2007-08
Dr. Kate Kaiser, Associate Professor of Management, has received a Fulbright Research Scholar award to travel to India to explore the high turnover rate of information technology employees. At the end of October 2007, Dr. Kaiser will visit Indian and United States software firms in the cities of Bangalore, New Delhi, Hyderabad, Pune and Chennai. While there, she will observe business practices, interview staff and study cultural influences.
2006-07
Dr. Syed H. Akhter, professor and chair of marketing at Marquette University, was named a Fulbright Scholar for the fall semester 2006 to study the effects of globalization on Caribbean businesses. Starting in September, Akhter spent three months based in the Department of Management Studies at the Cave Hill campus of the University of the West Indies in Barbados.
Akhter examined how the entry of foreign-based firms has affected the competitive position of local firms, how local businesses have responded, and what Caribbean firms can do to improve their competitive positions both domestically and internationally. The small size of Caribbean countries make them ideal candidates for studying the effects of globalization on the performance of small firms, according to Akhter, research that can then be extended to the experiences of small economies around the world.
Dr. Stephen Heinrich, Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. was named a Fulbright Research Scholar, and served as a Visiting Professor at Laboratoire IXL at Université Bordeaux 1 in Bordeaux, France.
Dr. Stephen Heinrich collaborated 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.
2005-06
Dr. Milton J. Bates, Professor of English, will travel to Universidad Complutense de Madrid in Spain as a senior Fulbright scholar. Bates will teach a doctoral course on Literary Responses to the Vietnam War and an advanced undergraduate course on American prose and fiction from 1850 to 1950. He will also seek out Spanish perspectives on three areas of American literary expression that have been the focus of his research: modernism, the Vietnam War, and the American landscape.
Dr. Irfan A. Omar, assistant professor of theology, will travel to Muhammadiyah Malang University in Malang, Indonesia, for a five-month teaching and research position in spring 2006. As a lecturer at the university, Omar will offer courses dealing with comparative studies of religion and traditions of pluralism practiced in Indonesia and the United States, as well as lead reflections on the roles Muslims play in the world. He will also present a new course exploring the Muslim experience in America. In addition, Omar’s work will allow him to engage in dialogue and exchange ideas with numerous Indonesian intellectuals and religious leaders.
Dr. Raju G.C. Thomas, professor of political science and Allis-Chalmers Distinguished Professor of International Affairs, will travel to Serbia and Montenegro to serve as a visiting professor at the University of Belgrade for the full academic year. While there, he will teach several political sciences courses dealing with foreign policy, international economic issues, world conflict and security. Thomas will also create a new international security research seminar, which will allow students to develop major research projects as part of developing Belgrade University’s international security studies program.
2003-04
Dr. Lawrence J. LeBlanc, professor of political science, traveled to Malaysia for the 2003-04 academic year to lecture and conduct research as a Fulbright Program scholar. In Malaysia, LeBlanc taught a graduate-level course on human rights in international relations at the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia in Bangi. LeBlanc was previously a Fulbright scholar at the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights at the University of Utrecht from 1990-91.
2002-03
Dr. Donald A. Neumann, associate professor of physical therapy, was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in the Fall of 2002 to teach in Kaunas Medical School, located in Kaunas, Lithuania. He is the first physical therapy faculty member and the first College of Health Sciences faculty member to receive a Fulbright. In addition to teaching anatomy and kinesiology to medical students, he also helped start the country's first university-based physical therapy program.
Dr. James F. Scotton, associate professor of journalism, received an extension of his 2001-02 Fulbright award to continue teaching and research in China. Scotton taught international communication, writing and reporting in the College of Communication and Journalism at Fudan University in Shanghai and worked with local colleagues to select and edit U.S. journalism textbooks to be translated into Chinese. He also worked with colleagues to write a journalism textbook based on the experience of Chinese journalists and comparing English-language and Chinese-language newspaper coverage of Chinese-U.S. relations. Scotton was previously a Fulbright Scholar at Nairobi University in Kenya where he lectured and taught as a visiting journalism professor in 1985-86. From 1989 to 1991, he was a visiting professor and head of the mass communication program at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda—also through the Fulbright Scholar Program.
2001-02
Dr. Mark L. Nagurka, associate professor of mechanical and biomedical engineering, participated in the Fulbright Program during the 2001-2002 academic year. He spent 10 months at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. The institute, which traces its history to 1934, is a widely recognized multidisciplinary research center and graduate school with more than 2,500 scientists, technicians and research students. His research work in Israel focused on how people and machines interact, in particular on the dynamics and control of the human upper arm in movement. In addition to helping design robotic test equipment to measure the mechanical properties of arms, he co-taught a graduate course entitled "The control of motion in biological and robotic systems."
Dr. Peter G. Toumanoff, associate professor of economics, participated in the Fulbright Program during the 2001-2002 academic year. He spent six months at the Urals Gold-Platinum Institute International School of Business in Yekaterinburg, Russia, during the spring semester. As part of his Fulbright work, he lectured in executive MBA programs at the private institute, founded in 1995. His research helped establish a database of regional economic information.
Dr. James F. Scotton, associate professor of journalism, left in August 2001 to spend 10 months teaching at the Shanghai International Studies University in China (SISU)—his third Fulbright award. SISU offers four-year bachelor’s degrees, including several language programs. Scotton worked with the international journalism program teaching writing and international communication. In addition to teaching, Dr. Scotton studied shifting newspaper publishing policies and trends in China—specifically, the shift by Chinese newspapers from publishing only government-approved material to having to satisfy their readers.
Complete list of Marquette University Fulbright Scholars 1952 - Present
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