Bob Graham Center for Public Service

The University of Florida Office of the Provost and the Bob Graham Center for Public Service hosted the 2017 Provost Symposium on January 26-27 at Emerson Alumni Hall.  The program focused on implicit bias and how we address cultural climate issues on the UF campus. Kate Ratliff, assistant professor in UF’s Department of Psychology and Executive …

Ibram X. Kendi, Assistant Professor of African American history at the University of Florida, spoke in the Pugh Hall Ocora on Jan. 31 about his recently published book Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America. The book recently won a National Book Award for Nonfiction. In the book, Kendi examines …

On Friday, Feb. 3, the University of Florida Office of the President, the Bob Graham Center for Public Service, and the Levin College of Law presented two talks by Cornell University Dean and American Studies Professor Glenn Altschuler, who drew on his discussion of trials in a just-published book, Ten Great American Trials: Lessons in Advocacy. At …

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 …