Bob Graham Center for Public Service

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, …

The Gainesville Sun, WUFT and the Bob Graham Center hosted a public program at 6 p.m. on June 13 in Pugh Hall's MacKay Auditorium that examined the ongoing negotiation between Gainesville Regional Utilities and the Gainesville Renewable Energy Center. The panel featured Ed Bielarski, general manager of Gainesville Regional Utilities; Darin Cook, chair of the Utilities Advisory Board …

Explore More – a forum for scientists and scholars featured in UF’s Explore research magazine – presented a conversation with Florida Museum of Natural History Director Douglas S. Jones, Ph.D., about the museum's century of extraordinary success as both the state museum and UF’s natural history museum. The museum is widely ranked among the top three university-associated natural history museums in the nation. …

Many Americans have lost faith in public education and its ability to effectively teach our nation's students. This notion of inadequacy is fueled by media stereotypes and portrayals. On Sept. 20 at 6 p.m. in the Pugh Hall Ocora, the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, the School of Teaching and Learning, Education …

Local author Cynthia Wilson-Graham, co-author of the book Remembering Paradise Park, Tourism and Segregation with Lu Vickers, recounted the history of Paradise Park on Sept. 26 at 6 p.m. in the Pugh Hall Ocora. The program was cosponsored by the Bob Graham Center, the UF Dial Center and the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program. Wilson-Graham, an educator …

On Sept. 28 at 6 p.m. in the Pugh Hall Ocora, WUFT-FM, the Florida Public Radio Emergency Network (FPREN) and the Bob Graham Center for Public Service hosted former Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Craig Fugate. Fugate discussed his experiences serving as President Barack Obama’s FEMA Administrator, the future of disaster response, increasing disaster risk …

2017 Citizen of the Year, Dr. Pedro Jose Greer, spoke at the Bob Graham Center on October 3 at 6 p.m. in the Pugh Hall Ocora. Greer, the associate dean for community engagement at Florida International University’s Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, has spent decades delivering medical care to Florida’s homeless and developing the next generation of …

Howard Simon, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida joined Jon Mills, dean emeritus, professor of law, and director of Center for Governmental Responsibility at UF’s Levin College of Law, for a discussuion focusing on the big challenges facing Florida in the Pugh Hall Ocora on Oct. 9 at 6 p.m. Topics …