Past Events

A seminar will be presented by Henry Lim entitled "DFT Investigation of Ammonia Oxidation Reaction on Ceria."

We are proceeding with the oral examination (defence) of PhD. CHEM Andrew Finlay on Thursday November 13, 2025 @ 2:30 pm EST IN-PERSON, MACN 101 (Main Link Room).  PhD Thesis Title: Expanding the theory and applications of carbon dioxide and other modifier gases in differential mobility spectrometry.

A seminar will be presented by Evan Zakaria entitled "Reduction-Mediated Cleavable Linker for Tandem Oligonucleotide Synthesis Applications."

A seminar will be presented by Haven Camillo entitled, "Hydrothermal Phosphorylation of Nucleosides."

Prof. Adam Damry from the University of Ottawa will present a seminar entitled "Proteins on the edge: Harnessing biochemistry at heterogeneous interfaces" on Thursday, September 25 at 9:30 AM in MACN. See attached for seminar abstract. Prof. Damry is visiting us as part of a recruitment visit and will have time to meet with undergraduates interested in pursuing a graduate degree in chemistry/biochemistry directly following his seminar, at 10:30 AM.  Coffee and timbits will be served.

We are proceeding with the oral examination (defence) of MSc. CHEM Sebastian Montoya Pareja on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @ 3:00 pm EST IN-PERSON, MACN 101 (Main Link Room). MSc Thesis Title: Conversion of Peracetylated Sugars by Hydrodeoxygenation Reactions using a Tandem Catalysis System Comprised of Rare-Earth Metal Triflates and Hydrogenating Metal Catalysts.

We are proceeding with the oral examination (defence) of MSc. CHEM Ruzhen Xu on Monday September 8, 2025 @ 9:30 am EST IN-PERSON, MACN 203 (Mini Link Room). MSc Thesis Title: Effects of Hydrogen Uptake and Release on Graphene Oxide-Based Nanomaterials.

An opportunity for members of the Deptartment of Chemistry to connect with incoming chemistry graduate students. 

CHEM*7940 seminar entitled: "Studying Degradation in the Nucelar Industry Using Muon Techniques"

We are excited to announce the 3rd Annual ECS Guelph Young Researcher Symposium, hosted by the Electrochemical Society (ECS) University of Guelph Student Chapter and the Electrochemical Technology Centre. The event will take place on August 7, 2025.   This year’s symposium will feature keynote lectures from the following distinguished speakers: