What's Happening in Chemistry
Featured News
Not a D-rop wasted
October 16, 2025
Chemistry student collaborates with a deuterium science and innovation company to recycle wastewater.
From a fair in Toronto to a future in Ireland
October 1, 2025
After graduating from Medicinal Chemistry, Emma Ross (BSc '24), attended Trinity College Dublin to pursue a MSc in Pharmaceutical Sciences. The transition to graduate studies felt easy due to the strong academic foundation she built in Science at Waterloo.
Protecting what's above
September 16, 2025
This year’s theme for World Ozone Day, “From Science to Global Action,” reminds us of the ongoing need for data and the subsequent research that results from projects like the Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE) and the significant role it plays in advancing atmospheric science globally.
Green labs bring Science into the twenty-first century
September 10, 2025
If you’ve passed through the Earth Sciences and Chemistry building (ESC) in the last two years, you may have noticed the work being done on the third-floor labs. This renovation is bringing the university a step closer to its net-zero carbon goals while ushering Science at Waterloo into the twenty-first century.
Featured Events
Chemistry Seminar Series: David Da Yong Chen
Mass spectrometry based faster and more accurate analytical platform for biomolecules characterization
David Da Yong Chen
Department of Chemistry
University of British Columbia
Monday, December 2, 2025
11:00 a.m.
In-person: C2-361
Chemistry Seminar Series: Kirill Kovnir
Synthesis of metal pnictides and exploration of their thermoelectric and catalytic potential
Kirill Kovnir
Professor, Department of Chemistry
Iowa State University
Monday, December 8, 2025
10:00 a.m.
In-person: C2-361