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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.

Washington Internship Info Session

O'Neill Reading Room, 2nd floor, Pugh Hall

The Bob Graham Center for Public Service is excited to partner with the University of Florida Federal Relations Team to offer exciting opportunities for in-person work in the nation’s capital each spring, summer, and fall semester. During the course of the semester, interns will have the opportunity to work with the UF Federal Relations team,

Soccer in Diplomacy Watch Party

Pugh Hall Ocora 296 Buckman Dr, Gainesville, Florida, United States

Soccer is the only sport played in every corner of the world. Can soccer also be an effective means of global diplomacy? The Bob Graham Center and UF’s History Department hosted an informal watch party of the U.S. v. Iran World Cup soccer match to learn more about the beautiful game’s role in history, politics,

The Time is Now! MLK & Democratic Stewardship

Pugh Hall Ocora 296 Buckman Dr, Gainesville, Florida, United States

Dr. Randal Maurice Jelks, author of Letters to Martin: Meditations on Democracy in Black America, spoke at the Graham Center on January 12, 2023 in the Pugh Hall Ocora. In celebration of Martin Luther King Day, Dr. Jelks  discussed how black citizens throughout  U.S. history have been the country’s most avid supporters and protectors of democracy

Deadline: Apply to Future of Florida Summit

Online FL, United States

The annual Future of Florida Summit, hosted by the Bob Graham Center for Public Service at the University of Florida, gathered Florida's future leaders from colleges and universities across the state to explore the most important issues facing us today. If you want your college experience to expand beyond the classroom with real lessons that

Task Force Report: African & Native American History

Smathers Library Rm 100 Gainesville

In the walk of Black Lives Matter movement in 2020, UF President Kent Fuchs created a task force of students, staff and alumni to investigate UF's relationship with African and Native Americans from 1853 to the present. The public was invited to hear the report from the presidential task force on Tuesday, Jan. 17. Audience

Public Humanities As Environmental Humanities

Smathers Library Rm 100 Gainesville

Nicholas Allen, director of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts at the University of Georgia, will speak about contemporary roles for the environmental humanities, which aim to help bridge traditional divides between the sciences and the humanities. This event is part of the Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere’s “Rethinking the Public Sphere:

A Conversation with Mark Oppenheimer

Pugh Hall Ocora 296 Buckman Dr, Gainesville, Florida, United States

Whoa, where did this come from? The Antisemitism of 2022 and Its Origins Watch the recorded event Mark Oppenheimer has been covering American religion for 25 years. He holds a Ph.D. in religious studies from Yale, and has taught at Stanford, Wesleyan, Wellesley, NYU, Boston College, and Yale, where he recently retired after 15 years

Big Bot on Campus

Pugh Hall Ocora 296 Buckman Dr, Gainesville, Florida, United States

Since the recent release of ChatGPT, chatbots have taken over the headlines. These AI chatbots can produce eerily human writing and speech, suggesting they are sentient beings. How do they work and how can we — or should we — work with them? What other problems will arise? Join CLAS faculty members for an engaging discussion of how chatbots are already making their presence felt on campus and how higher education may evolve alongside our robot friends.

The Washington Center Info Session

Pugh Hall Rm 201

Are you interested in interning in Washington, DC this summer? The Graham Center and the Washington Center invite you to a hybrid info session about TWC internships on Feb 9 at 3 pm. TWC is a fee-based internship opportunity that includes housing and great assistance helping you match with one of their many internship partners.

2023 Future of Florida Summit

Emerson Alumni Hall 1938 W University Ave, Gainesville, FL, United States

Sixty students from colleges around Florida will gather on the University of Florida campus for the 2023 Future of Florida Summit. The summit is the largest student-led policy conference in the state, giving future leaders the chance to address pressing issues facing the state. By the Summit's end, the students have increased their understanding of