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Given the excitement surrounding the “green rush,” it is worth stepping back to examine the trends and nuances of the cannabis testing environment.

Analyzing Trends of the Cannabis Testing Market

Our annual LCGC salary survey takes a look at employment conditions, salary, benefits, and other workplace concerns affecting scientists and technicians working in the chromatography and separation sciences field, and assesses where things stand after more than 18 months since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

LCGC Employment and Salary Survey 2021: A Year of Recovery—Pandemic, Back to the Office, Economic Changes, Hybrid Meetings, and More

In this month’s blog, we provide information about the Subdivision on Chromatography and Separations Chemistry (SCSC) of the Analytical Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS), sharing our main goals and introducing our newly appointed executive board members.

The LCGC Blog: ACS SCSC: What We Do and Who We Are 

Is there a secret formula to getting hired into a pharmaceutical analytical chemistry group? What skills are prized above all others?

The LCGC Blog: What I am Looking for When Hiring a Candidate: One Pharmaceutical Analytical Chemist’s Perspective 

Kevin A. Schug is a Full Professor and Shimadzu Distinguished Professor of Analytical Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at The University of Texas (UT) at Arlington. He joined the faculty at UT Arlington in 2005 after completing a Ph.D. in Chemistry at Virginia Tech under the direction of Prof. Harold M. McNair and a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Vienna under Prof. Wolfgang Lindner. Research in the Schug group spans fundamental and applied areas of separation science and mass spectrometry. Schug was named the LCGC Emerging Leader in Chromatography in 2009, and most recently has been named the 2012 American Chemical Society Division of Analytical Chemistry Young Investigator in Separation Science awardee.

In April 2020, on the heels of the pandemic shutdown, the price of crude oil fell to a negative value for the first time ever. The shutdown hit many oil and gas companies hard. But while companies lick their wounds and decide their next moves, an important concept called environmental and social corporate governance (ESG) has come greater into focus.

The LCGC Blog: Environmental and Social Governance (ESG) in the Hydrocarbon Processing Industry (HPI) is an Opportunity for Industrial–Academic Partnerships

The separation science community is full of talented, productive, and innovative researchers of all genders, from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds, working around the globe in academia and industry. Our awards should reflect this. It is one thing to say this. It is another thing to do it. But there are steps we can each take to ensure that our awards showcase the full range of separation science talent.

The LCGC Blog: Recognizing Excellence in Separation Science Wherever It’s Found

In addition to analyzing salary trends, the 2020 edition of our annual survey of separation scientists expands its view to focus on broader issues, such as job security, professional concerns and challenges (especially in the era of COVID), workplace discrimination, and the outlook for 2021 and beyond.

2020 Employment and Salary Survey: COVID-19, Work from Home, Virtual Meetings, and Social Distancing

The Eastern Analytical Symposium has gone virtual for 2020, making it easy for everyone to attend. We highlight a few of the talks and innovative sessions that you won’t want to miss.

Chromatography Advances at Virtual EAS 2020

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Current Trends in Chiral Separations

The HPLC symposium series is recognized as “the forum” where new developments in liquid phase separations and their hyphenation to mass spectrometry (MS) for the analysis of (bio)pharmaceutical compounds and their metabolites are presented.

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