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• Professor Woo Soo Kim visits Aga Khan University's ACER and Nelson Mandel African UInstitute of Science and Technology with eleven SFU students for Tanzania Field School, May 2024. News release available here: AKU News, SFU Advancement, NM-AIST, NM-AIST2, SFU News #1, SFU News #2
  
• Professor Woo Soo Kim received SFU Grad Studies' 2023 Award for Excellence in Leadership, March 2024: https://www.sfu.ca/gradstudies/about/awards-excellence/leadership/award-recipients/woosoo-kim.html 
  
• Professor Woo Soo Kim delivered a lecture as part of the President's Lecture Series, focusing on the empowerment of Agritech for enhancing Agriculture and Food Security. The event took place on September 27, 2023. :https://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stories/2023/09/president-s-faculty-lectures-put-spotlight-on-sfu-researchers-ma.html , https://www.sfu.ca/publicsquare/events/2023/woo-soo-kim.html
  
• Professor Woo Soo Kim became a scientific director of BC Centre for Agritech Innovation (BCCAI) March 27, 2023: https://www.sfu.ca/agritech-innovation/news/b-c--centre-for-agritech-innovation-names-new-scientific-directo/
  
• Interview with New Scientist Magazine for the topics of “Chemical sensing Robot Finger”: Robotic hand pokes food and water to tell if they have mercury, February 2, 2023.
• News on 3D printed healthcare sensing robot solutions in March 2021 covered in the media at SFU News; AAAS EurekAlert!; Medical News; TechXplore; ScienceDaily and etc.
• Interview with Humans and Science about 3D printed Origami-based ventilator project in October 2020: https://www.humansandscience.com/post/interview-with-dr-woo-soo-kim.
• Interview with CTV, City TV, and Global News about 3D printed Origami-based ventilator project in September 2020: www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stories/2020/09/portable-3d-printed-ventilators-being-developed-at-sfu.html.
• Interview with Vancouver Sun on June 13, 2020 about 3D PPE Initiative in covid-19: https://vancouversun.com/news/covid-19-sfu-engineer-designs-safer-door-handles.
• Interview with EGBC’s Innovation magazine in the issue of May-June 2020 about 3D PPE Initiative in covid-19: https://user-yinucac.cld.bz/INNOVATION-May-June-2020/20/.
• Interview with VPRI, Dr. Joy Johnson: Change Makers Series about 3D PPE Initiative and covid-19 research activities in my lab, May 12, 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PyrbGHaGEA&t=440s.
• Front Cover Interview with EGBC’s Innovation magazine in the issue of September-October 2019 titled as “Soft Yet Durable Robot”. https://user-yinucac.cld.bz/INNOVATION-Sept-Oct-2019/16/  
• Sensing robot finger news on Advanced Science News 2019: https://www.advancedsciencenews.com/a-robotic-hand-with-a-human-touch/
• News on 3D printed sustainable sensor solutions in February 2019 covered in the media at ScienceDaily; AAAS EurekAlert!; 3D Printing Media Network, and etc.
• Interview with IGM IR4Insidr for the topics of “3D Printing in Industry: Adidas’ Future Craft”, March 20, 2017.
• Interview with Industry Canada for the topic of “Future of 3D Printing for Canadian Manufacturing”, November 2015: A documentary including this interview was released in January 2016.
• Interview with New Scientist Magazine for the topics of “3D Printing’s Future”: 3D printed phones herald world of instant electronic everything, June 22, 2016.
• Interview with YTN Korean broadcasting on the topics of “3D Printing research in Canada”, August 7, 2016.
• Interview with Maclean’s Magazine on the topic of “100 Discoveries That Will Change The World”: Nano-robotics future and on-going nanotechnology research in SFU Mechatronics, July 1, 2013.