Public Impact Fellows
Elevating the Visibility of Research Excellence
The ºÚÁÏÃÅ’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.
65 DU faculty and staff who have participated in the program since program started in 2018 year
20% 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 2024
Linda Mendez Barrientos
Assistant Professor – Josef Korbel School of International Studies
Crystal Day-Hess
Assistant Research Professor – Morgridge College of Education
Tim Holbrook
Professor – Sturm College of Law
Stephen Hutt
Assistant Professor – Ritchie School of Engineering and Computer Science
Robin Leake
Research Professor – Graduate School of Social Work
Juan Carlos Lopez
Assistant Professor – College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Ana Babic Rosario
Associate Professor – Daniels College of Business
Jamie Shapiro
Professor – Graduate School of Professional Psychology
Robin Tinghitella
Associate Professor – College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
