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Graham, who left Black Starr & Frost when the jeweler’s Newport Beach, Calif. store closed, now will head marketing and sales for Omi Gems and Omi Privé.

The application period for the 125 scholarships currently being offered by the Gemological Institute of America will close this Saturday, April 30.
Cynthia Prasnal is scheduled to present a history of Van Cleef & Arpels and her work there at the Northwest Jewelry Conference in August.

Jewelers for Children has partnered with Lavish, a leading supplier of jewelry cleaner, on a fundraising program in which jewelry stores can help raise money for children in need.
At Bailey’s Fine Jewelry in North Carolina, owner Clyde Bailey has begun appointing brand ambassadors to navigate what still may be foreign territory to some fine jewelry salespeople: silver fashion jewelry.
The nearly five-year-old case against four men who allegedly forced their way into a jeweler’s home and tied up his family is moving forward.

The trading platform now has diamonds with reports from GHI Gemological Laboratory and De Beers’ International Institute of Diamond Grading and Research.

Everybody in the jewelry business loves referrals, Jim Ackerman writes. Strange, then, that so few jewelers have a well-conceived, formal system for generating them.

Long’s Jewelers held the event at its Burlington, Mass. location last month and sold more bands in platinum than any than in any other metal type.

Jorge Lorenzo, who has won the MotoGP World Championship three times, has joined the Tissot family of celebrity ambassadors.
M. Geller, Schubach Enterprises and D.Nea are among the new members of the International Grown Diamond Association.

Here are the top five stories published on NationalJeweler.com for the week of April 17 to 23, according to Google Analytics.

Clothing-turned-jewelry designer Michal Kadar, who’ll make her trade show debut this summer, is opening an atelier for her fledgling jewelry brand.

Initiatives in Art & Culture will hold its sixth annual Gold Conference on April 28 and 29 at the City University of New York, featuring two full days of presentations on gold and the jewelry industry.
Identified someone willing to take over the jewelry business? Good. Here’s what’s next.

This week included the results of two major fine jewelry auctions in New York and the news that Signet is moving its Dallas headquarters into a mixed used development called Cypress Waters.
The company announced Thursday that 68 Kmart and 10 Sears will close by mid-September.
The company now is providing the industry with market data regarding diamond sales gathered from both independent retailers and large chains.

The miner and marketer reported that diamond production fell by double digits in the first quarter as it scaled back operations due to the weak diamond demand witnessed in 2015.

The Alliance for Responsible Mining announced the availability of the gold mined without the use of any toxic chemicals from six mining organizations in the two countries.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s appeal board has ruled that the two major claims in Lazare Kaplan’s patent for laser-inscribing diamonds are invalid.

The oval-shaped 15.99-carat gemstone topped Christie’s Magnificent Jewels sale, becoming the most expensive colored gemstone ever sold at auction in the U.S.

The Newark Museum received archival manuscripts from the well-known jewelry manufacturer, creating what it says is the country’s most comprehensive jewelry design archive available to the public.
This year, a total of six organizations--JA, DEF, DCA, JSA, JVC and JVC Canada--will share JCK’s annual grant, which totals more than $293,000.