Study Chemistry at King's

Chemistry inspires curiosity by revealing the secrets of life's basic building blocks. Visualizing, documenting, and interacting with the molecular world opens up new opportunities to understand and bring healing to our hurting world.

Inside this program

Reveal Hidden Worlds

Work alongside your professors as you discover how subatomic particles and their interactions reveal the fingerprints of our Creator.

Experience Hands-On Learning

A highly experiential and research-rich program prepares you for industry careers, graduate study, and professional programs. Field trips and lab experiments encourage analysis, problem-solving, and mathematical abilities that will serve you in any endeavor.

Research and Laboratory Facilities

Chemistry students enjoy fully-outfitted teaching and research laboratories.

Laboratories include the following:

  • Two 24-station chemistry labs
  • Research project lab
  • Instrument and research lab
  • Science machine shop

Highly-specialized instruments and equipment such as a Cary 50 UV-Vis spectrophotometer, a Nicolet Impact 400 FTIR spectrometer, the Varian SpectraAA 55 atomic absorption spectrometer, and others are available for student use.

Professional Chemist (P.Chem.) Designation

King's four-year chemistry degree is nationally-accredited by the Chemical Institute of Canada and may qualify graduates for designation in Alberta as a Professional Chemist (P.Chem).

Research Profiles

Mahaffy, P. G.; Matlin, S.A; "Systems thinking to educate about the molecular basis of sustainability" L’ actualité chimique, N° 446, pp. 47-49 (Dec 2019,

Featured in International Union of Pure & Applied Chemistry 100 stories for their Centenial.  IUPAC 100 Stories.

Lamer T, van Belkum MJ, Wijewardane A, Chiorean S, Martin?Visscher LA, Vederas JC. 2022. "SPI “sandwich”: Combined SUMO?Peptide?Intein expression system and isolation procedure for improved stability and yield of peptides." Protein Sci 31:e4316. DOI: 1

Recombinant peptide production in Escherichia coli is often accomplished through cloning and expression of a fusion protein. The fusion protein partner generally has two requirements: (a) it contains an affinity tag to assist with purification and (b) it can be cleaved off to leave only the desired peptide sequence behind.

Britton AP, Visser KA, Ongenae VMA, Zhang P, Wassink H, Doerksen TA, Welke CA, Lynch KH, van Belkum MJ, Dennis JJ, Yang X, Claessen D, Briegel A, Martin-Visscher LA. 2023. "Characterization of Bacteriophage cd2, a Siphophage Infecting Carnobacterium diver

Carnobacterium divergens is frequently isolated from natural environments and is a predominant species found in refrigerated foods, particularly meat, seafood and dairy. While there is substantial interest in using C. divergens as biopreservatives and/or probiotics, some strains are known to be fish pathogens, and the uncontrolled growth of C. divergens has been associated with food spoilage.

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