LABORATORY NEWS
Save the Date
100th Anniversary Open House
and Celebration at our laboratory
Friday November 1, 2024
11-3pm
Lunch at noon
We are celebrating our 100-year anniversary! Each of our courses this year will feature a mini celebration with limited edition 100-year Anniversary swag. In November we will host an Open House party at the Laboratory- let us know if you want to be a part of it! (Unfortunately, as we are a non-profit, you have to fund your own way to Cincinnati)
We want your Stories! Have you been impacted by the Leather Research Laboratory? Did we help you solve a problem? Did we give you scrap leather? Were you a Co-Op student? Employee or former employee (with nice things to say)? Click (or paste) this link to share your stories with us! We will compile them into a presentation to be shown at our November Anniversary celebration.
Important News
- Our lab@usleather.org email address is currently not working. Our team is working on it. Please email Louisa Passano: passanlb@uc.edu or Steven Lange langesn@uc.edu in the interim.
- We are CLOSED Thursday July 4, 2024
- 2 Spots remaining for Summer Leather Orientation Course!
- Fall Leather Orientation Course September 11-12, 2024 is filling up- get registered soon.
Email Louisa to get registered. - A 100 year Anniversary party is in the works. We will announce details soon.
The Leather Research Laboratory at the University of Cincinnati will be hosting the following educational opportunities in 2024:
Leather Orientation Course
This popular 2-Day course will take place at the Leather Research Laboratory on the campus of the University of Cincinnati and will cover a wide range of leather related issues such as physical structure, hide supply, tannery operations, finishing options, governmental regulatory concerns, problem solving, testing and customer acceptance issues. Attendees will be given an in-depth tour of the Leather Research Laboratory and will have a book with various leather samples to take home and use as a reference.
The cost of this course is $985 per person with discounts available for multiple participants from the same company. Dates: April 17-18, 2024, July 17-18, 2024, and September 11-12, 2024.
Introduction to Leather Testing Workshop
This workshop is designed for individuals that need a comprehensive understanding of both the theory and application of a wide array of standard test methods in use in the leather industry. The workshop is a blend of classroom instruction along with significant time for hands on application in the laboratory. Participants will be able to perform many of these test methods and techniques on the provided leather samples or on their own samples.
The cost of this workshop is $1,350 per person. Date: June 12-13, 2024.
To register for any of our classes, or for more information, please email Louisa at passanlb@uc.edu
News from the 115th Annual Convention of the American Leather Chemists Association (ALCA)
In May, Director Steve Lange presented a paper, Leather Species Identification via Mitochondrial DNA Polymerase Chain Reaction at the 115th Annual American Leather Chemists Association (ALCA) convention. This paper represented research work done in collaboration with Dr. Xiang Zhang at UC’s Genomics, Epigenomics and Sequencing Core.
At the convention it was also announced the Steve Lange will take over as Editor of the Journal of American Leather Chemists Association (JALCA)! He is preceded by Robert White, who held the position for thirteen years.
The JALCA has reported on research in the leather field on a monthly basis since 1906.
Congratulations, Steve Lange!
Photo Caption: Carol Adcock, American Leather Chemist Association Executive Secretary, presented retiring Journal editor Robert White with a plaque in recognition of his service as JALCA editor.