Student standing in the lab with a lab coat on.

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: Marissa Clapson

Green Chemistry Approaches to Base Metal Catalyst Design: Leveraging a Lewis Acidic
Secondary Coordination Sphere for Small Molecule Activation

Dr. Marissa Clapson
Assistant Professor
University of Prince Edward Island

Tuesday, November 11, 2025
11:00 a.m.

In-person: C2-361

Chemistry Seminar Series: Elizabeth R. Gillies

Self-immolative polymers: Designing, synthesizing, and applying polymers that fall apart

Elizabeth R. Gillies
Professor, Department of Chemistry; Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
University of Western Ontario

Tuesday, November 18, 2025
11:00 a.m.

In-person: C2-361