities across the state to explore the most important issues facing us today.
If you want your college experience to expand beyond the classroom with real lessons that will stay with you and fellow students for the rest of your life, this is the opportunity for you. Learn more and apply now.
Throughout the summit, attendees collaborated with students from around the state in small groups to create innovative policy proposals.

Task Force Report: African & Native American History
2023-01-17 17:00 - 18:00 | Smathers Library Rm 100, Gainesville, 32611
In the walk of Black Lives Matter movement in 2020, UF President Kent Fuchs created a task force of students, staff and alumni to investigate UF’s relationship with African and Native Americans from 1853 to the present.
The public was invited to hear the report from the presidential task force on Tuesday, Jan. 17. Audience members received free copies of the task force report. A reception followed at the Institute of Black Culture.

Public Humanities As Environmental Humanities
2023-01-26 17:00 - 18:00 | Smathers Library Rm 100, Gainesville, 32611
Nicholas Allen, director of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts at the University of Georgia, will speak about contemporary roles for the environmental humanities, which aim to help bridge traditional divides between the sciences and the humanities.
This event is part of the Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere’s “Rethinking the Public Sphere: 2022-23” Speaker Series.

A Conversation with Mark Oppenheimer
2023-01-31 17:00 - 18:00 | Pugh Hall Ocora, 296 Buckman Dr, Gainesville, Florida, 32611, United States
Whoa, where did this come from?
The Antisemitism of 2022 and Its Origins
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Mark Oppenheimer has been covering American religion for 25 years. He holds a Ph.D. in religious studies from Yale, and has taught at Stanford, Wesleyan, Wellesley, NYU, Boston College, and Yale, where he recently retired after 15 years as the founding director of the Yale Journalism Initiative.
From 2010-2016, he wrote the Beliefs column, about religion, for The New York Times, and he has also written for publications including The New Yorker, The Nation, GQ, Slate, and many more. He created and hosts Unorthodox, the world’s most popular podcast about Jewish life and culture, with over 6 million downloads to date.
More recently, he hosted an eight-part podcast called Gatecrashers, about the history of Jews and antisemitism at Ivy League schools. He is the author of five books, including The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia and, most recently, Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood. He lives in Connecticut with his wife, four daughters, one son, and two dogs.
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Big Bot on Campus
2023-02-07 18:00 - 19:00 | Pugh Hall Ocora, 296 Buckman Dr, Gainesville, Florida, 32611, United States
Since the recent release of ChatGPT, chatbots have taken over the headlines. These AI chatbots can produce eerily human writing and speech, suggesting they are sentient beings. How do they work and how can we — or should we — work with them? What other problems will arise? Join CLAS faculty members for an engaging discussion of how chatbots are already making their presence felt on campus and how higher education may evolve alongside our robot friends.
Professor Jane Southworth moderated this panel.
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The Washington Center Info Session
2023-02-09 15:00 - 16:00 | Pugh Hall Rm 201
Are you interested in interning in Washington, DC this summer?
The Graham Center and the Washington Center invite you to a hybrid info session about TWC internships on Feb 9 at 3 pm. TWC is a fee-based internship opportunity that includes housing and great assistance helping you match with one of their many internship partners. Financial assistance is available. The session for in-person attendance will be in Pugh Hall Rm 210.
RSVP for the Zoom link
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2023 Future of Florida Summit
2023-02-10 15:00 - 2023-02-12 12:00 | Emerson Alumni Hall, 1938 W University Ave, Gainesville, FL, 32603, United States
Sixty students from colleges around Florida will gather on the University of Florida campus for the 2023 Future of Florida Summit.
The summit is the largest student-led policy conference in the state, giving future leaders the chance to address pressing issues facing the state. By the Summit’s end, the students have increased their understanding of our democratic system and the role they can play in it.
This year’s topic is K-12 education. For complete agenda details, visit the Future of Florida Summit website.
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Stand Up & Holler: Gator Nation Giving Day
2023-02-16 | Online, FL, United States
Stand Up & Holler: Gator Nation Giving Day is an all-day fundraising event, calling on the University of Florida alumni, students, faculty, staff, parents and families and friends to come together to support UF and all of its areas of positive impact in our state, nation and world.
Make a gift to any one of three Bob Graham Center Giving Day Funds

Presidents' Day Trivia Night
2023-02-16 17:00 - 19:00 | Pugh Hall Ocora, 296 Buckman Dr, Gainesville, Florida, 32611, United States
Back by popular demand, it was Trivia Night at the Graham Center!
This time we’re celebrated Presidents’ Day. Participants tested their knowledge of U.S. presidents past and present, and enjoyed pizza, an ice cream bar and prizes, plus the area’s most awesome DJ Tom Collette.

