TRI Supporting Cosmetic Science Education: New ‘Performance Evaluation Techniques’ Course starts at University of Toledo
Last month saw the start of a new on-line course on ‘Performance Evaluation Techniques’ at the University of Toledo, created in close collaboration with TRI Princeton. The course is part of the Cosmetic Science and Formulation Design graduate program at the University. This initiative builds even closer ties with Toledo and follows on from TRI’s support for the University’s Beauty of Science Camp in July this year, and provision of internship training places for Toledo students over the past few years.
Education is an important part of TRI’s not-for-profit mission, and the institute supports students of cosmetic science, and trichology in many ways. For example, the learning resources in the TRI Library are used by students across several universities and colleges, discounts are given to students attending our hair and skin courses, and several paid internships are also provided each year at TRI. In addition to this our team also lecture on hair and skin science at many universities in the UK and US.
The ‘Performance Evaluation Techniques’ course is an important for TRI as it is major step-up in the level of collaboration with the University of Toledo. The work in Toledo builds on the strong collaborations TRI has already built with Rutgers University, in NJ, on the Master of Business and Science (MBS, Personal Care Science) course, where TRI staff help supervise externship projects, and Liverpool John Moores University, UK, MSc Cosmetic Science course, where TRI staff provide lectures, and supervise final term projects.
It is hoped that the new course on ‘Performance Evaluation Techniques’ will give students a new insight into testing techniques used for cosmetic product claims substantiation. As the course is 100% online, students will complete readings and lecture videos covering the relationships between substrate properties and product performance, experimental designs for product performance assessments, and the workings of the instrumentation needed for these assessments. Students will walk away with a new understanding of how their future cosmetic products will be tested and may even be interested in a career in third-party claims substantiation testing!
