Author: jplucas

Noted: “States vary slightly by how they define their pavement conditions,” said Hussain Bahia, director of the Modified Asphalt Research Center at the University of Wisconsin, in an email.

Noted: In 1957, researchers at the University of Wisconsin discovered a molecule that helps muscle cells generate energy. Today, that molecule is commonly known as coenzyme Q10.

Quoted: Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at University of Wisconsin-Madison, called the agreement a positive step for U.S. farmers, but not groundbreaking.

Noted: “If the patient thinks it’s important, it’s important,” says Dr. Valerie Gilchrist, chair of the department of family medicine at the University of Wisconsin who has written about screening for sexual violence in primary care.

Noted: After nearly three decades, Americans aren’t taking accusations of sexual misconduct by potential Supreme Court justices more seriously. “The public has not moved on that one in 27 years,” concluded Barry Burden, University of Wisconsin Madison political science professor and Elections Research Center Director.

Noted: Economist Hart Posen of the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison said Johnson can now speed up its own plans for the consumer market because Lux already has a retail presence Johnson Controls would need time to develop from the ground up.

Noted: In neighboring Wisconsin, agriculture represents only about 1 percent of the $287 billion economy. Still, in a state that brands itself “America’s dairyland” on car license plates, farmers have political clout. They were “already on edge because of the potential collapse of Nafta,” says Jon Pevehouse, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. “When you put China tariffs on top of that, there’s a lot of unease.”

Noted: University of Wisconsin-Madison sociologist Eric Grodsky traces the problem, and the solutions, of the achievement gap back to kindergarten.

Noted: The idea of selling access to our most personal information is not such a departure in an era in which we already implicitly “monetize our privacy in many ways”—for example, by effectively exchanging our browsing and search behaviors for access to “free” websites, notes Alta Charo, a bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin Law School in Madison. In contrast to such largely hidden exchanges, emerging blockchain-based platforms could provide people “potentially more opportunities to have very specific control over what’s given out and in what specific form.”

A University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism professor says in the partisan times we live in, it’s important for news consumers to look at political news stories from a less partisan viewpoint.

Noted: Patrick Iber, now an assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said he views Kavanaugh’s nomination as an adjudication of sorts of whether American elites can be held accountable for their actions.

Noted: Dr. Jerlando F. L. Jackson, chairman of the Grand Boulé Social Action Committee said that Vincent’s work as vice president for diversity and community engagement at the University of Texas at Austin “transformed how the institution prioritized diversity and community engagement, an in turn, provided a model for the rest of higher education.”

Noted: Karen Schloss, head of the Visual Reasoning Lab at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, has advice for anyone trying to absorb this complicated information: “Be aware of the category boundaries in colors that we can see and take a moment to think about what the numbers represent, rather than making a quick judgment that, for example, ‘I’m in this color region so I don’t need to worry about this storm.’”

Noted: Steve Kantrowitz, a Yale classmate who is now a history professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, questioned that assertion. He wrote on Twitter Tuesday morning, “Perhaps Brett Kavanaugh was a virgin for many years after high school. But he claimed otherwise in a conversation with me during our freshman year in Lawrance Hall at Yale, in the living room of my suite.”