Fralin Fiddler - November 2025

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Across
  1. 5. “Type” of carbon dioxide VT alum Joe DeSimone used in his first company
  2. 7. Things that should not be here, or there, or anywhere
  3. 11. VT Department that hired first female faculty member
  4. 12. Swedish chemist who coined “protein” name
  5. 13. Year VT graduate enrollment stood at 1 student
  6. 14. Humans see more shades of this than anything else
  7. 15. First Black student at VT awarded a PhD (in Fisheries and Wildlife)
  8. 16. “Mother” of all DNA
  9. 17. “XXXXXXXXXX” is not futile, it is voltage divided by current
Down
  1. 1. FLSI outreach program impacting almost 1M K-12 students since 1993
  2. 2. Cellular component containing ~30% proteins by weight
  3. 3. Country with highest cancer rate and home to Center for Ecosystem Forecasting major collaborators
  4. 4. First director of the Fralin Biotechnology Center
  5. 6. Type of mathematical similarity crucial to artificial intelligence/machine learning
  6. 8. What Scharf and Hsu at VT like to study
  7. 9. US constitution signer and first to report calming effect of “lipids” on water waves
  8. 10. Mathematical object or disease transmitter
  9. 13. Ionization method for mass spectrometry invented by VCU faculty member