Bob Graham Center for Public Service

Jon Mills, former Speaker of the Florida House and former Dean of the University of Florida's Levin College of Law, along with Neil Chonin, litigation director of the Southern Legal Counsel, discussed the upcoming landmark trial Citizens for Strong Schools v. Florida State Board of Education on Thursday, October 10 at UF’s Levin College of Law, Room …

John Bul Dau explores territory few can imagine—the depths of inhumanity and the boundaries of endurance. In 1987, at age 13, Dau fled his home in southern Sudan, narrowly escaping troops sent to exterminate all black Christian males. As his village was burned, women raped, children enslaved, and young men shot, Dau began a perilous …

Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, Will Weatherford spoke at the Bob Graham Center as part of the Florida Leadership Series. Weatherford discussed a host of national and local issues, including the importance of civic engagement, term limits, the Affordable Care Act, education reform and online education, unemployment and poverty. The event was at …

When an individual experiences trauma, it impacts every area of functioning — physical, mental, behavioral, social, and spiritual. Addressing trauma, especially in young children, will help to improve the long-term safety and well-being of a community. On Nov. 4 the Bob Graham Center for Public Service, the University of Florida’s College of Medicine and the …

WUFT News, in partnership with the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications, as well as the Sarasota Herald-Tribune and the Bob Graham Center for Public Service presented "A Conversation on Human Trafficking" on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013. The discussion was presented in three segments: An introduction to human trafficking in Florida, the Challenge …

The Office of the Provost and the Bob Graham Center for Public Service at the University of Florida jointly offered a two-day conference for faculty and administrators entitled Online Learning and the Future of Higher Education on Dec. 3-4. Leaders from around the nation and faculty and administrators from UF gathered to engage in a substantive discussion about …

The Bob Graham Center for Public Service, in partnership with the Center for European Studies and the CLAS Dean’s Office, hosted a moderated discussion on the developments and recent anti-government protests in Ukraine on January 14 in the Pugh Hall Ocora. Sergiy Balan, a visiting Fulbright scholar in political science from Ukraine, was joined by …

Pulitzer Prize winning author David J. Garrow offered an intricate and fascinating perspective on the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. Garrow has written extensively on the civil rights movement. His book Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Robert …

In 1979, when Derreck Kayongo was ten, his family fled the civil war in Uganda for a better life in America. Kayongo never forgot the experience of homelessness and living in a refugee camp, and today he has made it his mission to help save the lives of millions of children in developing countries, one …

Students interested in running for public office or who have an interest in learning more about the internal workings of political campaigns were provided an unique opportunity to hear and interact with three prominant and successful politicians on Tuesday, Feb. 4. Former Florida Governor and U.S. Senator Bob Graham, current Gainesville Mayor Ed Braddy, and …