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Campus Scene IN THE SPOTLIGHT
UAB Breaks Ground on New Arts and Sciences Building
THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM (UAB) LEADERS
broke ground in September on a new 160,000-square-foot, $39.5 million Arts and Sci- ences Building that is expected to open fall 2019.
The new building will replace the UAB Humanities Building, which has served the college’s growing student population for more than 45 years. It will be home to the departments of Anthropology, Computer and Information Sciences, English, Foreign Languages and Literatures, Mathematics, Philosophy and Social Work. The building will also include a 300-seat auditorium, performance space, administrative support offices and a storm shelter.
The UAB College of Arts and Sciences serves more than 50 percent of UAB stu- dents through one of its 29 majors and 19 departments. All freshmen, regardless of their majors, are taught by Arts and Sciences faculty for their core classes. The college also offers more than 30 baccalaureate, master’s and doctoral degrees.
Ask the Expert
This Month
Pest Control
How can we solve a
rodent problem?
IT’S CRITICAL THAT PEST PROBLEMS BE
identified and addressed quickly, as rodents breed rapidly — a single pair of rats can multiply into 640 within a year, and mice can multiply to over 1,000. Stopping them for good means finding the points of entry and sealing them up to prevent future invasion. Following are some of the most common entry points and exclusion solutions. Remember, when conduct- ing your inspection that mice can fit through a gap of about one-quarter of an inch, and rats through a gap of three-eighths of an inch.
Common Entry Points and Solutions
• Exterior doors. Damaged or worn out sweeps are one of the most common entry points. Most
standard brush or vinyl sweeps are good at keeping out the weather but not good at keep- ing out mice and rats. All doors should be fitted with specialized rodent-proof door sweeps.
• Vents and grilles. These should be protected with screen or mesh. Ensure any voids or gaps around them are filled with a pest-exclusion fill material.
• Drain pipes. Rats are excellent swimmers. Make sure exterior drain and sewer access points are covered with an appropriate metal cover. Openings surrounding the drain should be patched or filled with exclusion material.
• Vertical wires and pipes. Mice and rats are excellent climbers. Circular rat guards should be placed around all vertical wires and pipes.
• Utility and other building penetrations. Check the places where pipes, wires or HVAC enter the building and fill any gaps with a pest-exclusion fill material.
Ensure the exterior of the building, especially around the foundation, is free from harborage areas such as shrubs and ground cover, and eliminate any “bridges” to the roof, such as overhanging trees.
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Higher Education
Climate
Leadership Summit
Second Nature and the Intentional Endowments Network will host the 2018 Higher Education Climate Leader- ship Summit focused on cross-sectoral collaboration, and grand solutions to the climate challenge. Both Second Nature and the Intentional Endowments Network are built on the belief that net- works support, facilitate, generate and encourage higher education’s leadership on climate action.
Including speakers from the sectors involved in the We Are Still In coali-
tion, the Summit will relate big ideas to tangible actions with senior leadership teams leaving the event well prepared to take the most effective next steps indi- vidually, collectively and across sectors. By bringing together key players from a variety of sectors as featured speakers, leaders at colleges and universities will understand national trends, and strat- egize about how higher education can capitalize on innovative solutions.
The summit will take place Febru- ary 4-6, 2018, in Tempe, AZ. For more information, visit http://secondnature. org/how-we-connect/2018summit.
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