ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2025
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. This year, 60,000+ young leaders applied to join the Class of 2025 on 7,000+ campuses across 170 nations. 290+ campuses worldwide (less than 5%) were selected to host the 4,500+ Millennium Fellows.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT SIZE XIAO, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University | Suzhou, China | Advancing SDG 15, SDG 11 & UNAI 9
" "Creativity and ambitious, responsible and a environment-concerner. I do the work of Biodiversity Conservation in our campus because university is a special ecosystem and a part of urban ecosystem. Protecting the organisms and biodiversity in campus is the first step of protecting them in urban areas." "
Millennium Fellowship Project: XJTLU Biodiversity-Friendly Campus Construction
Our project is based at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) in Suzhou Industrial Park, China—a rapidly urbanizing area where biodiversity is declining due to excessive development. On campus, birds frequently collide with glass buildings, and green spaces lack ecological diversity. Stray cats (not considered wildlife) dominate, further disrupting the local ecosystem. To address these issues, we’re: 1) Preventing bird collisions by applying anti-bird collision stickers to high-risk windows. 2) Collecting bird collision data on all campus buildings to identify hotspots. 3) Using infrared cameras to study wildlife distribution (excluding birds and insects, which are monitored separately). 4)Building an XJTLU campus network to promote biodiversity awareness and action among students. Our goal is to make XJTLU a model for urban biodiversity conservation while inspiring long-term ecological stewardship.
About the Millennium Fellow
Size Xiao is an extroverted, responsible person who studies at Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University. She has a strong ambition of making the environment better and protecting human and other organisms. She likes birds, especially carrion crow. Attending the Millennium Fellowship project is an important experience of herself and she wants to use this fellowship to help more and more people and other organisms!
