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Hilltop 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.
View the Photo of the Week archive here.
Creek connections—Birmingham-Southern students enrolled in the Introduction to Environmental Studies course (ES 150) scour the banks and beds of Five Mile Creek in Huffman during a recent field trip to discuss different land use practices and how they relate to the creek. Five Mile Creek originates in the city of Center Point, runs underneath Hwy. 75, and then meanders through residential areas of Birmingham. “Because of channeling and unwise development and management, businesses and homes frequently flood from this creek,” said BSC Associate Biology Professor Dr. Megan Gibbons, who co-teaches the course with Jeanne Jackson, director of the Hess Center for Leadership and Service and the Leadership Studies program at BSC. “Students were asked to come up with a plan to ‘retrofit' the development around the creek to reduce problems associated with flooding and water quality.” Francesca Gross, Five Mile Creek Greenway Partnership coordinator from the Cawaco Resource Conservation and Development Council, accompanied the group and led the lab activities that day.