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5Dec

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Nationwide’s Charity Challenge kicks off today with increased prize money, new voting option

Contest promotes and supports nominees for the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Award presented by Nationwide COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Nationwide's annual Charity Challenge kicks off today, giving football fans a way to help Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year nominees earn additional dollars for their chosen charities. As presenting sponsor of the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Award, Nationwide is encouraging fans to take the challenge and vote for their favorite nominees now through January 8, 2024. To commemorate its 10th year of sponsoring what is widely regarded as the NFL's most prestigious honor, Nationwide will award the Charity Challenge winner an additional $10,000 for his designated charity, increasing the top prize from $25,000 to $35,000. The second a...

'NCIS' Doesn't Win Emmys, but 300 Million People Watched It Last Year

12Nov

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'NCIS' Doesn't Win Emmys, but 300 Million People Watched It Last Year

The drama about Navy and Marine crimes will launch its latest installment, set in Australia, on CBS Tuesday.

Morgan Stanley Wins Four 2023 Money Management Institute (MMI)/Barron’s Industry Awards

3Nov

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Morgan Stanley Wins Four 2023 Money Management Institute (MMI)/Barron’s Industry Awards

Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) announced today that it has won four Industry Awards from the Money Management Institute (MMI) and Barron’s, the most of any firm. The awards include a Digital Innovation award for Morgan Stanley’s Portfolio Risk Platform, a Disruption award for Morgan Stanley’s UMA Fractional Share Program, a Sustainable & ESG Investing Award for Morgan Stanley IQ ®, and a Doing Good award for Morgan Stanley’s Strategy Challenge. “Being recognized by MMI/Barron’s in four categories is truly an honor,” said Andy Saperstein, Co-President of Morgan Stanley and Head of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management. “These awards reflect our ability to leverage technology to create innovative solutions in investment advisory for the benefit of our clients and Financial Adviso...

13Oct

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Nobel Laureate Louise Glück Dies at 80

The American poet won a Pulitzer Prize for “The Wild Iris.”

How Nobel Winner Narges Mohammadi Squares Up to Iran's Leaders

7Oct

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How Nobel Winner Narges Mohammadi Squares Up to Iran's Leaders

Iran’s perhaps most audacious rights campaigner was exposed to political activism—and the threat of prison—from an early age

Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Imprisoned Iranian Activist

6Oct

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Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Imprisoned Iranian Activist

Narges Mohammadi’s award is a symbolic show of support for the women’s-rights movement that led nationwide antigovernment protests.

Nobel Prize in Literature Awarded to Norwegian Author Jon Fosse

5Oct

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Nobel Prize in Literature Awarded to Norwegian Author Jon Fosse

The Nobel committee commended the writer “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.”

Quantum Dot Researchers Win Nobel Prize in Chemistry

4Oct

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Quantum Dot Researchers Win Nobel Prize in Chemistry

The Nobel committee said Wednesday that Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov won the chemistry prize for research on the dots, semiconductor particles just a few nanometers in size.

The Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to three scientists whose research demonstrates a way to create extremely short pulses of light that can provide information about processes inside atoms and molecules.

4Oct

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The Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to three scientists whose research demonstrates a way to create extremely short pulses of light that can provide information about processes inside atoms and molecules.

The Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to three scientists whose research demonstrates a way to create extremely short pulses of light that can provide information about processes inside atoms and molecules.

Nobel Physics Prize Awarded to Trio for Work on Electrons

3Oct

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Nobel Physics Prize Awarded to Trio for Work on Electrons

The prize was awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier for their research studying the behavior of electrons at a tiny time scale.