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A digest of recent news releases.
14 March 2007
Oregon teachers have the opportunity to continue the learning process throughout... More
14 March 2007
While most of their peers spend the summer watching movies or going to camp, 12... More
01 March 2007
In his 17 years of writing about art, architecture, and planning for the... More
14 February 2007
The board of the Oregon Council for the Humanities (OCH) has named Cara... More
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News releases from Oregon Humanities
Free summer institutes for Oregon teachers
Oregon Council for the Humanities offers opportunities for teachers to explore science and citizenship
14 March 2007
Oregon teachers have the opportunity to continue the learning process throughout the summer by enrolling in two free institutes hosted by the Oregon Council of Humanities (OCH).
Twenty-first Century Citizen: The Transformation of American Public Life will be held at Reed College June 29-July 1, 2007 and is open to all Oregon secondary school teachers. Crossroads of Knowledge: Science and the Human Experience will be held August 6-10 at Eastern Oregon University in La Grande... More
$2,000 humanities grants offered to Oregon high school sophomores
Oregon students have the chance to apply for 12 summer grants awarded by the Oregon Council of Humanities' Young Scholars program.
14 March 2007
While most of their peers spend the summer watching movies or going to camp, 12 Oregon teenagers will have the opportunity to work on a humanities project like exploring the heady Northwest grunge era or creating a documentary film about immigration.
For the sixth year in a row, the Oregon Council for the Humanities (OCH) will award $2,000 Young Scholars grants to 12 Oregon sophomores. These grants will allow students to complete humanities research projects of their own... More
Critic calls for new direction in Oregon's architecture and land-use planning
Randy Gragg, architecture critic for the Oregonian, delivers Commonplace Lecture, "Against Nostalgia," at historic Temple Beth Israel in Portland
01 March 2007
In his 17 years of writing about art, architecture, and planning for the Oregonian newspaper, Randy Gragg says he is struck by how many of the state’s conflicts in these arenas are rooted in efforts to merely preserve the past rather than build on it.
“Preservation is an easy argument,” he says. “Articulating a theory of change is much harder. By holding on so hard to the past, I believe we, as a region, risk becoming victims of the future.”
Gragg, the Oregonian’s... More
OCH names Cara Ungar-Gutierrez as new executive director
Former director of education programs at Oregon Historical Society takes the helm in March 2007
14 February 2007
The board of the Oregon Council for the Humanities (OCH) has named Cara Ungar-Gutierrez as its new executive director, announced board chair Jill Powers Kirk on Monday. Ungar-Gutierrez, who most recently served as Director of Education for the Oregon Historical Society (OHS) in Portland, will officially assume her duties on March 5.
Ungar-Gutierrez will be the fourth executive director of OCH, which was established in 1971 by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)... More
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