Since 1992, Cal State San Marcos has been sharing the diversity of American culture through a biannual series of performances, films and lectures.

Author and journalist Charles Slack, who will present a lecture titled "Hetty Green: The Woman Behind the Myths" at Ventfort Hall on Wednesday at 4 p.m. Refreshments and tea will follow.

Colby College will inaugurate the George J. Mitchell Distinguished Lecture Series beginning this fall, promising to bring a prominent world leader to Waterville each year to give a speech on international affairs.

Rutland's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute is a community-based organization started in 2003 with a grant from UVM, with programs selected by people like you, over-50 adults who want to keep learning, without tests or papers to write.

Some of the world's foremost thinking in natural theology is now available in an easily accessible repository. The Gifford Lectures online database, www.giffordlectures.org, will be formally launched by Templeton Foundation Press during the Edinburgh Book Festival on August 15, 2005. The site will contain a comprehensive record of the highly regarded Gifford Lectures.