{"id":65413,"date":"2007-05-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/providence-resident-heading-to-indonesia\/"},"modified":"2007-05-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-08T00:00:00","slug":"providence-resident-heading-to-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2007\/05\/providence-resident-heading-to-indonesia\/","title":{"rendered":"Providence resident heading to Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tIt\u2019ll be a jungle out there for Rhody rowing captain

\n after graduation<\/p>\n


\nKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 8, 2007 \u2013 A desire to not let anyone down and a love of what she does helped 溏心vlog免费B站 senior Arianna Mouradjian excel in her multiple roles at the University. <\/p>\n


\n\tAs one of the captains of the 溏心vlog免费B站 varsity rowing team, Providence native Mouradjian has been rowing only for four years, having joined the team as a walk-on novice in her freshman year. Mouradjian, who is one of the team\u2019s coxswains, has also rowed with the Narragansett Boat Club Masters women\u2019s team. <\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI was able to cox with the Masters my freshman and sophomore years,\u201d said Mouradjian. \u201cThey are a very strong group of women and I gained a lot of valuable experience rowing with them.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\t溏心vlog免费B站 first-year head coach Shelagh Donohoe said she would miss Mouradjian\u2019s leadership, confidence, and positive attitude the most.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cArianna was great with my transition as a first-year coach,\u201d said Donohoe. \u201cShe is the complete package. She is a great person, a great racer, and a great student. She has an extremely positive attitude and is always willing to give up a piece of herself for the team.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tIn addition to rowing, Mouradjian, a wildlife and conservation biology major, has worked at the Coastal Institute as a secretarial assistant. Mouradjian also interned with a graduate student researching the nutritional requirements of migratory songbirds. <\/p>\n


\nShe is also an Earth Scout leader, helping teach natural history to a group of home-schooled children and their parents. <\/p>\n


\n\tIn addition to all of her extracurricular activities, Mouradjian has excelled in her academic course load, making the dean\u2019s list six out of eight semesters. She will graduate cum laude this month. <\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI truly enjoy my major and I like doing well,\u201d said Mouradjian. \u201cI am very close to many of the professors in my department, and if I didn\u2019t do well I would feel as though I was letting them, and myself, down. It also helps that I am very passionate about the subjects of wildlife and conservation. It has been difficult balancing my work load with rowing, but school comes first.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nMouradjian has made such an impact on her national resource professors Thomas Husband and David Abedon that they invited her, along with eight other students, to their annual expedition to Costa Rica. There they surveyed mammalian diversity on coffee plantations for four weeks, staying in the workers\u2019 bunkhouses. <\/p>\n


\n\u201cWe looked at the distribution of mammals on coffee plots in comparison to forest plots,\u201d Mouradjian said. \u201cCoffee farming is such a large industry in Central and South America and it consumes a significant amount of land. It is important for us to monitor the impacts human development is having on the native flora and fauna.\u201d <\/p>\n


\nAfter graduation, Mouradjian will travel to Indonesia with the United Kingdom-based group Operation Wallacea, a conservation and research organization. With the help of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Alumni Association, which is partially funding the trip, Mouradjian will be taking jungle and cultural training courses, monitoring forest biodiversity including insects, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and mammals, taking diver training courses, surveying the coral reef, and looking at cross-island speciation of birds on the island surrounding Sulawesi.<\/p>\n


\nMouradjian may take a year off before attending graduate school in the fall of 2008. \u201cI\u2019m really going to miss my team and being part of such a strong group of women,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m not going to know what to do with my time now. I won\u2019t have class and I won\u2019t have rowing. After I return from Indonesia, I plan on volunteering abroad.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nPictured above

\nArianna Mouradjian, 溏心vlog免费B站 photo by Michael Salerno, photography<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019ll be a jungle out there for Rhody rowing captain after graduation KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 8, 2007 \u2013 A desire to not let anyone down and a love of what she does helped 溏心vlog免费B站 senior Arianna Mouradjian excel in her multiple roles at the University. As one of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65415,"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-65413","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\/65413","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=65413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}