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.
Third-year Chemical Engineering student Amy Qin and her team's virtual reality game was a big winner at the MIT reality hack.
Professor Tizazu Mekonnen recently shared his expertise in creating biodegradable polymers in a CTV news report on CTK Bio Canada. CTK Bio Canada is a company whose mission is to create bioplastics with waste by-products to combat climate change.
On January 18th, the NSERC CREATE graduate training program, 2D-Mature kicked off. The program focuses on providing a value-added experience for trainees working in the area of scalable 2D materials.
January 27th is International Holocaust Day. Seventy-seven years ago, today the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi concentration camp was liberated. More than a million people’s lives were taken at that camp alone.
In January 2023, Professor Christian Euler joined the Department of Chemical Engineering. Euler brings experience as a founder of a successful biotechnology company, in addition to his research strengths in developing microbial platforms for chemical production.
Professor Zhongwei Chen and his research team continue to advance toward closing the carbon cycle.
Congratulations to Kayli Dale and Jacqueline Hutchings (BASc '20) for making Forbes Magazine's 30 Under 30 list for 2023.