A University of California, Davis, professor has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant for 1997-98 to teach and pursue research in Japan. Chia-ning Chang, an associate professor of East Asian language and cultures, is researching the poetics of self-reconstruction through a study of modern Japanese autobiographies at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. He began his work in Japan in September and will conclude in June. Chang has been on the UC Davis faculty for the past 10 years. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1985. The Fulbright program, launched in 1946 through legislation sponsored by former Sen. J. William Fulbright, is designed to heighten understanding between people of the United States and other nations. Recipients are selected on the basis of academic and professional qualifications, as well as their ability to share ideas and experiences with people in other countries.