Fieldstudies of contrails arerare, says David Travisof the Universityof Wisconsin-Whitewater. Mostofourunderstandingof their effects isbased onmodelstudies.
The company started in the temperature-controls business in 1885, two years after its founder, Warren S. Johnson, a professor at the State Normal School in Whitewater, Wisconsin, received a patent for the electric room thermostat.
Mehul Kar, a recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, intends to apply to the accelerator as a funding source for CollegeDesis, his planned online portal for college students of South Asian descent.