About
The Department of Chemistry has 21 professors, including 5 who are聽cross-appointed from other departments; 7 emeritus professors, 15聽adjunct聽professors, 8 instructors, 13 technical/administrative staff聽and around 70 聽graduate students carrying out research towards their聽MSc and PhD degrees. In聽addition, the department welcomes annually聽visiting scientists, postdoctoral researchers and research associates, and聽summer research assistants.
The Department offers about 30 undergraduate聽chemistry classes taken by about 4,000 students per year. Typically, there聽are 15 students registered in聽Honours and Combined Honours programs聽and a larger number in the Majors program.
The聽Department is proud of both its teaching and its research, activities that聽are closely intertwined. Highlights include the computer-aided learning聽laboratory, the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Centre, the Trace聽Analysis Research Centre, the Mass Spectrometry Laboratory and many other聽specialized聽facilities. The Department carries out research in all聽areas of chemistry: analytical, bio-organic, computational, environmental,聽inorganic, materials,聽organic, physical and theoretical.
Department History
The history of our Department isn't just about bricks and mortar, classes added and dropped, but the personal reflections of the people who worked there. Because of this, we'd like to highlight the personal reflections of retired professors:
Schools and Community
With Chemistry being the Central Science, the pivotal link between life sciences such as neuroscience and physical sciences such as physics, Chemistry plays a part in everything we do all day long. DalChem welcomes school groups and community groups, and has visits and programs available for all.