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FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE REOPENS RESTORED FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT PLANETARIUM

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LAKELAND, Fla., Sept. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Florida Southern College (FSC) will reopen its newly restored Frank Lloyd Wright designed Planetarium to the public this month, returning the historic space to active educational and public use for the first time in more than two decades. The Planetarium will offer regularly scheduled public shows and opportunities for schools, community organizations and other groups to experience the historic space.

Located within the Polk Science Building, the Planetarium is the only planetarium constructed from a design by Frank Lloyd Wright and is part of Florida Southern’s collection of 13 Wright designed structures, the largest single site collection of Wright architecture in the world.

“Florida Southern has long been entrusted with preserving Frank Lloyd Wright’s extraordinary vision for this campus, and reopening the Planetarium allows us to bring an important piece of that vision back to life,” said Dr. Jeremy P. Martin, president of Florida Southern College. “This restoration honors the history of this remarkable space while creating new opportunities for our students, visitors and the broader community to experience it in a meaningful way.”

Public shows will be offered Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays at 3:30 p.m., beginning Saturday, Sept. 26. Six programs will rotate monthly through the schedule: Cosmic Adventure; Destination Mars: The New Frontier; From Earth to the Universe; God, Science, and Our Search for Meaning; Oasis in Space; and Undiscovered Worlds: The Search Beyond Our Sun. 

Programs range from approximately 20 to 32 minutes and explore topics including the solar system, Mars exploration, exoplanets and humanity’s understanding of the universe. The full Planetarium experience will last approximately 60 to 90 minutes and include an introduction to the history and significance of the Frank Lloyd Wright designed space before the featured show.

Tickets are $20 per person and $15 per person for families and groups of four or more. Planetarium admission is separate from Florida Southern’s Frank Lloyd Wright architectural tours.

In addition to regularly scheduled public shows, the Planetarium will support Florida Southern students and faculty and provide opportunities for school field trips, community organizations and other groups to visit and experience its programming.

“Reopening the Planetarium allows us to bring an important part of Florida Southern’s history back to life while creating new opportunities for our students and the community,” said Tory King, director of Tourism Operations & Visitor Experience at FSC. “The architectural restoration brought the space back, and the new technology now allows us to return it to active educational and public use.”

The reopening represents the culmination of a multiphase restoration. Exterior restoration was supported by State of Florida and private funding, while interior restoration was supported by federal Save America’s Treasures funding and private donors. The most recent phase, also supported by State of Florida funding, included the installation of a new COSM projection system and Bowen sound system, allowing the restored space to function as a modern planetarium once again.

Designed as part of Wright’s plans for the Polk Science Building, the Planetarium was constructed between 1954 and 1958, with its first show held April 7, 1960. The space supported Florida Southern’s astronomy program while also welcoming school field trips and the public. Astronomy professors used shows to introduce students to core concepts, and four public shows were traditionally offered each year. After the projection system stopped functioning in 2004, the Planetarium saw only limited use until restoration efforts began.

Wright had pursued the idea of designing a planetarium for decades before incorporating one into his plans for Florida Southern. His original vision for the Science Building included several public educational spaces, reflecting his belief that colleges should extend opportunities for learning beyond their students and into the surrounding community.

With its restoration complete and new technology in place, the Planetarium once again brings together Wright’s architectural vision, science and education while opening a distinctive part of Florida Southern’s campus to a new generation of students and visitors.

