The Bob Graham Center for Public Service provides a wide variety of programs for students and the larger public on topics related to public service, public leadership and civic engagement.
Rosemary Barkett and Joseph Hatchett
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, …
GRU/GREC
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 …
Future-Focused: Florida’s State Museum Turns 100
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. …
From Heroes to Hacks: The Disturbing Rise of Bad Teachers on Television
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 …
Paradise Remembered: The History of Paradise Park
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 …
The Rising Cost of Natural Hazards & Growing Disaster Risk
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 …
Beyond Charity: Supporting Society’s Most Vulnerable
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 …
American Civil Liberties: Jon Mills & Howard Simon
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 …
From Ideas to Practice: Leading Change in Health Care
Dr. Baligh Yehia, senior medical director at Johns Hopkins Medicine and former deputy under secretary for health at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), discussed how to transform ideas into practice and shared lessons learned on creating change in complex health systems at 6 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 16, in the Pugh Hall Ocora. …
The Gulf: Making of an American Sea
Jack E. Davis, professor of environmental history and sustainability studies at the University of Florida, discussed his latest book, The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea, on Oct. 17 at 6 p.m. in the Pugh Hall Ocora. The book is a finalist for the Kirkus Prize and a semifinalist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence. …