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.

Learning from a real ecosystem—Birmingham-Southern students enrolled in an introductory biology course on campus this summer recently bussed out to nearby Shades Creek (a tributary of the Cahaba River) for a field experience. Their mission was to take water samples from the creek and collect benthic macroinvertebrates (crawfish, snails, and insect larvae) and measure stream characteristics (current flow and substrate composition). Under the supervision of Professor of Biology Dr. Andy Gannon, the students are part of the course “Explorations in Biology: Alabama Biodiversity Lab.” Pictured with Gannon (in hat) more prominently are Savannah Simmons, a rising sophomore business major from Daphne, and Collin Janich, a rising senior English major from Birmingham.

Photo by Cavin Urquhart

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