Faculty Focus
Fulbrights announced
Faculty head abroad to do research in Barbados and France
 Marquette announced two Fulbright Scholarships have taken faculty abroad this fall. Dr. Syed H. Akhter, professor and chair of marketing, is studying how foreign-based firms affect marketplace dynamics and change competition for local companies, during a semester at the University of the West Indies in Barbados. His research could be extended to the experiences of small economies around the world.
Dr. Stephen Heinrich, professor of civil and environmental engineering, is collaborating with Dr. Isabelle Dufour at the IXL Lab, Université Bordeaux 1, to develop portable, low-cost, biochemical sensors capable of detecting a broad spectrum of substances, including environmental toxins, blood pathogens or trace amounts of explosives, blood pathogens or trace amounts of explosives that may signal public security threats.
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