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perspective on cultural differences. “I thought I would be able to deal with this just fine,” Webb explained. “But being here has made me realize that I’m addicted to organization and efficiency, and I’m definitely not as patient a person as I thought I was.” The Tanzanian people have been extremely welcoming and she finds it easy to connect with the people as true friends. For example, her Tanzanian roommate offered to share her dinner with Webb on the first day they met. Her experience has made her more

Chancellor’s Professor of the History of Christian Art at Vanderbilt University will give the keynote address, “The Victory of the Cross in Early Christian Art: Transforming the Iconography of Conquest.” Her talk on Feb. 12 at 7:30 p.m. in the Scandinavian Cultural Center is the inaugural Alice Kjesbu Torvend Lecture in Christian Art. “She’s the primary North American expert of early Christianity,” Torvend said. “She has done groundbreaking work in terms of how Christian images have served as challenges to

ten years,” said David Joyner, director of jazz studies and producer of the concert series. “It is a testament to PLU’s commitment to America’s unique cultural treasure, the wealth of jazz artists in the Northwest and the discerning tastes of the Jazz Under the Stars audience,” he continued. To mark the milestone, an extra concert is being added to the line-up this summer. The Jazz Under the Stars 10th Anniversary Gala features a unique double bill, renowned jazz musicians Pearl Django and Greta

Charitable Trust will fund three student-faculty research projects. Each year, the trust funds dozens of projects that will enhance the quality of life in the Pacific Northwest by providing grants and enrichment programs to organizations seeking to strengthen the region’s educational, spiritual, and cultural base in creative and sustainable ways. In 2009, the trust funded 43 scientific projects with $2.9 million in grants. “The foundation feels it’s important to support scientific exploration of the

pharaoh Hatshepsut, who ruled from around 1502 to 1482 B.C. Since the original dig in 1989, he has returned several times to continue the PLU Valley of the Kings Project. Ryan will speak about the most recent discoveries during a talk this week at the Scandinavian Cultural Center in the UC from 7 to 9 p.m. on Wed., Sept. 29. Lawrence M. Berman from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston will also be there to describe the contents of another tomb discovered in 1915 in middle Egypt. The Valley of the Kings

facing difficult and uncertain times in our future and it’s all related to the environment,” said Pavel, whose traditional name is CHiXapkaid. “We need to connect to those animal people and we need to connect to those plant people.” Pavel lead a special presentation for Earth Day, entitled “Connecting to Everything on Earth: Its Land, Waters, and Peoples (Plant, Animal, and Human),” on Tuesday, April 17, in the Scandinavian Cultural Center. Rather than telling the hundred-some students, staff

are not just stewards of nature, but view themselves instead as a part of all nature and the ecological system, he continued.  Before a full-house in the Scandinavian Cultural Center of the Anderson University Center, Rasmussen, the Reinhold Neibuhr Professor Emeritus of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary in New York, gave the keynote for the Lutheran Studies Conference – Lutheran Perspectives on Political Life: “What has God to do with Caesar?” “Ours is not the same planet our ancestors