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International Women's Day has been observed in some ways since 1908 when the international suffragette movement began the fight to gain the right for women to vote. In 1975 the day was officially recognized for the first time by the United Nations and celebrated widely.

With the addition of new faculty, Professors Yilan Liu, Elisabeth Prince, and Christian Euler, to an already established group, the Department of Chemical Engineering now has the largest number of metabolic engineers in Canada. This is significant because when people think about our dependency on fossil fuels, we think about energy, not realizing that our dependency goes much deeper than that.

A tiny robot that could one day help doctors perform surgery was inspired by the incredible gripping ability of geckos and the efficient locomotion of inchworms.

The new technology, developed by Chemical Engineers at the University of Waterloo, utilizes ultraviolet (UV) light and magnetic force to move a long, thin robot on any surface, even up walls and across ceilings.