Tickets, current show schedules and additional information are available through https://fsc.universitytickets.com/w/default.aspx?cid=177 

About Florida Southern College
Founded in 1883, Florida Southern College is the oldest private college in the state. The College maintains its commitment to academic excellence through 70+ undergraduate programs and distinctive graduate programs in business administration, education, nursing, and physical therapy. Florida Southern has a 14:1 student-to-faculty ratio, is an award-winning national leader in engaged learning, and boasts 32 NCAA Division II National Championships. In the U.S. News & World Report’s 2025 “Best Colleges” guide, Florida Southern ranks #11 among “Best Regional Universities in the South,” #12 in “Most Innovative Schools,” and #24 in “Best Value Schools.” The College is also highlighted in The Princeton Review’s 2026 Best 391 Colleges guide and the “Fiske Guide to Colleges 2025.” The 2025-2026 Colleges of Distinction guidebook praises Florida Southern’s AACSB-accredited Barney Barnett School of Business and Free Enterprise alongside the College’s School of Education and its Ann Blanton Edwards School of Nursing and Health Sciences. Home to the world’s largest single-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture, Florida Southern houses 13 Wright-designed structures.

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AdminaHealth® Brings AI-Powered Data Assistant to the Enterprise Tier of the AdminaHealth Billing Suite®

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Read-only assistant lets Enterprise customers ask plain-language questions about their own billing, enrollment, and reconciliation data

GREENWICH, Conn., Sept. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — AdminaHealth, an industry-leading provider of benefits billing technology for brokers, carriers, third-party administrators, and benefits teams, today announced that its AI-powered data assistant is now available to Enterprise customers of the AdminaHealth Billing Suite.

Ask questions about your benefits data in plain language and get answers directly from your workspace.

The assistant lets users ask natural-language questions about billing, enrollment, and reconciliation data within their own workspace, rather than navigating screen by screen or pulling a report to find an answer. A user can ask what a group’s bill totaled for a given month, where a mid-period adjustment originated, or which member’s coverage changed, and receive a direct answer drawn from that workspace’s records.

The assistant is read-only by design. It cannot modify a bill, alter a ledger entry, or change a record. Access requires workspace permission, acceptance of AdminaHealth’s terms of use and privacy policy, and multi-factor authentication.

The assistant operates entirely independently of the Billing Suite’s reconciliation, consolidation, and payment-calculation engine. Those calculations remain governed by AdminaHealth’s proprietary technology, protected under U.S. Patent Nos. 11,410,246 B2 and 11,935,133 B2 and refined through more than a decade of production use.

“AI is most valuable when it helps people get to the information they need faster, without introducing risk into the processes that demand precision,” said Dennis Reaves, Chief Technology Officer at AdminaHealth. “We designed the assistant to give customers a simple, conversational way to explore their own data while keeping our core billing and reconciliation calculations completely separate from generative AI. That distinction was deliberate.”

AdminaHealth also uses AI to convert PDF invoices into structured data for processing by the Billing Suite. This capability expands the range of carrier and vendor invoice formats the platform can ingest and reconcile, reducing the need to manually convert or reformat source data.

Enterprise customers are the first to receive access to the AI data assistant, with availability for additional customers determined on an account-by-account basis.

AdminaHealth is HITRUST-compliant, and the AdminaHealth Billing Suite has adopted the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and earned the elite HITRUST CSF Certification®.

About AdminaHealth

AdminaHealth is a cloud-based provider of the AdminaHealth Billing Suite, which automates benefits premium billing reconciliation, invoice consolidation, self-bill creation, and payment administration to improve accuracy, visibility, efficiency, and control.

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LevelUP HCS Achieves ISO 42001 Certification, Advancing Responsible AI Standards in Talent Acquisition

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Independent certification reinforces LevelUP’s commitment to AI governance, human oversight, and responsible innovation in recruitment.

NEW YORK, Sept. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — LevelUP Human Capital Solutions (LevelUP HCS), a global provider of talent acquisition and workforce solutions, today announced that it has achieved ISO/IEC 42001 certification, becoming an early adopter of the international standard for Artificial Intelligence Management Systems (AIMS) within the recruitment industry.

“Our clients trust us with decisions that affect their businesses and people’s careers. This certification validates our commitment to ensuring AI innovation is backed by strong governance, accountability, and human oversight.” John Fitzgerald, President & Chief Innovation Officer

The certification marks an important milestone in LevelUP HCS’s commitment to advancing AI-enabled talent acquisition while maintaining the governance, accountability, and human oversight essential to responsible hiring.