Askew Scholars Application Deadline
2023-02-19 | Online, FL, United States
The Reubin Askew Scholars application period is now open. The application will close on Sunday, February 19 at 11:59 pm.
Askew Scholars receive $2,000 over the course of an academic year to support a significant research or public service project.
Applicants from any undergraduate major and college at the University of Florida may apply. The GPA requirement is 3.0 and above.
Students apply during the spring to be recognized as an Askew Scholar for the following academic year. For complete details
Learn more at the Askew Scholars website

Dan Berger and Stayed On Freedom
2023-02-23 17:00 - 17:30 | Smathers Library Rm 100, Gainesville, 32611
Together with the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, the Graham Center presented an in-person book reading of Stayed on Freedom: The Long History of Black Power Through One Family’s Journey by author Dan Berger. A free book signing will follow.
The book is the story of the Black Power movement through the experiences of UF Professor Emerita Zoharah Simmons and her husband, Michael. Dr. Simmons will speak briefly after Berger’s talk. The narrative depicts the odyssey of Simmons from her time as an organizer with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party to her international work for peace and liberation.
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Transatlantic Community & Aftermath of Russia's Aggression
2023-02-27 18:00 - 19:00 | Pugh Hall Ocora, 296 Buckman Dr, Gainesville, Florida, 32611, United States
Monday, February 27, 2023
6 – 7 p.m.
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Russia’s largescale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has changed the geo-political landscape in the transatlantic community in a way not seen since World War II. One of the invasion’s most significant consequences has been to instill cohesion and restore a sense of purpose to NATO. What does this all mean for the future of the transatlantic community?
Luke Coffey, an expert on the role of NATO and the European Union in transatlantic and Eurasian security, and UF professor of political science Zach Selden joined for a program titled The Transatlantic Community in the Aftermath of Russia’s Aggression: What is Next?
This Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence program is sponsored by in cooperation with the UF Center for European Studies and Erasmus+ of the European Commission.
About the Speakers
Luke Coffey is a senior fellow at Hudson Institute, analyzing national security and foreign policy, with a focus on Europe, Eurasia, NATO, and transatlantic relations. His commentary and analysis have been widely published and he has been interviewed on television and radio by prestigious media outlets in the US and overseas.
He received a master of science degree in the politics and government of the European Union from the London School of Economics. He holds a bachelor’s in political science from the University of Missouri–St. Louis and studied African politics at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. Read more.
He served as a commissioned officer in the Army and has extensive experience in British politics, including in the House of Commons as an adviser on defense and security issues for the Conservative Party, and in the House of Commons as an adviser on defense and security issues for the Conservative Party.
Zach Selden is an associate professor of political science at the University of Florida. His research and teaching focus on U.S. national security and alliances with an emphasis on the transatlantic relationship. His first book, Economic Sanctions as Instruments of American Foreign Policy examines the use of sanctions and provides a framework for understanding when and why they succeed or fail in furthering American national interests.
In Alignment, Alliance, and American Grand Strategy he examines the different forms of alliance relations that the U.S. maintains, and how these alliances can be leveraged to ensure American security interests at a relatively low cost.
He was previously the Deputy Secretary General for Policy at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Brussels, and the Director of the Defense and Security Committee of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.
He holds a Ph.D. from UCLA. His current research focuses on the development of the intelligence community and how specific events led to the growth of its size and power.
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Gators Vote 2023 Organizing Meeting
2023-03-03 14:00 | O’Neill Reading Rm, 2nd Floor, Pugh Hall
Interested in building a civically engaged community? The Gators Vote Cabinet is a partnership of organizations committed to promoting a civic culture on campus. Join us this Friday at 2 pm in the O’Neill Reading Room on the second floor of Pugh Hall to discuss civic learning initiatives. Fill out this form to be a formal member of the Gators Vote Cabinet.

Washington DC Internship Info Session
2023-03-06 16:00 - 17:00 | O’Neill Reading Room, 2nd floor, Pugh Hall
The Bob Graham Center for Public Service is excited to partner with the University of Florida Federal Relations Team to offer exciting opportunities for in-person work in the nation’s capital each spring, summer, and fall semester.
During the course of the semester, interns will have the opportunity to work with the UF Federal Relations team, a member of the Florida Congressional delegation, a congressional committee, a federal agency, or another government relations entity. The exact placement for each student will vary based on interests and availability.
The application period for Fall 2023 internships through our Washington Internship Program is now open. Potential applicants are encouraged to attend in person or virtually the information session on Mar. 6, 2023 at 4 pm.
Learn more.

