Author: jplucas

Quoted: Kurt Squire of University of Wisconsin, co-chairman of annual academic conference called â??Game, Learning & Society,â? said the project as described â??is really exciting because itâ??s taking a ubiquitous platform (cell phones) and trying to work in such a unique environment. There havenâ??t been any major successes that Iâ??m aware of, but this kind of application and deployment is really smart and could be a huge success.â?

Quoted: Brent Hueth, director of the University of Wisconsin’s Center for Cooperatives.

Quoted: Dr. Lucille Marchand, the clinical director of integrative oncology services at the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center, helped Frisch make some important health decisions.

Quoted: Even though Obama has a lead in the polls, Wisconsin isn’t a runaway Democratic state, said Charles Franklin, a professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison and co-developer of pollster.com.

Quoted: Voter turnout is by far the lowest among the youngest age group, which includes people between 18 and 24 years old, said Charles Franklin, a professor of political science at University of Wisconsin-Madison and the co-developer of Pollster.com, a Web site that offers statistics and commentary about the upcoming election.

Quoted: Barry Burden, a UW-Madison political science professor who studies voter turnout, said Obama is trying to capitalize on recent polls that show him ahead of McCain by as many as 17 percentage points in Wisconsin and lock in those votes before they have a chance to slip away.

Quoted: Jonathan Temte – a family-medicine doctor at the University of Wisconsin and a member of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which made the new recommendation – said immunizing even 40 to 50 percent of children could have “very dramatic effects” on flu-transmission rates.

Quoted: A sour public mood is typical late in presidential campaigns as both sides’ attacks accumulate, said University of Wisconsin political scientist and polling authority Charles Franklin. This year’s disenchantment is probably magnified by worries about how the candidates would handle the economy, he said

Quoted: “Presidential campaigns are about making tough decisions with limited resources,” said University of Wisconsin political scientist Ken Goldstein, who tracks presidential campaign spending on television. “Obama doesn’t need to make tough decisions.”

Quoted: “Ten of the 15 states where both candidates are advertising were won by Bush in the 2004 election,” said University of Wisconsin professor Ken Goldstein, director of the Wisconsin Advertising Project. “The campaign is being played on the Republican side of the field this year.”

Quoted: “These are absolutely astronomical numbers,” said Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. “Never before have the Democrats been so flush with funds.”

Quoted: â??This is uncharted territory,â? said Kenneth M. Goldstein, the director of the Advertising Project at the University of Wisconsin. â??Weâ??ve certainly seen heavy advertising battles before. But weâ??ve never seen in a presidential race one side having such a lopsided advantage.â?

Quoted: â??The bottom line is, in the last two presidential elections, the voter percentages barely moved over the last three weeks,â? said Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin political scientist and co-founder of the Web site Pollster.com. â??Thatâ??s very bad news for John McCain.â?

Quoted: David Mladenoff, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of forest ecology, has done computer modeling for the past six years to see how northern Wisconsin forests might change under different climates.

Quoted: â??What you see is itâ??s perfectly possible to hold a negative view of at least one aspect of African-Americans and yet simultaneously prefer Obama,â? said Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. â??Racial feelings are not as cut and dried â?? not as black and white â?? as people often say.â?

Quoted: Ken Goldstein, director of the Wisconsin Advertising Project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, calculated that 47 per cent of Mr McCain’s advertisements since June had been negative, as had 35 per cent of Mr Obama’s messages.

Quoted: Barry Orton, a professor of telecommunications at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said if the TRA were to grant AT&T’s petition, prices for local phone service would go up.

Quoted: Barry Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said third-party ad campaigns can have an effect on voters.

Quoted: Palin is an easy target for some of these efforts, given some of the gaffes she produced early on in her candidacy, said Dietram Scheufele, professor of life sciences communication, journalism and mass communications at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a member of the American Political Science Association.

With only 16 days until the presidential election, many political analysts are polling and pooling information to predict a probable outcome.

On Friday morning, political science professors Christopher Wlezien and Charles Franklin, from Temple University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, gave a seminar in DuSable Hall on political forecasting.

When the candidates spared on the issue of negative campaign ads during Wednesday night’s debate, it was University of Wisconsin research that was cited. Barry Burden is a professor of Political Science at U-W and a member of the Wisconsin Advertising Project. Wisc Ads tracks political ads in over 100 television markets. (Third item, audio.)

“Despite his past, most would describe his educational research as pretty mainstream,” Simone Schweber, a UW-Madison education professor, said of Ayers, now a University of Illinois-Chicago education professor.

Quoted: Pam Oliver, a UW-Madison professor of sociology who has long studied the racial disparity in Wisconsin’s criminal justice system.