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David S. Luft, the Horning Professor in the Humanities in Oregon State University?s History Department, will give a free public lecture on the humanities today at OSU.The North Carolina Humanities Council, a 37-year-old statewide nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, has announced six new members for its board.Reagan High School teacher Mark Hansen has received a prestigious honor from the organization Humanities Texas.University of Houston-Clear Lake students graduating in December 2008 from the School of Human Sciences and Humanities? applied design and visual arts program will be the first in the university?s history to be awarded a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.With more funding anticipated in 2009 for public art projects, the Bainbridge Island Arts & Humanities Council is asking residents to help plan the scope and nature of art around the city.More U.S. students are studying abroad than ever before, and they're choosing an increasingly diverse array of destinations, a new report says.The Salina Arts & Humanities Commission is accepting applications until Dec. 1 for the Organizational Project and Organizational Advancement categories of the Horizons Grant Program. Who doesn't love culture and the arts? The celebration of life's faceted dramas? If you know what we're talking about, this festival is for you. Conservative MPs are to get compulsory lessons in scientific literacy under a plan to strengthen evidence-based policy-making.Alex Beam relates how Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Adler and a few others whittled the literary, scientific and philosophical canon down to 443 exemplary works to be included in their Great Books of the Western World.Yahoo! News Search Results for Humanities
