Famous Alumni
This company makes a rapid point-of-care system to test for allergic sensitization in the clinic within 30 minutes
Who is Kenota Health?
______ is only skin deep
What is beauty?
The manipulation of matter on an atomic, molecular, and supramolecular scale
Nanotechnology
In 2023, a Canadian biographical comedy-drama film was made about this local company
Who is BlackBerry?
UW professor and Nobel prize winner
Who is Donna Strickland?
This company is making medicated stickers capable of delivering antihistamines and other small molecules to children
Who is Avro Life Sciences?
The deepest part of the ocean
What is Challenger Deep/Mariana's Trench?
The study of primates
This company was charged with massive fraud by the SEC for falsifying the company’s revenue as well as blood-test results
Who is Theranos?
This gene-editing technology is currently in clinical trials to treat β-thalassaemia and sickle-cell disease
What is CRISPR?
This company's sun protection technology was acquired in 2021
Who is Suncayr?
This franchise's series "Deep Space Nine" aired from 1993 to 1999
What is Star Trek?
The study of flags
What is vexillology?
This startup has a Wikipedia page "Controversies involving ____" with over a dozen subsections including "ignoring and evading local regulations", "passenger safety"
Who is Uber?
This telescope recently captured some of the most distant galaxies ever
What is the James Webb telescope?
This company makes a device called OpenSPR for scientists
Who is Nicoya?
The deepest Great Lake
What is Lake Superior?
The study of birds
What is ornithology?
This cryptocurrency exchange collapsed last year following news that they were missing $8B of customer funds
Who is FTX?
Researchers are scrambling to see if they can be the first to create a superconductor at this temperature
What is room temperature?
This company makes single-use bioreactors
Who is Membio?
"'Cause I'm in too deep, and I'm tryin' to keep,
Up above in my head, instead of goin' under", sung by
Who is Sum 41?
The study of trash
What is garbology?
This company's juice making machine failed when customers found you could just squeeze the package without the $400 machine
Who is Juicero?
The world’s first nuclear-waste storage facility is due to begin operating next year in Olkiluoto, an island off the southwest coast of _______
What is Finland?