University of Waterloo Faculty of Science

Science faculty of the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, part of a university founded in 1957 and known for its co-operative education model. Made up of the School of Pharmacy at Kitchener, the School of Optometry and Vision Science and departments of chemistry, biology, earth and environmental sciences and physics and astronomy, it teaches the doctor of pharmacy and optometry degrees together with science degrees, and carries out research in medicinal and analytical chemistry, pharmaceutical sciences and vision science with its own laboratories and a teaching pharmacy.