Bob Graham Center for Public Service

Explore More – a forum for scientists and scholars featured in UF’s Explore research magazine – presented a conversation about sea level rise past, present and future with UF geochemist Andrea Dutton and urban planner Kathryn Frank on Tuesday, August 30, at 6 p.m. in the Pugh Hall Ocora. Andrea Dutton, an assistant professor in UF’s Department …

Love Wins, authored by Debbie Cenziper and Jim Obergefell, is a "fascinating and very moving story of the lovers, lawyers, judges and activists behind the groundbreaking Supreme Court case that led to one of the most important, national civil rights victories in decades—the legalization of same-sex marriage." A University of Florida College of Journalism and …

The tragic incident at Pulse nightclub in Orlando has intensified the fear of terror hitting close to home. This fear has been translated into xenophobic sentiments particularly targeting our Muslim community. The Center for Global Islamic Studies and the Bob Graham Center for Public Service will hosted a panel discussion at 6 p.m. on Sept. …

On Thursday, Sept.15, the University of Florida Center for European Studies, the Jean Monnet Center for Excellence and the Bob Graham Center for Public Service hosted a roundtable examining the political and economic impacts of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union. Distinguished scholars from across the U.S. in fields of political science and economics led the informative …

The University of Florida’s Samuel Proctor Oral History Program hosted a book talk with University of Michigan history professor, Dr. Scott Ellsworth entitled, “THE SECRET GAME: Race, Sports, and Change in the Jim Crow South” in Pugh Hall, located on the campus of the University of Florida. Dr. Ellsworth’s talk coincided with the Samuel Proctor Oral History …

Tampa Bay Times reporter Craig Pittman is a native Floridian. He graduated from Troy State University in Alabama, where his muckraking work for the student paper prompted an agitated dean to label him "the most destructive force on campus." Since then he has covered a variety of newspaper beats and quite a few natural disasters, …

Recent studies on human variation seem to confirm what we have known for several decades; the biological concept of race is a crude and inaccurate tool to represent human diversity. Yet, technological advances in DNA research have reinvigorated scientific interest in questions on human differences. Such research has received much public attention and has led …

Explore More – a forum for scientists and scholars  featured in UF’s Explore research magazine – presented two UF elections experts, computer science Professor Juan Gilbert and political science Associate Professor Michael McDonald on Tuesday, October 18, at 6 p.m. in the Pugh Hall Ocora. Gilbert is the Andrew Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Professor and chair …

Muslims have been at the center of political rhetoric and discourse from both parties, especially during this election. Research shows that it is political rhetoric, not terrorist events, that stoke the fires of anti-Muslim sentiment. On Thursday, Oct. 20, at 6 p.m. in the Pugh Hall Ocora, the Executive Director of the Institute of Social …

The Gainesville Sun hosted a panel discussion at the Bob Graham Center on Oct. 25 at 6 p.m. which will focus on health disparities and how they relate to issues of education, crime and economic opportunities in our community. The panel featured Dr. Nancy Hardt, professor emeritus in the University of Florida College of Medicine; David Denslow, …