As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly embedded in recruitment, employers face new questions about how the technology is deployed, how candidate information is handled, and who remains accountable for hiring decisions. For organizations outsourcing all or part of their talent acquisition function, these questions extend directly to their recruitment partners.

ISO/IEC 42001 provides an internationally recognized framework for establishing, maintaining, and continually improving an AI management system. Certification demonstrates that LevelUP HCS has undergone an independent, accredited assessment of its AI management system against the standard’s requirements.

The audit was conducted by A Good Certification Group (AGCG), one of a small number of certification bodies worldwide accredited to assess organizations against ISO/IEC 42001. AGCG’s auditor noted: “You are one of the first 500 companies globally to get certified and genuinely one of the first recruitment companies to do so.”

“AI is fundamentally changing how organizations find, engage, and evaluate talent. But adopting new technology is only part of the equation,” said John Fitzgerald, President and Chief Innovation Officer at LevelUP HCS. “Our clients are trusting us with decisions that affect their businesses and people’s careers. That comes with a responsibility to ensure the technology we use is governed appropriately, risks are actively managed, and human judgment remains central to the hiring process. This certification is an important validation of that commitment.”

Raising the Standard for AI in Recruitment

AI can help recruiters identify talent, improve candidate engagement, streamline screening, and deliver stronger workforce insights, but it also introduces risk: bias, transparency gaps, and questions about the reliability of AI-generated outputs. For Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) providers, that responsibility is amplified. LevelUP HCS and firms like it operate as an extension of their clients’ talent acquisition teams, often working inside client systems and handling sensitive candidate information across multiple markets.

ISO 42001 establishes a structured approach to managing that responsibility, including AI risk assessment, defined accountability, appropriate oversight, and ongoing evaluation. It is the highest standard of AI governance that few companies, globally, have achieved.

For LevelUP HCS clients, certification provides independent assurance that the company has established a formal management system for governing AI within its certified scope, rather than relying solely on individual technology vendors’ assurances or internal policies.

Bringing Responsible AI Into the Hiring Process

The certification builds on LevelUP HCS’s broader investment in technology-enabled recruitment, including the LevelUP Hiring Engine™, which combines AI-powered capabilities with recruiter expertise across sourcing, engagement, screening, and recruitment orchestration.

Designed to work alongside clients’ existing systems, the Hiring Engine helps recruitment teams expand their capacity while keeping people at the center of the process.

LevelUP HCS’s approach is grounded in a simple principle: technology alone doesn’t hire people. People do.

“The opportunity with AI isn’t simply to automate more recruiting activity. It’s to make recruiting more effective,” added Fitzgerald. “That requires understanding where technology adds value, where human expertise matters most, and how to manage the risks that come with both. We believe recruitment providers have a responsibility to lead on this.”

LevelUP HCS’s ISO 42001 certification follows its achievement of ISO 27001 certification for information security management earlier in 2026, reinforcing the company’s continued investment in governance, security, and responsible innovation.

As organizations evaluate the growing role of AI in their workforce strategies, LevelUP HCS believes responsible AI governance will become an increasingly important consideration when selecting talent acquisition partners.

About LevelUP HCS

LevelUP Human Capital Solutions is a global talent acquisition and workforce solutions provider helping organizations build more effective, scalable hiring programs. Its services include Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO), Embedded Recruitment, Managed Service Programs (MSP), Total Talent Solutions, and Talent Intelligence and Advisory. Combining human expertise with innovative technology, LevelUP HCS helps clients solve complex workforce challenges and improve hiring outcomes.

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Emerging from Stealth, Awear Introduces a New Platform for Personal AI

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Starting with smart glasses, Awear gives people greater control over their AI agents while enabling brands to create differentiated experiences across devices

MAUI, Hawaii, Sept. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Awear emerged from stealth today at Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit with a cross-device, context-aware, multimodal intelligence layer for personal AI, built around a simple idea: your AI agent should belong to you, not to a device, an app, or a technology company.

