Southern-Spring 2017

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CAMPUS

by the numbers

While much of the campus will go quiet in the summer

months, BSC’s operations staff will be ramping up. The

team must get all of the rooms ready for fall in the few

short weeks after students move out—all while juggling

the needs of the thousands of summer school students

and summer campers who live and eat on the campus

during June, July, and August. Here’s a look:

full-time employees

354

gallons of

paint costing

575

work orders

2,905

185

calls for HVAC

repairs

110

toilets needing

work

beds in dorms and Greek houses

1,624

residential summer campers

2,062

day campers

1,317

BSC welcomes new

faculty, announces

faculty promotions

Three associate professors have assumed the position of full

professor at Birmingham-Southern: Scot Duncan (biology),

Randy Law (history), and Jim Neel ’71 (art). Awarded tenure and

promoted to associate professor were Melanie Styers ’99 (biology),

Chunbei Wang (economics), and Pete Van Zandt (biology).

One new faculty member joined the faculty in 2017: Amber

Wagner is assistant professor for the brand-new Creative and

Applied Computing program, which will launch in the fall.

Wagner, who has a Ph.D. in computer science from the University

of Alabama, most recently taught in the computer science

department at Kennesaw State University. She’s tasked with

helping design BSC’s much-lauded new program.

Fifteen others joined the faculty earlier this academic year:

• Jessica Allen, assistant professor of psychology

• Gina Armstrong ’92, assistant professor of library science

• Gay Barnes, assistant professor of education

• Teddy Champion, visiting assistant professor of media and

film studies

• Robert Corna, visiting instructor of media and film studies

• Kevin Drace, assistant professor of biology

• Jessica Eckhardt, assistant professor of sociology

• Katie Gibbs, assistant professor of biology

• George Hendren, visiting instructor of classics

• Rebekah Pine Parker ’09, visiting instructor of urban

environmental studies

• Tracy Smith, assistant professor of accounting

• Keely Sutton, assistant professor of religion

• Esubalew Tiruneh, visiting instructor of economics

• Joe Wiinikka-Lydon, assistant professor of religion

• Joshua Zelinsky, visiting instructor of mathematics

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