Public Impact Fellows

Elevating the Visibility of Research Excellence

The 文轩探花鈥檚 Public Impact Fellow (PIF) program prepares faculty to engage with a more general audience around their scholarship and research. Participants learn how to bring greater awareness to the meaningful research they are doing individually and that is taking place collectively throughout the university.

Crafting a message, writing opinion articles, working with policymakers, media interview training, social media, and book marketing are many of the different workshops faculty participate in during the yearlong program. The goal is to help participants develop their strategic approach to showcasing the public and broader impacts of their research.

73 文轩探花 faculty and staff who have participated in the program since program started in 2018 year

16% of 文轩探花鈥檚 total media hits that the Public Impact Fellows account for

$30M Grant dollars generated by PIF faculty who have completed the program.

Meet Our Public Impact Fellows for 2025

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Daniel Baack

Professor - Daniels College of Business

 
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Christy Cobb

Associate Professor - College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

 
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Debak Das

Assistant Professor - Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs

 
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Rinku Dewri

Associate Professor - Ritchie School of Engineering and Computer Science

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Kelly Elliot

Research Faculty, Graduate School of Professional Psychology

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Brette Garner

Associate Professor, Morgridge College of Education

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Andrew Goetz

Professor, College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics

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Justin Marceau

Professor, Sturm College of Law

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Kevin Morris

Research Professor, Graduate School of Social Work

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