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American Girls Studying in China Gained Fulbright U.S. Student Program grants

 
Two University of Iowa alumnae have been awarded Fulbright U.S. Student Program grants to conduct research internationally in 2013-14. This year's UI recipients are Margaret Ross and Rebecca McCray.
 
Ross of New York City, N.Y., is a 2011 graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in poetry, and holds a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Harvard College. With her Fulbright award, Ross will travel to China to research and write a book of poetry exploring the cityscape in Nanjing, China, as well as to audit classes in Chinese literature and language with famed Professor Cheng Zhangcan at Nanjing University. She interacted last fall with a commission of Chinese poets visiting the UI’s International Writing Program in Iowa City, whose Life of Discovery program had participating poets write about urban space in the Midwestern U.S.