Starting with smart glasses, Awear lets people create and shape their own private AI agents — agents that can move with them across different devices and different brands.

For device makers, that creates a new model. Rather than surrendering the customer experience to a third-party AI assistant, brands can build their own distinctive experiences around the customer’s agent, differentiate their products and maintain a direct relationship with the people who buy them.

“Devices are becoming companions,” said Dr. Ash Saulsbury, founder and CEO of Awear. “They’ll know us, talk to us, and be with us all day. But the memories at the center of that relationship shouldn’t belong to the company that made your glasses or your phone. They should belong to you.”

“You should be able to shape your agents around who you are and take them with you as your devices change. At the same time, the brands you choose should be able to create extraordinary experiences and build their own relationship with you. Awear is building the platform that makes both possible.”

That distinction becomes increasingly important as AI moves beyond phones and computers into the devices people wear throughout the day. When AI can see what people see, hear what they hear and understand the context around them, an assistant is no longer an application. It becomes a persistent interface between people and their digital world.

Awear is designed so the interface is controlled by the individual.

Saulsbury founded Awear after a career spent building many of the technologies now converging in AI-powered eyewear. At Apple’s Advanced Technology Group, he worked on core technologies behind products including AirPods and Apple Watch. At Meta, he spent two years incubating the technology and design behind its Ray-Ban smart glasses. At Microsoft, he led the AR1 silicon program.

Smart glasses are the starting point, not the boundary.

Awear is building its platform so a person’s agent can ultimately move across the devices they carry, wear and drive — and into the robotic systems they interact with — while preserving continuity of identity, preferences and context.

The hardware can change. Your agent remains yours.

For brands, that portability does not mean becoming invisible. Awear gives each device maker the ability to create experiences unique to its products, design, and customers. An eyewear brand can define how its glasses look, feel, and behave. An automotive company can create experiences specific to the vehicle. Another device maker can build entirely different capabilities — all while interacting with the same agents the customer has chosen and shaped.

This gives brands a way to participate directly in the AI era without handing their customers over to someone else’s ecosystem.

Saulsbury is joined by three co-founders bringing expertise across trust, AI, technology, and luxury consumer brands.

Jan Eißfeldt, former Global Head of Trust and Safety at the Wikimedia Foundation, has spent his career building trust systems at global scale, researching AI architectures, and helping define industry standards. Jennifer Van Beek has shaped brand experiences for LVMH and other leading prestige houses. Lila Tretikov, former Deputy CTO of Microsoft and former CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, has built and led major technology and AI organizations.

Eißfeldt and Tretikov are leading Awear’s privacy and trust architecture. At Awear, privacy, trust and safety are not features added after the product is built. They are part of the architecture from the start.

“AI will only fulfill its promise if people trust it,” said Eißfeldt. “And trust starts with who is in control. Your agent will know more about you than almost any technology you have used before. That information should work for you, not become the product.”

“Follow the money: if your business depends on advertising to people and monetizing their attention or data, privacy will always be in tension with profit. We have a chance to establish stronger norms before AI-enabled devices become ubiquitous. That requires a different kind of company, built from the beginning around a different set of incentives.”

At Snapdragon Summit today, Saulsbury took the stage to announce Awear’s technology and preview how personal agents can move across smart glasses while brands create their own differentiated experiences around them.

Built on Snapdragon® AR1+, Awear is already working with its first group of device and eyewear partners.

“Great brands build worlds. They give people a way of seeing, a way of carrying themselves, and a sense of who they are when they wear them,” said Jennifer Van Beek, co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Awear. “Until now, adding AI meant handing the most intimate part of that world to someone else. Awear lets brands bring the most advanced intelligence to their customers without giving up what makes them distinctive: their design language, their values, and their point of view.”

For more information and to be the first to receive product release updates, visit awear.ai.

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