{"id":67044,"date":"2006-05-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/east-providence-resident-set-to-graduate-uri-as-top-wildlife-biology-student\/"},"modified":"2006-05-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-10T00:00:00","slug":"east-providence-resident-set-to-graduate-uri-as-top-wildlife-biology-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2006\/05\/east-providence-resident-set-to-graduate-uri-as-top-wildlife-biology-student\/","title":{"rendered":"East Providence resident set to graduate 溏心vlog免费B站 as top wildlife biology student"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. — May 10, 2006 — Although Grace Lentini knew early on that she wanted a career working with animals, it took her a while to decide on a college major. She started out in marine biology, then shifted to animal veterinary science, and finally settled on wildlife and conservation biology. Now she is preparing to graduate from the 溏心vlog免费B站 on May 21 as the top wildlife biology student and recipient of the President\u2019s Award for Student Excellence.<\/p>\n


\n\tA resident of East Providence, Lentini is described by her faculty members as the consummate wildlife biologist who has taken full advantage of experiential learning opportunities through several research projects.<\/p>\n


\n\tFollowing her sophomore year at 溏心vlog免费B站, she interned at Roger Williams Park Zoo to learn about efforts to breed short-beaked echidnas \u2013 an egg laying mammal from Australia \u2013 in captivity. A year later she was named a Coastal Fellow and spent a summer scuba diving in the Caribbean to study a threatened snail.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThey\u2019re easy to find and they\u2019re a very tasty local dish, so people eat them quite frequently,\u201d Lentini said. \u201cThat\u2019s part of the reason why they\u2019re threatened. We were trying to find out about their basic population dynamics to prevent their potential extinction.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tLast summer, the 溏心vlog免费B站 student learned to identify birds by song as a means to survey declining birds in grasslands and shrublands in Rhode Island. \u201cWe were surveying in particular fields that were going to be managed by the Department of Environmental Management, and we wanted to know what the bird and vegetation community would look like before and after the management.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tThis research project convinced Lentini that wildlife biology was the right career choice for her. \u201cI liked it because I was outside every single day and I was getting to know the wildlife and the nature around me. It\u2019s cool to walk outside and look at something and be able to name it. And then you get to know their habitat, when they breed, their breeding plumage — there\u2019s just so many things to learn. That\u2019s what really interests me.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tLentini is completing her undergraduate college career with a semester at Humboldt State University in northern California to learn about ecosystems along the West Coast. \u201cI love the mountains and the trees out here,\u201d she said, \u201cso I\u2019m trying to be outside as much as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tAfter graduation, the 22-year-old student plans to spend a few years taking seasonal field biology positions \u2013 perhaps conducting research on swift foxes in the Southwest or bats in Pennsylvania \u2013 before continuing on for a graduate degree.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cOver the next couple years I want to really narrow down what sort of species I\u2019m most interested in working with and learning the techniques I\u2019d need to use to study them,\u201d said Lentini, who received a scholarship from the Weekapaug Foundation for Conservation in 2005.<\/p>\n


\n\tBecause she likes big mammals and big mountains, she hopes to spend at least some of that time in the Rocky Mountain States. \u201cBut being in California this semester has shown me that I\u2019m definitely a New Englander, so eventually I\u2019ll definitely settle back in New England, maybe to Maine or New Hampshire,\u201d Lentini said.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. — May 10, 2006 — Although Grace Lentini knew early on that she wanted a career working with animals, it took her a while to decide on a college major. She started out in marine biology, then shifted to animal veterinary science, and finally settled on wildlife and conservation biology. Now she is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67046,"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-67044","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\/67044","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=67044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}