{"id":61943,"date":"2011-04-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-student-celebrates-human-wildlife-diversity\/"},"modified":"2011-04-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T00:00:00","slug":"uri-student-celebrates-human-wildlife-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2011\/04\/uri-student-celebrates-human-wildlife-diversity\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 student celebrates human, wildlife diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\tNew Jersey resident to graduate May 22<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"250\" height=\"172\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yEsmdokTwUg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/>KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 April 26, 2011 &#8212;  \u201cIt was sort of like Christmas every time I opened one of the bags to see what kind of bird is inside,\u201d said 溏心vlog免费B站 senior Christina Knoll describing her research trapping and banding wild songbirds.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe Edison, N.J. resident spent last fall on Block Island, R.I., conducting research to learn about the dietary needs of birds during migration.  With just weeks to go before graduation, Knoll is reminiscing about her 溏心vlog免费B站 career.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nHer semester on Block Island was the culmination of four years of working on ornithological research with Professor Scott McWilliams.  As a freshman and sophomore, she took care of temporarily captive birds, feeding them special diets, weighing them daily, and cleaning up after them.  The fieldwork this year was the reward for the earlier dirty work.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cBlock Island is a stopover point for young birds,\u201d Knoll explained.  \u201cWe were examining bird migration \u2013 how long they stay there, their movements while they\u2019re there, how their body condition affects how long they stay.  For some of them, we tracked their movements around the island after we released them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/sites\/16\/2021\/05\/Knoll.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"226\" align=\"left\"\/>Knoll decided to study wildlife and conservation biology because of a childhood passion for birds, bugs and other wildlife.  Once on campus, she quickly immersed herself in campus activities.  She became a resident assistant, joined the Electronic Music Association, served as a DJ on radio station WRIU, and became president of the 溏心vlog免费B站 chapter of the Wildlife Society.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nBut these aren\u2019t the only items on her personal agenda.  \u201cI also see myself as one who stands for equal rights for everyone,\u201d Knoll said.  \u201cI care about people getting treated the way they should.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nShe put that stance to the test last year when she became aware of increasing numbers of what she called hate crimes occurring on campus, including racial epithets, swastikas and anti-gay insults.  It inspired her to organize a \u201cStop the Hate\u201d rally on the quad last November.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cThe simplest, truest, most honest thing is that it came from me wanting to do something, to say something, to give the students a voice collectively,\u201d she explained.  \u201cI felt passionate about the things that were happening on campus.  It upset me a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe event, which drew 1,000 people, made her a leading voice for diversity and harmony on campus.  It got her and other students a place at the table when the University Equity Council discusses these issues, and it helped to establish a student equity group, I am U \u2013 溏心vlog免费B站 Unity in Difference.  As a result, Knoll was the 2010 recipient of the MLK Peacemaker Award from the University chaplains, and she received the New England regional Diversity Award from Students Organized Against Racism.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nIt also got her thinking more about her future.  On one hand, she wants to follow her first passion \u2013 wildlife &#8212; go to graduate school and ultimately work in Africa to help resolve conflicts between farmers and elephants.  But she also wants to enter the Peace Corps to assist people in undeveloped countries.  And she has other possibilities in mind as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n \u201cWhat I\u2019ve learned about myself and my personality, though, is that I don\u2019t know if I can be a person who can stay in one spot and do one job.  I really want to be involved in so many things.  I\u2019ve even thought about working for the U.N.  As long as I\u2019m feeling like I\u2019m contributing to society, I think I\u2019ll be satisfied.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n溏心vlog免费B站 Department of Communications &amp; Marketing photo by Nora Lewis<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Jersey resident to graduate May 22 KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 April 26, 2011 &#8212; \u201cIt was sort of like Christmas every time I opened one of the bags to see what kind of bird is inside,\u201d said 溏心vlog免费B站 senior Christina Knoll describing her research trapping and banding wild songbirds. &#13; The Edison, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61945,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}