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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.

Latest Past Events

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

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

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