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Hilltop Photo of the Week
Welcome to Birmingham-Southern's “Hilltop Photo of the Week” webpage 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 pcole@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.
Economics and ecology—Several Birmingham-Southern students took advantage of opportunities to further their academics with international study and research over the summer. Christianna Denelsbeck, a junior economics major from Tuscaloosa, studied at the prestigious London School of Economics with renowned development economist Kumar Aniket. She is pictured above on the London campus (front row, third from left) with the members of her undergraduate class who hailed from such schools as Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, and who were from countries such as Turkey, Spain, and Lebanon. LSE has celebrated 16 Nobel Prize winners and is among the world's most selective universities. Kate LeCroy, a senior biology major and Harrison Scholar from Pleasant Grove (below), worked at the Blandy Experimental Farm in Boyce, Va., as a research fellow with the National Science Foundation. She explored how male fertility in the yellow monkeyflower (Mimulus guttatus) was affected by both inbreeding and indirectly by trade-offs due to investment in costly defensive traits (trichomes) by calculating pollen quality and using bumble bees. She spent 11 weeks writing a proposal, performing and presenting her research, and producing a final paper. “The BSC Biology Department encouraged me to apply,” she said. “It was a life-changing experience.”
