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WARWICK, R.I.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The nonprofit Corvias Foundation today announced the launch of its Purple Tassel Vocational Achievement Scholarship, creating a new scholarship opportunity for military-connected students pursuing skilled trades, technical training, certifications, apprenticeships, and other vocational careers. The scholarship will award up to $10,000 to eligible high school seniors from active-duty military families stationed at a Corvias-managed installation. "Success after hig...

ALPHARETTA, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--National Vision Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: EYE), one of the largest optical retail companies in the United States, announced today that its annual scholarship program is open for entries, offering eligible optometry students the opportunity to win up to $7,500.This year’s scholarship program challenges students to explore the topic of, “Balancing Innovation and Human Connection.” Third- and fourth-year optometry students are invited to submit written or video essay...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc. (NASDAQ: FFAI) (“Faraday Future,” “FF,” or the “Company”), a California-based global Embodied AI (“EAI”) ecosystem company, today announced that this week’s Investor Weekly Report from FF Founder and Global CEO YT Jia has been rescheduled to October 14. Additionally, FFR and FFAI will host a joint new product launch event on October 14, 2026, featuring four major launches focused on embodied AI robotics, Physical AI educatio...

COLUMBUS, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--McGraw Hill, Inc. (the “Company”) announced today that it has completed a series of refinancing transactions that extend the maturities of certain of its outstanding indebtedness and enhance the Company’s financial flexibility.As part of the refinancing transactions, McGraw-Hill Education, Inc., the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiary (the “Issuer”), completed its previously announced private offering (the “Offering”) of $400 million in aggregate principal amount o...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The need for bold, innovative thinkers capable of addressing the world’s most pressing environmental challenges has never been greater. For the past decade, through the Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award, the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability (IoES) has identified those changemakers early in their careers, giving them recognition, resources and a platform to advance their work. Tonight, UCLA celebrated the award’s 10th anniversary, reco...

FREMONT, Calif. & CLEARWATER, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--TD SYNNEX (NYSE: SNX) today announced a bold new initiative in North America designed to help reseller and vendor partners identify, pursue and scale opportunities across the rapidly expanding space economy. The first-of-its-kind initiative expands TD SYNNEX’s specialist go-to-market model into the space economy, combining focused market expertise with the scale of its technology ecosystem and gives partners a clearer path to build capabiliti...

COLLEGE PARK, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--IonQ (NYSE: IONQ), the world’s leading full-stack quantum platform and foundry, today announced the achievement of entanglement rates above 1,000 per second (1 kHz) between a trapped ion qubit and a solid-state memory, through a photonic interconnect. Entanglement is the quantum connection that lets separate systems work together, and it is the essential ingredient for networking quantum computers. While the trapped ion qubit sets the standard for qubit coher...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On November 4, 2026, the Japan Analytical Instruments Manufacturers’ Association (JAIMA), in cooperation with the Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology (MJIIT), Japanese research institutions, and government agencies, will hold its first joint symposium in Malaysia. Under the theme of “Green Technology,” the symposium will explore local social and environmental challenges through analytical instruments and measurement technologies, showcasing research, tec...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Amentum opens its Global Nuclear headquarters in Oak Ridge, Tennessee as a centralized hub for international nuclear business operations....

OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Samuel Merritt University (SMU) today announced $1 million in California state budget funding, championed by California state Sen. Jesse Arreguín, to create the SMU THRIVE Institute. The institute will train healthcare workers to recognize and respond to human trafficking and violence and open new health career pathways for survivors. The same budget includes a separate $1 million for the City of Oakland's violence prevention work. Arreguín and Oakland Mayor Ba...