Scientists Plant Grass-roots Effort For Obama In Final Days Of Contest

摘要

As a graduate student at Iowa State University in Ames, physicist Bernice Durand worked for antiwar candidate Eugene McCarthy in 1968 in his failed bid for the Democratic nomination for U.S. president. Four decades later, the recently retired University of Wisconsin, Madison, professor and administrator has jumped back into the political fray on behalf of Senator Barack Obama. This time around, Durand is using a career's worth of contacts and organizational skills to build an unusual national grass-roots effort, focused on scientific issues, for the Democratic candidate.