East Stroudsburg University Faculty In The News

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Posted by: Elizabeth Richardson on September 23, 2020, No Comments

East Stroudsburg University professor and chair of chemistry and biochemistry, Michelle Jones-Wilson, Ph.D., will lead a national webinar about supporting student learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. The seminar, titled “Managing the Impacts of COVID-19: Supporting Student Learning and Motivation,” is hosted by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and will take place virtually on Tuesday, September 29, 2020 from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Dr. Jones-Wilson will be joined by Jennifer Drew, senior lecturer at the University of Florida. The two will share their best practices, strategies and resource-sharing opportunities for instruction during the COVID pandemic, specifically as it relates to S-STEM programs. To register for the webinar, visit: https://www.workcast.com/register?cpak=8929440544305285. For questions about the webinar, contact agonzalez@aaas.org.

Instructor of modern languages, Pana Barova Ozcan, Ph.D., recently translated the Japanese novel “Gogo no eikō” (“The sailor who fell from grace with the sea”) by Mishima Yukio into Bulgarian. The translation project was started by Dr. Ozcan’s mother, a professional translator, who translated 40 pages of the novel from Japanese and English into Bulgarian before passing away. Ozcan translated the remaining 200 pages of the novel, a project that was sponsored by the Japan Foundation.

Prior to this, Ozcan’s mother translated over 50 works from modern and contemporary Japanese authors, including Nastume Soseki, Kawabata Yasunari, Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Tanizaki Junichiro,  Mishima Yukio, Abe Kobo, Edogawa Rampo, Murakami Haruki. Among her translations from English into Bulgarian are The Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden), A Thousand Splendid Suns (Kahled Hosseini) and The Tale of Murasaki (Liza Dalby). In 2010, her mother was awarded the national decoration of the Japanese Government, The Order of the Rising Sun, for promoting Japanese culture in Bulgaria.