Wonder Makes Us Arizona

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Learning Together

“The Biosphere 2 ocean is such a unique system,” Hailey Bowers says. At her undergraduate UArizona orientation, she learned about the Marine Awareness and Conservation Society and instantly joined. That led her to getting involved at the Biosphere. “I’ve volunteered since my sophomore year hands-on, dumping salt into the mixers, and eventually ended up where I am in my lab now as a master’s student studying how interactions with coral and their microbiome may help with their thermal tolerance and resilience to climate change.”

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Wonder in the Detail

Xander Gómez started out as a business major, but an inspiring internship at an architecture firm led him to immediately change his major. Now he’s a fifth-year architecture student who worked on a build of the rowhouses south of campus as part of a capstone experience in the College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture. 

"Collaboration is probably the No. 1 thing in architecture, because no one person can do every single job,” he says. “You absolutely need a team of people. And if all the people on that team are aligned and ready to go, projects usually turn out amazing. When we wonder together, we achieve beauty.” 

Working on the rowhouse project, he says, “Little details that you see around that end up being super beautiful within the house are all mostly on the fly. I’ve designed a ton of details around the house that people might not appreciate. But if you have the eye for it, you can find the wow in small details. That’s where I get my sense of joy out of architecture.”

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