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
Bringing African American History To K-12 Classrooms
Pugh Hall Ocora 296 Buckman Dr, GainesvilleEducational specialist Dr. Rebekah Cordova spoke about creating new lesson plans on African American history for K-12 classrooms using the oral histories captured by the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program. This event was a collaborative initiative with the Department of Linguistics, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. A panel of teachers and students
Ainissa Ramirez: The Alchemy of Us
Pugh Hall Ocora 296 Buckman Dr, GainesvilleDr. Ainissa Ramirez, best known as a masterful science communicator and author of The Alchemy of Us, delivered an in-person lecture on March 8. The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another examines eight inventions -- clocks, steel rails, copper communication cables, photographic film, light bulbs, hard disks, scientific labware, and silicon
Lunch and Learn with Andrew Shodell
Pugh Hall, O’Neill Reading Room (Room 201) 296 Buckman Dr, GainesvilleWhat steps can you take today to enhance your ability to build a better future? UF fourth-year English and political science student Andrew Shodell is hosting a lunch-and-learn conversation and Q&A on March 7 at noon in Pugh Hall’s O’Neill Reading Room (Room 201). Lunch is provided to those who RSVP before 5 pm on Mar. 6.