In the midst of a year of rebuilding, Sweet Briar College has entered a new partnership to recruit Chinese women to the school. It’s teaming up with the National Center for Sustainable Development, a nonprofit based in Washington D.C. and in Beijing. The agreement launching the new program came this month after Sweet Briar President Phillip Stone and other leaders from the college visited Beijing in late February. “I was not just looking for an opportunity to go run to China for a week, but this was developing very quickly and in an interesting way,” Stone said. The National Center…
Sweet Briar College, in partnership with the Beijing- and Washington, D.C.-based National Center for Sustainable Development, is adding a new international program for Chinese women students. Driven in part by the Chinese government’s goal of preparing Chinese women for leadership roles in government, business, industry and education, the College’s new Women’s Leadership Program will bring highly qualified young Chinese women to Sweet Briar to study liberal arts as well as STEM. Sweet Briar President Phillip C. Stone announced the program after a recent trip to China, where Sweet Briar and NCSD prepared to sign a memorandum of understanding with the…
The delegation of Sweet Briar College (SBC) and the National Center for Sustainable Development (NCSD) met with Jing Dunquan, Vice Chairman of China Soong Ching Ling Foundation (CSCLF) on February 25th, 2016. Jing Dunquan extended his welcome and introduced CSCLF’s all kinds of works to the delegation. Jing Sunquan hoped, through mutual deeply understanding, both sides would set up a closely cooperative relations in the fields of civil exchange and education for woman, in order to promote the relations of both countries. Mr. Stone, president of SBC and Mr. Stanley, Chairman of NCSD also shared their opinions, saying that through…
2016年2月25日，美国斯威特布莱尔女子学院（Sweet Briar College）和美国国家可持续发展中心代表团一行10人来到宋庆龄故居参观。虽然故居正处于闭馆修整时期，但还是为这批特殊的客人专门打开了展厅。代表团成员仔细地参观了宋庆龄生平展和原状陈列展，时不时提出自己的看法和见解与故居工作人员进行交流。大家很喜欢这座典雅、庄重的大花园，对宋庆龄一生所做的贡献表示非常敬佩。参观结束后，中国宋庆龄基金会党组成员、副主席井顿泉亲切会见了代表团一行。 美国斯威特布莱尔女子学院（Sweet Briar College）和美国国家可持续发展中心代表团参观故居 领导与代表团集体合影留念 Original: http://www.sql.org.cn/NewsDetail.aspx?id=5939db8d-1129-4d26-a3bc-fbc1f8873801
WASHINGTON – Sept. 14, 2015 – PRLog — Washington, DC (September 13, 2015) – Muuzii®, Inc., the world’s most universal and flexible mobile language translation and language learning service, announced today it will host “China Night at DuPont Circle” on Friday evening, September 18, 2015 and share with attendees the beauty of Chinese music and teach attendees how to write Chinese calligraphy. The event is being co-hosted with the National Center for Sustainable Development (NCSD), a national 501(C)(3) not-for-profit whose mission is to harness the resources and efforts of Chinese and U.S. government-based agencies, business, industry, academia and not-for-profit communities…
October 15, 2014 | Itawamba County – Mitchell Stanley, president of Washington-based non-profit group the National Center for Sustainable Development, called BlueFire Renewables a small company with big ambitions. “They’re like babes in the woods, here in Washington: They’re stumbling around, they don’t know what to do,” Stanley said of the California-based company, which has been struggling to finance a $350-$400 million ethanol plant in Fulton since 2009. Up until December of last year, the U.S. Department of Energy was funding more than $80-million of the project’s construction costs. But a series of missed deadlines for various paperwork filings on…
IRVINE, Calif. and Beijing, China, (October 8, 2014) – BlueFire Renewables, Inc. (OTC: BFRE), a company focused on changing the world’s transportation fuel paradigm through the production of renewable fuels announced that it has finalized and signed a new Master Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract for its planned cellulosic ethanol facility in Fulton, MS. The contract is with the China International Water and Electric, subsidiary of China Three Gorges Corporation (CTG), one of the world’s largest companies and China’s largest renewable energy company. “This contract is truly the first of its kind in the United States” stated Arnold Klann,…
June 25, 2014 – AT&T has launched one of the more innovative services to come through its developer program: Muuzii’s translation service that uses SMS-based text and audio to break down the language barrier. AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) is exclusively offering the service with a monthly subscription, although Muuzii is currently offering a free 14-day trial during the soccer World Cup. The startup’s CMO, Cindy Davis, says it will soon be available across other operators in the US through a third-party aggregator. The service made its way out of AT&T’s Developer Program back in December in a soft launch, but…
June 25, 2014 | By Mike Dano – AT&T Mobility (NYSE: T) today launched a new language translation service for Spanish and Chinese speakers through a new partnership with startup Muuzii. The service starts at $2.99 per month and allows users to send texts in either Spanish or Chinese and have the messages sent back to them translated into English. The service, powered by Muuzii, is promoted as providing “real-time, free-form, accurate translations in seconds.” Cindy Davis, Muuzii’s CMO, explained to FierceWireless that the company started working with AT&T in 2011 and inked a master licensing agreement with the carrier…
RVINE, CA, (October 3, 2013) – BlueFire Renewables, Inc. (OTCBB: BFRE.OB), a company focused on changing the world’s transportation fuel paradigm has integrated a synergistic wood pellet production plant to its facility in Fulton Mississippi. The reconfigured design will be a 9 million gallon per year ethanol plant integrated with a 400,000 ton per year wood pellet plant. The pellets will be sold under long term contracts into the European mandated renewable energy market. “This restructure provides a more robust economic model for the Fulton facility with a significant increase in projected revenues. It has become apparent in our attempts…
Beijing, China | July 19, 2012 – 2012 China Polysilicon Technology & Market High-level Forum (the “Forum”) was held on July 19, 2012 in Beijing. The Forum was jointly hosted by China Energy Investment Net (“CCEI”) and The National Center for Sustainable Development (“NCSD”), and co-sponsored by Poly Plant Project, Inc. (“PPP”). Senior Management of CCEI, NCSD and PPP Terry T. Kunimune, Chairman and Founder of PPP, gave a welcome speech at the Forum. “I would like to thank each person participating in this conference and hope you will be rewarded with valuable information and mutually beneficial relationship with PPP”…
Beijing, China | June 11, 2012 – ENFOS, Inc. (“ENFOS”) today announced that a Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) has been signed with Beijing Shougang Automation Information Technology Co., Ltd. (“SGAI”), the automation and information technology company of Capital Steel Group, committing the two partners to the development of a multi-faceted long-term relationship conducting environmental business management activities in China. Mr. Craig Modesitt, CEO of ENFOS and Mr. Guan Shaobo, GM of SGAI Under the MOU, SGAI will serve as a reseller and exclusive cloud provider of the ENFOS Software as a Service remediation application (the “ENFOS Service”) in China. SGAI…
