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Inside
’Southern
BSC
Departments
2 Editor’s Note
4 Community News
12 Features
36 Alumni Affairs
39 Philanthropy
43 Athletics
46 ClassNotes
60 ’Southern Voices
’Southern
magazine / Fall 2014 / Volume 40, Number 2 A Publication for Alumni and Friends
On the Cover
BSC students learn by doing, and the college’s new rise3 initiative offers three pathways for
improving student learning: collaborative research, internships, and service-learning. Students
from an E-Term course on winter entomology visited a cave at Birmingham’s Ruffner Mountain
Nature Preserve to search for insects with Assistant Professor of Biology Dr. Peter Van Zandt.
Van Zandt also collaborated with students on moth research pictured on the inside back cover.
Features
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Welcoming the Class of 2018
Improving student learning
through rise3
The SEC: Celebrating 20 years