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July 2, 2026

LCGC Blog: Reclaiming the Foundations of Separation Science
Caitlin Cain
June 2, 2026

LCGC Blog: Who Will Handle the Data? Training Data Wranglers in Analytical Chemistry
Katelynn Perrault-Uptmor
May 1, 2026

The Slop Era of Chromatography on Social Media
Jim Grinias
April 1, 2026

LCGC Blog: Artificial Intelligence: The Good, The Challenging, and The Terrifying
Kevin Schug
March 2, 2026

The LCGC Blog: No Column to Rule Them All — Making Sense of Metal Speciation with Liquid Chromatography
Hayley Brawley, Alexia Kreinbrink
February 4, 2026

The LCGC Blog: How Industry–Academia Collaboration Shapes the Future of Separation Science
Emanuela Gionfriddo
January 5, 2026

The LCGC Blog: From Gila Monster to Global Phenomenon – The Peptide Revolution
Jonathan Edelman
December 8, 2025

The LCGC Blog: Rewiring the Fundamentals
Jonathan Shackman
November 10, 2025

The LCGC Blog: Updates from the ACS SCSC for the Separation Science Community
Emanuela Gionfriddo
September 29, 2025

The LCGC Blog: Lessons from Lindau
Caitlin Cain
August 25, 2025

The LCGC Blog: Charting My Chemistry Journey—From Undergraduate LC to Industry GC×GC
Lina Mikaliunaite
August 1, 2025

The LCGC Blog: Communicating Science Across Language & Knowledge Barriers
Jim Grinias
July 1, 2025

The LCGC Blog: Avenues of Circumvention and Issues with Cannabis Products: Δ8-THC, THCA Flower, and Forensics Analysis
Zacariah L. Hildenbrand, Melissa Giguere, Kevin A. Schug
June 1, 2025

The LCGC Blog: A Simplified Guide for Weighted Fitting and its Significance in Separation Science
Muhammad Q. Farooq
May 1, 2025

The LCGC Blog: Where Do Macromolecular Separation Scientists Meet?
Andre Striegel
April 1, 2025

The LCGC Blog: Stop and Smell the Geraniol
Amber Hupp
March 1, 2025

The LCGC Blog: Overcoming “Separation Anxiety” – Accessible Resources to Learn Chromatography and Separation Chemistry
Emanuela Gionfriddo
February 1, 2025

The LCGC Blog: Looking for Love in all the Wrong Mobile Phases
Jonnie Shackman
January 3, 2025

The LCGC Blog: Reunifying Separation Science
Caitlin Cain
December 2, 2024

The LCGC Blog: Teaching Separations to the Next Generation of Instrumentalists
Katelynn Perrault Uptmor
November 1, 2024

The LCGC Blog: Historical (Analytical) Chemistry Landmarks
Jim Grinias
October 1, 2024

The LCGC Blog: Molecular Feature Generation for Machine Learning in Analytical Measurements
Kevin Schug
September 3, 2024

The LCGC Blog: Supercritical Fluid Chromatography: A Workhorse in Drug Discovery
Muhammad Q. Farooq
August 1, 2024

The LCGC Blog: So, You’re Giving Your First Talk
André M. Striegel
July 1, 2024

The LCGC Blog: Career Advice for Aspiring Academics
Amber Hupp
June 3, 2024

The LCGC Blog: Celebrating Women in Separation Chemistry at Pittcon 2024
Emanuela Gionfriddo
May 1, 2024

The LCGC Blog: Chromatographers and Chromatography Users Revisited
Jonathan Shackman
April 2, 2024

The LCGC Blog: Call for Abstracts! The 43rd Annual International Symposium and Exhibit on the Separation, Purification, and Characterization of Biologically Important Molecules!
Jonathan Edelman
March 1, 2024

The LCGC Blog: Moving Beyond Minimum Specs to Set Up Your Chromatography Data Workstation
Katelynn Perrault Uptmor & James Harynuk
February 1, 2024

The LCGC Blog: Your 70:20:10 Development Plan for Chromatographers
Kaitlin M. Grinias
January 5, 2024

The LCGC Blog, Paying it Forward: Perspectives from a Fulbright–Palacky Distinguished Scholar
Kevin Schug
November 20, 2023

The LCGC Blog: Essential Interview and Job Preparation Tips for Analytical Chemistry Graduate Students
Muhammad Q. Farooq
November 1, 2023

The LCGC Blog: So, You’re Attending Your First Meeting. What Can You Expect?
Andre Striegel
September 12, 2023

The LCGC Blog: Secrets Revealed: Landing a Career as a Separation Scientist
Amber Hupp & Katelynn Perrault Uptmor
August 15, 2023

