Photo of the Week

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.

Landmine awareness—The United Nations Association chapter at Birmingham-Southern recently sponsored the annual event “A Night of a Thousand Dinners” on campus to benefit the U.N.'s Adopt-A-Minefield program. The program is a global fundraising campaign created for and by students to help clear minefields, assist survivors, and raise awareness about the landmine problem. According to the UNICEF, approximately 18,000 people are killed or maimed by landmines each year, and nearly 40 percent of those are children. On about the same date, tens of thousands of individuals around the world joined their friends, family, co-workers, and neighbors to host social and food-related gatherings and raise funds for mine clearance and survivor assistance. Pictured at the event are (from left) Kruti Gandhi, a BSC senior from Hoover; Dr. Max Michael, dean of the UAB School of Public Health; Nico Arciniegas, a BSC sophomore and SGA member from Mountain Brook; Jane Munga, a Ph.D. student at the University of Alabama who has worked as a policy advisor with the U.N. Development Programme's Mine Action initiative in Yemen; and Ben Miller, a BSC sophomore from Hoover. Gandhi and Miller are co-presidents of the Birmingham-Southern chapter of the UNA, and all three BSC students helped plan the event.

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