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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.

Ditch of Dreams

The 2009 Samuel Proctor Florida History Lecture Series at the University of Florida began on September 23 with a presentation by two Gainesville historians. Steven Noll, senior lecturer in history at UF, and David Tegeder, history professor at Santa Fe College, presented “Ditch of Dreams: The Cross Florida Barge Canal and the Struggle for Florida’s

Environmentalist Joe Browder discussed the past and future of the Everglades

Joe Browder, an environmental consultant and former conservation director of Friends of the Earth, presented “Everglades Visions, Revisions, and History” on October 8, 2009. Browder emerged from the grassroots in the early 1960s to help save South Florida’s most precious natural wonders from unrestrained forces of growth. Jack Davis, associate professor of history at UF explained