1. WONDER MAKES ME TAKE CHANCES

    Claudia Molina, Class of ‘20Hometown: Rio Rico, ArizonaMajor: Fine Arts, Emphasis in Graphic Design “I loved taking photos growing up. I was always called the photographer of the family. I was being silly, it was nothing I studied for. But, I didn’t know then that years later we’d go back to them and we could […]

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  2. WONDER MAKES ME DESIGN

    Melissa Requist, Class of ‘21Hometown: Steamboat Springs, COMajors: Biomedical Engineering and Music Performance “I grew up in a really small town—a great town. Ski town. I actually grew up doing ski jumping and Nordic Combined,” explains senior Melissa Requist. She also started playing the flute in the fifth grade, which progressed into honor band and […]

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  3. WONDER MAKES ME REACH

    Hayley Meier, Class of ‘20Hometown: Rochester, NYPursuing a master’s in dance, with an emphasis on performance and choreography Hayley Meier began dancing when she was three years old. She says, “I remember going to this dance competition when I was 10. It was in Florida and I had seen these girls performing, and I was […]

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  4. Better Together: University Pen Pals

    As a winner of the #BearDownMaskUp Challenge, dance major Christina Calden hopes to keep students connected via the University Pen Pals. This new program aims to link students via letters, email and zoom calls, allowing connections to be built while socially distanced. UPDATE from Christina … “The University Pen Pals concept was successful during the […]

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  5. Arizona Arts Studio Series … inside the flute studio

    What’s it like inside the flute studio at the Fred Fox School of Music … during COVID. Hear professor Brian Luce and students Kaissy Yau and Melissa Requist discuss reentry and playing on stage at Centennial Hall; and see what role kinesiology and biomechanics has with improving flute performance. Arizona Arts Studio Series takes you […]

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  6. A musical field experience in New York City

    At the invitation of the New York Philharmonic Archives, several music graduate students researched the Austrian composer and conductor Gustav Mahler (1860–1911), who spent his final years in New York City.

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