Bob Graham Center for Public Service

Economist Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach discussed major policy issues including poverty, education, health and income support and how these policies impact children’s long-term outcomes. Her recent work focuses on tracing the impact of the Food Stamp Program and early childhood education on February 9 in the Pugh Hall Ocora. Schanzenbach is the Director of the Hamilton Project and a …

Dr. Duane Mitchell, co-director of UF’s Preston A. Wells Jr. Center for Brain Tumor Therapy and head of the Cancer Therapeutics & Immuno-Oncology program at the UF Health Cancer Center, presented a conversation about the use of immunotherapy to treat brain cancers on Monday, Feb. 13 at 6 p.m. in the Pugh Hall Ocora. Mitchell …

In late December 2012, Jewish American photographer Matthew Schrier was captured by an Al Qaeda affiliate in Syria while traveling on the road between Aleppo and the Turkish border. He was among a collection of kidnapped American journalists held by Syrian jihadists in the Syrian city of Aleppo. Schrier strategically converted to Islam in March 2013 as a …

The Bob Graham Center hosted a public talk by Judge Steven Leifman and Leon Evans on Tuesday, March 14, at 6 p.m. in the Pugh Hall Ocora.  They discussed cutting-edge community programs developed as part of the national “stepping up” initiative aimed at reducing incarceration rates among those with mental illness. The Honorable Steve Leifman …

Politicizing religion in the U.S. has resulted in the rise of religious intolerance and discrimination against religious minorities and politicians have made religion into an instrument by which to mobilize voters. The Center for Global Islamic Studies and the Bob Graham Center for Public Service hosted a panel discussion at 6 p.m. on March 21 in …

Sarasota Herald-Tribune reporters Emily Le Coz and Josh Salman discussed the award-winning investigative series, "Bias on the bench," which reveals Florida’s broken judicial sentencing system on April 3 at 6 p.m. in the Pugh Hall Ocora. Using an unprecedented analysis of more than 80 million records in two statewide databases, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune revealed apparent bias in Florida’s sentencing …

American Jews remain the most pro-Democratic white ethnic group in the United States, a puzzling phenomenon because they exhibit social traits usually associated with conservative and Republican loyalties. In trying to account for this pattern, Kenneth D. Wald, distinguished professor emeritus of political science at the University of Florida, explored how concerns about the relationship …

John J. Mulligan, the deputy director of the National Counterterrorism Center, spoke at 6 p.m. on Thursday, April 13, in the Pugh Hall Ocora on the current terrorist threat environment, both global and national, reviewing recent history and examining the evolving nature of terrorist threats. Mulligan describes current challenges facing the U.S. counterterrorism mission and the manner in …

Nobel Laureate Erick Maskin, a professor at Harvard University, discussed his research on applying economic theory to the study of election systems in different Western countries at 10 a.m. on Friday, April 28, in the Reitz Union Auditorium. Professor Maskin received the 2007 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics (with L. Hurwicz and R. Myerson) for laying the …

The University of Florida Levin College of Law Center for Governmental Responsibility, the Bob Graham Center for Public Service and the George A. Smathers Libraries hosted a discussion with two Florida judicial system luminaries: the Honorable Rosemary Barkett (JD 70) and the Honorable Joseph Hatchett (Howard University School of Law, LLB 59). The distinguished guests, …