UA's Sigma Pi Fraternity recently completed a landscaping project on campus.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The University of Alabama Theta Omicron Chapter of Sigma Pi Fraternity recently completed their Altruistic Campus Experience, or ACE Project, planting more than 400 shrubs along the southeast corner of the UA Quad earlier this month.

The program is part of the fraternity’s national special project to implement and evaluate specifically approved needs of each individual campus. The Sigma Pi ACE program began in 2003 after chapters decided at their mid-year leadership conference that more needed to be done to help host institutions. This project is taking place on every campus that has a chapter of Sigma Pi Fraternity across North America

“It was great to see the undergraduates get together and have the initiative to create a program to benefit their scholastic institutions,” said Andrew Smith, Sigma Pi Fraternity's director of communications. “The undergraduates have been active in finding the best ways to benefit their institutions and faculty. This program will not replace our numerous philanthropies for the Red Cross or local charities, but it has become a priority for our men, who recognize that not enough is done to help our teachers and schools.”

Sigma Pi Fraternity was founded in Vincennes, Ind., at Vincennes University in 1897. There are currently 113 chapters and 9 colonies in the United States and Canada with more than 81,000 alumni.