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Click here to view the complete E-Separation Solutions newsletter from February 25, 2014.

This Monday morning session will be presided over by Timothy A. Policke of BWXs Technologies.

This Monday morning session will be presided over by Milton L. Lee of Brigham Young University, who also arranged the session.

This Wednesday afternoon session will be presided over by Susan S. Marine of Miami University Middletown.

LCGC, the industry's leading and most-recognized resource for chromatographers, is proud to announce the winners of the 7th Annual Lifetime Achievement and Emerging Leader in Chromatography Awards.

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Click here to view the full European E-newsletter from February 20 2014.

US scientists have developed a new method for an emerging synthetic opioid associated with increased health risks and deaths.

Daniel W. Armstrong, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Texas Arlington in Texas (USA) is to receive the 2014 American Chemical Society Award in Separations Science and Technology. This is the second time this year that the ACS has recognized the work of Armstrong – in August last year he was selected to join the ACS Class of Fellows 2013.

The Purdue Research Foundation (Indiana, USA) has awarded $150,000 in investment to two companies that have licensed Purdue University Innovations, Telos Discovery Systems Inc. and bioVidria Inc. The investment is from the Emerging Innovations Fund that was setup in 2008 to accelerate the commercialization of early stage technologies in the Purdue community.

Incognito investigates if changing the carrier gas really requires a full method revalidation.

Daniel W. Armstrong, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Texas Arlington in Texas (USA) is to receive the 2014 American Chemical Society Award in Separations Science and Technology. This is the second time this year that the ACS has recognized the work of Armstrong – in August last year he was selected to join the ACS Class of Fellows 2013.

Surrogates, Internal Standards, Isotopically labelled Standards, External Standards, Calibrants, QC Samples etc. etc. - our working lives are littered with checks to ensure that our instruments are giving us the correct results. And rightly so. But do we always use these checks correctly? Do we know what we are checking and why? Indeed, do we know how to design methods/procedures which employ a valid checking regime, often referred to as a Quality System? Let's find out.

Chris Reddy from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) spoke to The Column about the role of chromatography in the ongoing environmental analysis of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

The Purdue Research Foundation (Indiana, USA) has awarded $150,000 in investment to two companies that have licensed Purdue University Innovations, Telos Discovery Systems Inc. and bioVidria Inc. The investment is from the Emerging Innovations Fund that was setup in 2008 to accelerate the commercialization of early stage technologies in the Purdue community.

The detection and quantitation of allergens in complex cosmetics extracts using two-dimensional gas chromatography?time-of-flight mass spectrometry (GC?GC?TOF-MS) is described.

Chris Reddy from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) spoke to Alasdair Matheson of The Column about the role of chromatography in the ongoing environmental analysis of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, how GC×GC works in practice, and why this oil spill led to the return of thin layer chromatography (TLC) to his laboratory.

The hills will be alive with the sound of chromatography when the 30th International Symposium on Chromatography (ISC 2014) takes place from 14–18 September 2014 in Salzburg, Austria.

The detection and quantitation of allergens in complex cosmetics extracts using two-dimensional gas chromatography–time-of-flight mass spectrometry (GC×GC–TOF-MS) is described. In particular, variable-energy electron ionization is shown to enhance both the sensitivity and selectivity of analyses by generating mass spectra containing structurally significant fragment ions with an improved molecular ion signal.

Incognito investigates if changing the carrier gas really requires a full method revalidation.

Click the title above to open The Column February 20, 2014 North American issue, Volume 10, Number 3, in an interactive PDF format.

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Everyone loves a list. At least, the LCGC editorial team does! LCGC?s biggest stories of the year show just how varied the world of chromatography is. From Excel modeling to evaluating a calibration curve, from trends in sample preparation to poor resolution and sample recovery in UHPLC ? these popular pieces stand for their technical know-how, unique insight, and perspective.

Thermo Fisher Scientific (California, USA) has completed its acquisition of Life Technologies Corporation for $13.6 billion, following receipt of all required regulatory approval. Thermo Fisher has now established a new segment, Life Science Solutions that will be headed by Mark Stevenson, who served as CEO of Life Technologies.

Internal standards are an important tool of analytical chemists. Mary Ellen McNally offers advice for how to introduce an internal standard and how to avoid common errors.