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Marylhurst University Faculty Member Receives Fulbright Specialists Award













Marylhurst, OR (PRWEB) May 03, 2015

Dr. Tonda Liggett, faculty member in the Department of Education at Marylhurst University, has been selected for a Fulbright Specialists project in Thailand at Chiang Mai Rajabhat University during May 2015, according to the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

Liggett is one of over 400 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad this year through the Fulbright Specialists Program. Her project will focus on the development of the faculty and students at Chiang Mai Rajabhat University, providing faculty professional development, enhancing faculty members’ and students’ English skills, and producing high quality curricular materials. She will assist faculty in Chaing Mai Rajabhat’s English department develop a master’s program.

Liggett will be available for interviews upon returning from Thailand in late May.

Tonda Liggett is associate faculty and English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) program coordinator in the Department of Education at Marylhurst University. Her research focuses on the intersections of English language education and critical multicultural education. Within this nexus, she examines issues of race, culture and language in relation to teacher identity and teaching. Most recently, she has been researching and traveling to Southeast Asia to better understand the role of globalization on language learning and cultural context. She holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction and an M.A. in Language and Linguistics from the University of New Hampshire.

The Fulbright Specialists Program, created in 2000 to complement the traditional Fulbright Scholar Program, provides short-term academic opportunities (two to six weeks) to prominent U.S. faculty and professionals to support curricular and faculty development and institutional planning at postsecondary, academic institutions around the world.

The Fulbright Program, America’s flagship international educational exchange activity, is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. In its 60 years of existence, thousands of U.S. faculty and professionals have taught, studied or conducted research abroad, and thousands of their counterparts from other countries have engaged in similar activities in the United States. Over 285,000 emerging leaders in their professional fields have received Fulbright awards, including individuals who later became heads of government, Nobel Prize winners, and leaders in education, business, journalism, the arts and other fields.

About Marylhurst University

Marylhurst University, a private liberal arts university 10 miles south of Portland, Ore., on Highway 43, is regionally accredited and nationally recognized for innovation and academic excellence in serving adult learners. Founded in 1893, Oregon’s oldest Catholic university serves nearly 1,300 multigenerational students of all faiths and backgrounds. Marylhurst offers more than 50 undergraduate and graduate degrees and professional certificate programs on campus and online, all of which integrate the liberal arts with professional studies and prepare graduates to be ethical leaders who think critically and creatively.























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Anderson Pediatric Dentistry Introduces New Team Member










Anderson, SC (PRWEB) July 18, 2014

Anderson Pediatric Dentistry is pleased to introduce the newest addition to their team. Dr. Bonnie Alexander is the new doctor at the practice. With her contributions, Anderson Pediatric Dentistry will be able to expand their office hours to better serve Anderson and the surrounding communities.

Dr. Alexander grew up in Walhalla, SC and attended the College of Charleston, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in biology in 2006. She then received her Doctorate of Dental Medicine from the Medical University of South Carolina. After completing her degree, she returned to Walhalla to serve the community in which she was raised.

Before joining Anderson Pediatric Dentistry, Dr. Alexander worked at a general dentistry office in Westminster, SC, where she enjoyed seeing both children and adults. She joins Anderson Pediatric Dentistry to further her career while focusing on her love of treating children.

Anderson Pediatric Dentistry is now offering Thursday appointments. They are so grateful for how the community has embraced them and look forward to serving the dental needs of children in the community. They welcome Dr. Alexander to the practice and know that she will be a great addition to the team.

About the company:

Anderson Pediatric Dentistry, PA provides dentistry for children. Dr. Kathleen Monn is an experienced dentist for kids with a Doctor of Dental Medicine degree from the Medical University of South Carolina. In addition to the four years of dental school training, Dr. Monn has two years of specialty training. During this training, she gained the knowledge necessary to treat the issues unique to infants, children and adolescents, including those with special healthcare needs. Dr. Monn has learned the different approaches in dealing with behavior, guiding dental growth and avoiding dental problems in children from infancy through the teenage years. For more information, visit Anderson Pediatric Dentistry’s website at http://www.andersonpediatricdentistry.com.























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Club One Begins Deployment of MoSo Suite for Member Relationship & Facility Management












Rockville, MD (PRWEB) March 20, 2012

Motionsoft, a leader in providing member relationship management software and financial services to the health and fitness industry, today announced that San Francisco-based Club One, has launched its first 3 locations on MoSo, the cloud-based facility management suite. The remaining Club One facilities will be going live later this year. The locations will be integrating MoSo MRM for member relationship and facility management, myClub online member portal, and the Data Warehouse advanced reporting tool throughout the rollout.

“MoSo was built to help the best brands in fitness, like Club One, get, keep and know their members better,” said Al Noshirvani, CEO of Motionsoft. “It is easy to deploy, simple to learn, and powerful enough to help manage to the exacting standards that Club One demanded.”

“Because MoSo is the industry’s first true cloud-based club management and billing solution, Club One no longer needs to manage technology,” said Alan Vouk, COO of Motionsoft. “All updates are automatic, and every aspect of the technology can be handled by the Motionsoft team.”

