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The 2014 Lifetime Achievement in Chromatography Award is granted to Fred E. Regnier. Here we chart his career and accomplishments.

Mohamed Abdel-Rehim, professor of analytical chemistry at Stockholm University in Stockholm, Sweden, spoke to Bethany Degg of The Column about a novel approach to determine drug intake using saliva samples.

An excerpt from LCGC's e-learning tutorial on core–shell particles for HPLC at CHROMacademy.com

Benzodiazepines are extensively misused as a result of their hypnotic-sedative properties and relative availability, and they are often used in combination with other drugs, which can result in life-threatening conditions. This article presents a SPE and LC–MS method for the analysis of benzodiazepines in synthetic urine samples.

Click the title above to open The Column May 12, 2014 North American issue, Volume 10, Number 8, in an interactive PDF format.

Click the title above to open The Column May 12, 2014 Europe & Asia issue, Volume 10, Number 8, in an interactive PDF format.

We all make mistakes. The first step to correcting them is recognizing them, and learning the right way to do things. Merlin Bicking talks about two common errors, and how to avoid them.

Click here to view the complete E-Separation Solutions newsletter from May 8, 2014.

Solid-phase extraction (SPE) is a versatile and reliable technique that is often used for sample cleanup and concentration. Kevin Schug offers some insight about SPE basics and achieving successful extractions.

Peak Scientific (Inchinnan, Scotland) has been awarded a 2014 Queen?s Award for Enterprise in International Trade decreed by Her Majesty The Queen of Great Britain, on the recommendation of the Prime Minister, David Cameron. The awards are announced each year on the Queen?s birthday, 21 April.

Steroid testing is commonly associated with sports doping testing to monitor athletes for performance-enhancing compounds, but it also important in the food industry for consumer safety. A new method using high-temperature liquid chromatography with photodiode detection and isotope ratio mass spectrometry (HT?LC?PDA?IRMS) that does not require sample derivatization and uses water as the eluent has been developed by scientists at the University of Duisberg-Essen in Essen, Germany.1

This Monday afternoon session will be chaired by Koji Otsuka of Kyoto University, in Japan.

In today?s program, Ron Majors of LCGC, Fabrice Gritti of the University of Tennessee, and David S. Bell of Supelco/Sigma-Aldrich will each present a free tutorial session.

In today?s free tutorials, several very practical topics will be covered, including theoretical and practical aspects of UHPLC, the role of dwell volume in UHPLC method transfer, and how regulations are changing the role of separation sciences

Fabrice Gritti of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee, will preside over this Tuesday morning session.

Jonathan Sweedler of the University of Illinois in Champaign, Illinois, will chair this Monday morning session.

Past, present, and future developments of supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) are outlined. New vendor activity in terms of automation and hyphenation with chromatographic separations is discussed.

This article introduces some of the concepts behind green chemistry, covering solvent selection and extraction techniques.

The current status of superheated water extraction is reviewed, and the extraction methods, applications, and problems encountered are discussed.

Current advances in commercial pressurized-fluid extraction (PFE) instrumentation are discussed, along with the advantages of performing PFE prior to chromatographic analysis.

The author reviews the automation capabilities available, and some practical considerations to take into account when choosing to automate some or all of the sample preparation and handling steps that must be done before analysis.

This month's "LC Troubleshooting" instalment looks at two reader-submitted questions regarding method calibration.

Microwave-accelerated extraction (MAE) is described and evaluated. The latest enhancements to this technology are discussed from a hardware and applications perspective.

The session chair for this Wednesday afternoon session is Chao Yan of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China). The session will be held in room HEC-C in the Hilton Exhibition Center on the second floor of the Hilton, beginning at 1:30 p.m.

Emily Hilder of the University of Tasmania (Australia) - and LCGC Editorial Advisory Board member - will chair this Monday morning session in room HEC-A, Hilton Exhibition Center (second floor of the Hilton). The session will begin at 9:00 a.m.

This Wednesday afternoon session will cover several interesting ways that LC?MS techniques are applied to biological applications. This session will begin at 1:30 p.m. and conclude at 3:00 p.m. Sarah Trimpin of Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan will chair the session.

This Tuesday morning session will cover some new advances in ultra-high pressure liquid chromatography (UHPLC). The session will start at 8:30 a.m. and conclude around 10:00 a.m. The session will be chaired by Monika Dittmann of Agilent Technologies in Germany.

This Tuesday afternoon session will be chaired by Martin Gilar of Waters Corporation (Milford, Massachusetts) and will be held in room HEC-A of the Hilton Exhibition Center on the second floor of the Hilton. The symposium will begin at 1:30 p.m. with the presentation of the Uwe Neue Award.