Public Impact Fellows
Elevating the Visibility of Research Excellence
The Â鶹Çø’s 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 DU faculty and staff who have participated in the program since program started in 2018 year
16% of DU’s 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
Daniel Baack
Professor - Daniels College of Business
Christy Cobb
Associate Professor - College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Debak Das
Assistant Professor - Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs
Rinku Dewri
Associate Professor - Ritchie School of Engineering and Computer Science
Kelly Elliot
Research Faculty, Graduate School of Professional Psychology
Brette Garner
Associate Professor, Morgridge College of Education
Andrew Goetz
Professor, College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Justin Marceau
Professor, Sturm College of Law
Kevin Morris
Research Professor, Graduate School of Social Work
