Welcome to Birmingham-Southern's “Hilltop Photo of the Week” web page and archives. Each week at this site, we'll feature a photo that depicts some aspect of life on the Hilltop campus, along with brief information about what is taking place in the Photo of the Week.

The college welcomes submissions to be considered for the Hilltop Photo of the Week. Scanned or digital photos can be e-mailed to the Office of Communications at bwagnon@bsc.edu, or photographic prints may be sent through campus mail to Box 549004. Please limit photo submissions to those that depict some aspect of the BSC experience, and be sure to identify what is taking place in the photo, along with location and people involved.

View the Photo of the Week archive here.

Global gathering—Birmingham-Southern's Office of International Programs recently hosted Dr. Alena Hromadkova, distinguished Czech scholar and professor of political science at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Referred to by her students as a “veteran of the Cold War,” Hromadkova was the spokesperson for Charter 77, the famous human rights manifesto in Czechoslovakia which was signed in 1977 by 230 prominent Czech intellectuals. Hromadkova is credited with establishing a non-parliamentary democratic party after the fall of Communism in 1989. While on campus, Hromadkova gave a public lecture, spoke to BSC classes, and led a student roundtable discussion. Here, she is pictured (second from left) at a reception with (from left) Dr. Milan Tomana, Czech-born Birmingham resident who emigrated to the United States in 1968 and works at UAB in immunology and autoimmune diseases; Anne Ledvina, BSC associate director of international programs who is married to a Czech and BSC student Petr Ledvina; and Herb Sklenar, current trustee and former chairman of the BSC Board of Trustees and son of Czech parents.

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