For more information contact:
Dawn Bratsch-Prince
Associate Dean
Director, LAS International
213 Catt Hall
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa 50011
515.294.1162
deprince@iastate.edu
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- Asian Studies
The art of calligraphy
At the same time Aili Mu learned of a workshop in Chinese calligraphy, a new faculty fellowship in art history in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures was being announced.
The Jeoraldean S. McClain Art History Scholarship for Faculty was established to show how art history is an important form of language. The $4000 award was established by McClain, professor emerita of art history, to cover a portion of the expenses of travel abroad to faculty members to engage in a structured summer study program in art history.
For Mu, assistant professor of foreign languages and literatures, it was the perfect combination of being in the right place at the right time.
"I thought I could put the funds to good use," she said. "She gave the department a wonderful opportunity to show language is really more than most believe it is."- Read More
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