Lunch and Learn with Andrew Shodell
2023-03-07 12:00 - 13:00 | Pugh Hall, O’Neill Reading Room (Room 201), 296 Buckman Dr, Gainesville, FL, 32611, United States
Tuesday, March 7
12 – 1 p.m.
Pugh Hall’s O’Neill Reading Room (Room 201)
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What steps can you take today to enhance your ability to build a better future?
UF fourth-year English and political science student Andrew Shodell hosted a lunch-and-learn conversation and Q&A on March 7.
Andy shared his journey from UF’s campus to Florida’s executive branch in Tallahassee to the Executive Office of the President in Washington, D.C., taking advantage along the way of opportunities open to all students at UF.
As a freshman, Andy joined The Florida Political Review, the state’s preeminent student political journal housed in the Bob Graham Center. As a senior, Andy is now editor-in-chief of FPR and has worked as a student assistant at the Bob Graham Center and served in internships with the White House, Sachs Media Group, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, the University of Florida Office of the President, and Statecraft Digital. He also serves as an executive director of the student organization Engage Florida.
Andy has published op-eds in The Gainesville Sun and The Independent Florida Alligator providing career advice for students based on his experiences.
About the Speaker
Andrew Shodell is a fourth-year English and political science student at the University of Florida from Miami. At the Bob Graham Center for Public Service, Andy works as a student assistant on special communications initiatives and serves as editor-in-chief of the Florida Political Review. He has interned with the White House Office of Communications, Commissioner of the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, public relations firm Sachs Media Group, and Statecraft Digital campaign group. Andy enjoys editing and writing speeches, articles, poems, and whatever else he can think of.

Ainissa Ramirez: The Alchemy of Us
2023-03-08 16:00 - 17:00 | Pugh Hall Ocora, 296 Buckman Dr, Gainesville, Florida, 32611, United States
Dr. Ainissa Ramirez, best known as a masterful science communicator and author of The Alchemy of Us, delivered an in-person lecture on March 8.
The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another examines eight inventions — clocks, steel rails, copper communication cables, photographic film, light bulbs, hard disks, scientific labware, and silicon chips — and reveals how they shaped the human experience. The book was an L.A. Times Book Prize finalist, was named one of the best science books of 2020 by Smithsonian Magazine, and won the AAAS/Subaru Book Prize.
Dr. Ramirez is a graduate of Brown University, and earned her doctorate in materials science and engineering from Stanford University. She began her career as a scientist at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ, and was later an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Yale. She now shares her passion for science with the general public.
Ramirez has also written for Forbes, Time, The Atlantic and Scientific American and has explained science headlines on CBS, CNN, NPR, ESPN and PBS.
She speaks widely on the topics of science and technology and gave a TED talk on the importance of science education. Currently, she is writing a series of science books for young readers with Candlewick/MIT Press.
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Bringing African American History To K-12 Classrooms
2023-03-21 17:00 | Pugh Hall Ocora, 296 Buckman Dr, Gainesville, Florida, 32611, United States
Educational specialist Dr. Rebekah Cordova spoke about creating new lesson plans on African American history for K-12 classrooms using the oral histories captured by the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program. This event was a collaborative initiative with the Department of Linguistics, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
A panel of teachers and students discussed their goals regarding the implementation and learning of African American History in their K-12 classroom. The discussion focused on issues of content availability and accuracy; opportunities and barriers; and the current political climate surrounding the teaching of African American History in Florida schools.
Guests had the chance to ask questions and engaged with panelists following the presentation.
Learn more on the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences website.
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2023 Joan S. Forrest Women in Leadership Forum
2023-03-22 18:00 - 19:00 | Pugh Hall Ocora, 296 Buckman Dr, Gainesville, Florida, 32611, United States
In honor of Women’s History Month, the Bob Graham Center for Public Service hosted the 2023 Joan S. Forrest Women in Leadership Forum.
This year’s Forum featured a diverse set of women from multidisciplinary backgrounds who have risen to the top of the ranks and have made great strides in their career.
The Women in Leadership Forum is hosted in collaboration with the Bob Graham Center Student Fellows. The event began with a reception followed by a moderated panel discussion.
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