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The editors of LCGC International explore how chemists can set themselves apart in an ever-competitive job market, highlighting the latest data in salary and employment statistics.

In this edition of The LCGC Blog, André Striegel provides advice on how to prepare for your first talk or presentation at a scientific conference.

LCGC International spoke to Jeffrey Zonderman, Senior Vice President of Bruker Applied MS, about current trends in mass spectometry and moving to a “chromatography-free” world.

On July 11th, the American Chemical Society will hold a virtual networking session about career pathways for aspiring scientists.

American researchers are moving their laboratories more frequently than ever before. Here’s how that process works, according to scientists who have done it.

Analytical chemists often aren’t recognized for their contributions to the scientific community, authors of a recent article argue.

This year’s conference highlighted how analytical scientists are exchanging research to tackle some of the world’s most critical problems.

The laboratory is the birthplace of scientific innovation and its becoming even more important as scientists work to address some of the world’s most difficult problems.

A concise guide to optimizing chemical procurement.

Extraction technology is a rapidly growing sect in separation science, and ExTech remains the largest conference dedicated to discussing and sharing research done in this field.

The fallout from the Covid-19 global pandemic remains in progress in 2023. Because of the current ongoing global recession, we anticipated that many workers would be concerned about their current jobs and how to adjust to rising inflation. In this year’s LCGC Salary Survey, we sought to explore these topics.

For this year’s career issue, LCGC North America teamed up with the American Chemical Society Subdivision on Chromatography and Separations Chemistry to ask the analytical chemistry community what skills new employees in the field need to succeed. In this report, we analyze the survey results and explore how they can inform the future of analytical chemistry curriculum development.

A great deal has changed in the relationship between employers and the separation scientists who work for them. What does this change mean for both parties?

Since 2008, the Chinese American Chromatography Association (CACA) has hosted career development workshops at Pittcon, featuring over 65 well-established pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and contract research organizations, and academia professionals. This year’s workshop featured five speakers, all of whom shared valuable insights and advice for individuals at different stages of their careers, including graduate students, early-career professionals, high-level managers, and aspiring entrepreneurs.

Separation scientists could strengthen their scientific work by practicing skills commonly associated with the liberal arts.

Understanding separation principles is the key to success. Here's why.

Increasing inclusivity and equity in chemistry will require a positive instructor mindset, as well as invention, exploration, and trials.

Given that artificial intelligence (AI) seems to be on everyone’s mind, it’s worth pausing to look at how AI works, and how it can fit into analytical chemistry.

Undergraduate research and a job or jobs are not the same as an internship. Here's why.

This year's LCGC North America salary and employment survey examines the current landscape of the separation science field through the lens of workers.

Increased diversity in the workplace brings broader perspectives and innovation. Yet many chemical industries, including separation science, lack the diversity that is representative of the population. To fix this problem, we must start at the beginning of the pipeline.

As we celebrate the 40th year of LCGC, we are thinking not about the past, but about the future.

In honor of LCGC’s 40th year, we asked leading chromatographers to share their perspectives on current challenges and their visions for the future, looking at fundamentals of the techniques as well as the impact of analytical developments in important areas like medical research, pharmaceutical development, and environmental studies. Here’s what they said.

The recruitment of young, talented entrepreneurs within academia and industry is needed to tackle many of the challenges that exist today and that will emerge tomorrow.

Small metabolic molecules often are chiral and can play important roles in regulating a variety of biological functions, occasionally providing information about the presence and progression of disease.

Although smaller advances have been made in the past decades, the question remains whether further extending operating pressure and decreasing particle size remains a feasible approach, or whether drastically novel approaches are required.

The fundamental mechanisms of band broadening are usually introduced to students through the van Deemter equation. Dimensional analysis of this equation can give physical meaning to the equation coefficients and enhance our understanding relative to qualitative descriptions. This approach can also guide improvements to future liquid chromatography (LC) column designs.

This article provides an overview of the development and current status of comparative analysis for GC×GC–TOF-MS data and how key limitations can be overcome with a novel tile-based pairwise analysis method.

The lack of proper method validation has important implications in blood alcohol concentration (BAC) determinations. We examine this issue, addressing the importance of gas chromatography (GC) for BAC determination, why certain validation procedures are important, and why accreditation bodies need to step up their game.

Further miniaturization of separations will greatly extend the reach of single-cell proteomics, metabolomics, and lipidomics, but key challenges in instrumentation, column technology, and ionization sources must be addressed.