Chemistry Graduate Student Wins Dissertation Award

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Chemistry doctoral candidate Brigitte Factor is the recipient of one of two Fulbright Dissertation Awards awarded by the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences.

The award will allow her to study abroad this summer at Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany, where she will perform research essential to her dissertation. Factor is studying analytical chemistry with an emphasis in microelectrochemical sensors under the direction of Associate Professor Ingrid Fritsch.

"If her research is successful, it would be a major breakthrough in chemical detection," Fritsch said. "Her results could have ramifications in sensor technology for clinical, medical and environmental applications."

Factor holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and biology from Southwest Baptist University and a master’s degree in chemistry from Southwest Missouri State University.