About Motionsoft

Motionsoft is a membership relationship management software and billing provider, recently ranked among the top 1000 of America’s fastest growing private companies in Inc. Magazine’s Annual 500/5000 Report, and in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 as well as IHRSA’s 2011 Associate Member of the Year. Motionsoft counts Equinox, Crunch, Gold’s Gym, Akron General and Starbucks among their 2500 clients in the active lifestyle industry. On July 5, the company launched MoSo, a small, medium & enterprise level cloud-based business & member management software solution.

About Club One

Founded in 1991, Club One is a leading source for award-winning fitness and wellness solutions throughout the United States. In addition to operating 17 Club One Fitness branded clubs in Northern California and Frog’s Fitness branded clubs in Southern California, Club One also manages more than 60 corporate fitness centers, community centers, multi-tenant business parks and municipalities serving more than 140,000 members nationwide.

Club One’s innovative programs and exceptional service environments have earned it numerous long-standing awards, including: “Best Health Club”, “Best Place to Work Out” and “Best Places to Work” nods, as well as several Nova 7 Certificates of Excellence.

Club One partners include: Autodesk, Chevron, AOL, eBay, Electronic Arts, Motorola, VM Ware, the Jewish Community Centers of San Francisco, among many others. For more information, please visit http://www.ClubOneInc.com.









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CIGI Founding Member of Council of Councils, Linking World’s Major Foreign Policy Institutes










Waterloo, Ont. (PRWEB) March 14, 2012

The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) is proud to announce its membership in the inaugural Council of Councils.

Launched these days in Washington, D.C., by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) , the Council of Councils is an international initiative to connect major foreign policy institutes from about the world in a widespread conversation on issues of global governance and multilateral cooperation. The mission of the Council of Councils is to locate typical ground on shared threats, build help for innovative concepts, and inject remedies into the public debate and policymaking processes of member countries.

The founding membership of the Council of Councils consists of top institutions from nineteen countries, roughly tracking the composition of the Group of Twenty (G20). The network will facilitate candid, not-for-attribution dialogue and consensus creating among influential opinion leaders from established and emerging nations. CIGI is the Council of Councils’ sole Canadian member organization.

CFR will convene the inaugural Council of Councils conference on March 1213 in Washington, D.C. Participants will tackle four main themes at this first gathering:

    the general state of international governance and multilateral cooperation
    the status of the nuclear nonproliferation regime (with a concentrate on Iran)
    the U.S. dollar’s future as the world’s reserve currency
    the criteria for humanitarian intervention, in the wake of regime alter in Libya and the ongoing crisis in Syria

Transcripts from two on-the-record sessions of the conference, featuring President of the World Bank Robert B. Zoellick and Undersecretary of State Robert D. Hormats, will be offered on CFR.org following the occasion.

In addition to an annual conference, the Council of Councils will give an ongoing exchange for research and policy collaboration amongst its members. CFR and its international partners will experiment with new technology, making use of state-of-the-art videoconferencing, wikis, and mobile platforms to collectively communicate and respond to breaking crises. The group will also take into account lengthy-term structural reforms that would enhance the international governance capacity of major international institutions.

To see the complete list of founding Council of Councils member organizations, visit http://www.cfr.org/projects/world/council-of-councils/pr1592?cid=nlc-news_release-news_release-link4-20120312

“Innovative governance approaches to global challenges underlie CIGI’s mission,” said CIGI Executive Director Thomas A. Bernes. “The new Council of Councils is a further step in working with our global partners to search out the very best policy assistance and amplify its delivery to policy makers.”

CFR President Richard N. Haass stated, “The defining foreign policy challenges of the twenty-very first century are global in nature. The Council of Councils draws on the best thinking from around the world to assess emerging threats and opportunities and formulate responses to them.”

The Council of Councils initiative is funded by a generous grant from the Robina Foundation, as element of its ongoing assistance for CFR’s International Institutions and Global Governance plan.

CIGI MEDIA Make contact with:    

Declan Kelly, Communications Specialist, CIGI

Tel: 519.885.2444, ext. 356, E-mail: dkelly(at)cigionline(dot)org

CFR MEDIA Make contact with:

Anya Schmemann, Director of Communications, CFR

Tel: 202.509.8419, E mail: aschmemann(at)cfr(dot)org

ABOUT CIGI and CFR:

The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) is an independent, non-partisan think tank on international governance. Led by experienced practitioners and distinguished academics, CIGI supports investigation, forms networks, advances policy debate and generates concepts for multilateral governance improvements. Conducting an active agenda of investigation, events and publications, CIGI’s interdisciplinary function includes collaboration with policy, business and academic communities about the world. CIGI was founded in 2001 by Jim Balsillie, then co-CEO of Study In Motion (RIM), and collaborates with and gratefully acknowledges assistance from a quantity of strategic partners, in certain the Government of Canada and the Government of Ontario. For far more details, please pay a visit to http://www.cigionline.org.

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, feel tank, and publisher dedicated to getting a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and students, civic and religious leaders, and other interested citizens in order to aid them much better comprehend the globe and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other nations. CFR takes no institutional positions on matters of policy.





















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