The LCGC Blog: Are You Sick of Hearing About ChatGPT?
Petr Vozka
August 4, 2023

The LCGC Blog: ExTech 2023, Celebrating 25 Years of Innovation in Extraction Technologies
Emanuela Gionfriddo
July 1, 2023

The LCGC Blog: Resolving Resolution
Jonathan Shackman
June 28, 2023

The LCGC Blog: How Software Is Defining the New Era of Laboratory Science
Jonathan Edelman
May 2, 2023

The LCGC Blog: Forensics Laboratories Underassess Uncertainty in Blood Alcohol Determinations
Kevin Schug & Zachariah Hildenbrand
April 3, 2023

The LCGC Blog: Becoming an AI Granddaddy
Mark Hayes
January 30, 2023

The LCGC Blog: In Praise of Internships – Undergraduate and Graduate
André M. Striegel
January 3, 2023

The LCGC Blog: GC×GC…Why Bother?
Katelynn Perrault
September 27, 2022

The LCGC Blog: Remember the First Time
Jonathan Shackman
August 25, 2022

The LCGC Blog: Efforts to Increase Diversity and Equity in Introductory Chemistry
Amber Hupp
July 27, 2022

The LCGC Blog: The Return of the HPLC Conference
Jim Grinias
June 23, 2022

The LCGC Blog: Working with Data Scientists to Improve On-line Chemical Extraction and Analysis
Kevin Schug
May 24, 2022

The LCGC Blog: Curing My Personal Ignorance, One Day at a Time
Mark Hayes
May 4, 2022

The LCGC Blog: Sample Preparation by Electric Field-Assisted Extraction
Han Chen & Robbyn Anand
March 30, 2022

The LCGC Blog: Whence the Next Generation of Macromolecular Separations Scientists?
André Striegel
February 23, 2022

The LCGC Blog: She Separates—The Female Voices of Separation Science
Kate Perrault
January 25, 2022

The LCGC Blog: Mentorship in the Time of COVID-19: Finding the Silver Lining and Announcing ACS SCSC Initiatives
Emanuela Gionfriddo
January 6, 2022

The LCGC Blog: Laboratory Accreditation is Not a Cloak of Infallibility
Kevin Schug & Zachariah Hildebrand
November 30, 2021

The LCGC Blog: ACS SCSC: What We Do and Who We Are
Amber Hupp
November 1, 2021

The LCGC Blog: Analyzing Trends of the Cannabis Testing Market
Jonathan Edelman
October 5, 2021

The LCGC Blog: Don’t Fear the Automation
Jonathan Shackman
August 30, 2021

The LCGC Blog: Full Method Validation Is Still a Glaring Deficiency in Many Forensics Laboratories
Kevin A. Schug
August 2, 2021

The LCGC Blog: Polymers, Macromolecules, and Nanomaterials in the Separation Science Curriculum
Michelle L. Kovarik
June 24, 2021

The LCGC Blog: The Future of Separations Science: Goodbye Old Friends
Mark A. Hayes
May 26, 2021

The LCGC Blog: To Prep or Not to Prep? That is the Question…
Emanuela Gionfriddo
May 4, 2021

The LCGC Blog: The Analytical Arsenal for Point Source Attribution
Zacariah L. Hildenbrand & Kevin A. Schug
March 30, 2021

The LCGC Blog: What I am Looking for When Hiring a Candidate: One Pharmaceutical Analytical Chemist’s Perspective
Jonathan Shackman
February 24, 2021

The LCGC Blog: Controlling Retention Time Drift in Industrial Chromatography
Brian Rohrback
February 1, 2021

The LCGC Blog: Digging Deeper into the History of HPLC: Elmar Piel
James Grinias with Ron Majors
January 4, 2021

The LCGC Blog: Environmental and Social Governance (ESG) in the Hydrocarbon Processing Industry (HPI) is an Opportunity for Industrial–Academic Partnerships
Kevin A. Schug
December 7, 2020

Recognizing Excellence in Separation Science Wherever It’s Found
Michelle L. Kovarik
September 30, 2020

Does the Paper in the Column Box Mean Anything Anymore?
Jonathan Shackman
September 2, 2020

Miniaturized Chromatography—The Next Big Idea
Jonathan Edelman
August 11, 2020

Chromatography Resources for Online Learning
Amber Hupp
June 26, 2020

The Lost Art of Fundamental Electronics in Analytical Chemistry
James P. Grinias
June 1, 2020

Experiential Learning Interrupted: Reflecting on Teaching Chromatography During a Pandemic
Katelynn A. Perrault
May 4, 2020

Last Dance, for a While—Time to Share the Wealth
Kevin A. Schug: May 4, 2020

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