The 2024-2025 Haskell Faculty Research Award application period is now closed.
About the Program
The Haskell Faculty Research Award program offers UF faculty a research award of up to $3,000 each for a research project related to the Center’s principles of civic engagement, public leadership, and public service. The research project should result in a work product disseminated in the public sphere to advance public understanding of the issue, in a non-academic publication such as a newspaper, magazine, or online forum. Proposals are welcome from all academic units at UF.
An additional stipend will be awarded to the undergraduate student that takes a meaningful research role on the project and be acknowledged as a co-author or contributor. The student will receive $750 at the beginning of each semester during the project’s duration, for up to three semesters. Undergraduate students must be selected by the faculty member heading the project, and then identified to the Center as a research assistant. Preference will be given to projects including an undergraduate with limited research experience.
A faculty committee drawn from the Center faculty and staff will select the award recipients.
Highlights from Past Haskell Scholars
- The efforts of Haskell Scholar Chris Cuevas and his faculty mentor David Kaplan (opens in new tab) have been featured in a University of Florida news release, UF public perception survey shows high level of concern over algal blooms in Florida waters (opens in new tab). The study is providing a better understanding Florida voters’ perceptions of algal bloom issues and shows that a vast majority of Florida residents are concerned about algal blooms regardless of political, socioeconomic or racial differences.
- An essay published in the Washington Post by Lauren Pearlman (opens in new tab), Here’s How President Trump Could Really Celebrate the Fourth of July (opens in new tab), was developed with the research provided by Haskell Scholar Elizabeth Ingersent. The essay reviews the issue of statehood for Washington, D.C. and argues that President Trump should support an upcoming bill before the before the House Oversight and Reform Committee.
- Haskell Scholar Taisha Saintil and her faculty mentor Sharon Austin (opens in new tab) published an essay in the Gainesville Sun titled Should Amendment 4 be delayed? (opens in new tab) which examines the pros and cons of delaying the implementation of Amendment 4, a recently passed state constitutional amendment restoring the right to vote for convicted felons in Florida that have completed their sentence.
Application Process
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Proposals should include the following:
- A two-page proposal describing the project; the intended role for the undergraduate research assistant; the project’s relevance to the Center’s driving principles of civic engagement, public leadership, public policy, or public service, broadly defined; and a plan for public dissemination (such as target publication, community event, exhibit, or other means beyond publication in traditional academic journals).
- A one-paragraph biographical sketch of faculty researcher (and an additional paragraph for the undergraduate research assistant, if already identified).
- Proposed timeline and budget for research expenses up to $3,000 (not including undergraduate student stipend). Projects must be completed within three semesters (summer may or may not count as one semester, so please specify if the proposal includes summer).
The results of each project should be completed by the end of the 2024-2025 academic year and disseminated in the public sphere. Undergraduate student partners should be acknowledged as co-authors or contributors. A copy of the project must be submitted to the Center by May 1, 2025 and will then be highlighted on the Bob Graham Center for Public Service website.
Faculty and students who have received an Askew, University Scholar Program, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Research, other college research, etc. award on the same or similar topic are not eligible for this award.
If you have any questions, please contact Reed Jeffries, Research Assistant, Bob Graham Center for Public Service at Graham-Center@ufl.edu or (352) 846-1575, ext 1.