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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.
Big revelations from little creatures—Studying moths and butterflies for many years have added some dazzle to one Birmingham-Southern professor’s research. This time a collaborative project by Dr. Peter Van Zandt, visiting assistant professor of biology, and a team of BSC students is looking at whether moths emerge earlier in some areas of Birmingham than others. Throughout the summer, they will be collecting moths from BSC’s ecoscape forest, Ruffner Mountain Nature Preserve, and Turkey Creek Nature Preserve. “Our hypothesis is that because Birmingham has a heat island (it’s hotter in the city than out in rural areas) and moths develop and emerge earlier when they’re warmer, we should see moths emerging on campus earlier than out at Ruffner or Turkey Creek,” Van Zandt stated. “We don’t have the results to say whether this is true or not, but hopefully we will by the end of the summer.” Showing different displayed collections of invertebrates at the Mississippi State University Entomology Center—in another component of the project—are (top photo, from left) Henry Ard, a rising senior urban environmental studies major form Birmingham; Cameron Budzius, a rising junior biology major from Calhoun, Ga.; and Blake Tennant, a rising senior biology major from Mobile. Pictured below at Ruffner Mountain are Budzius (on left) and Tennant setting out moth traps.
