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SAUDI ARABIA, VIETNAM, MOLDOVA CBA Fulbright Scholars exchange knowledge and culture
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conomics Professor Catherine Yap Co and Management Professor Ziaul Huq are the latest College of Business Administration faculty members to be named Fulbright Scholars. Huq will spend the first six months of 2016 in Saudi Arabia after receiving his second Fulbright award. His first Fulbright award was to his homeland of Bangladesh in 2008. The prestigious and highly competitive award, coupled with a UNO Faculty Research International grant, will fund Huq’s research on Six Sigma quality programs, an area with new research applications in a developing country like Saudi Arabia. “Total Quality Management was the approach in the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000,” he says. “Six Sigma is more
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structured, more focused. My research focuses on competency issues, an element that’s left out of the traditional Six Sigma model.” Huq will also teach graduatelevel operations and supply chain management classes at Umm Al-Qura University in Mecca. Co, the Ward Y. and George T. Lindley Professor at CBA, recently completed a 10-month appointment as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar to teach and conduct workshops in Vietnam. “This year has been one of the most important and memorable in my academic career,” she says. Co says that throughout her travels in Vietnam, “I was struck by the young generation’s genuine desire to engage with the rest of the world. I met dedicated individuals who are passionate