UW Badger Poll data featured in award-winning paper by LSC graduate students and professors

LSC doctoral student Kajsa Dalrymple and professors Dominique Brossard, Dietram Schefeule and Al Gunther, along with graduate student Amy Brecker, win a Top 3 Faculty Paper Award by the Science Communication Interest Group of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication for the paper “Getting citizens involved: How controversial science policy debates stimulates issue participation during a political campaign.” The paper uses data from the UW Badger Poll, a statewide telephone survey. The award was delivered during the August, 2009 meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Convention in Boston.