While areas like science and the arts might not often intersect, the opportunity to combine them into one path of study gives many UA students the means to pursue their passions.
Nathan Barker, a senior majoring in music performance, spends long days attending science labs, music classes and ensemble rehearsals before retreating to the Billingsley Music Building, where he spends late nights working to perfect his clarinet repertoire. Barker, who plans to use his musical background in the medical world, also makes time between classes to conduct research in the Music Cognition Lab, where he studies the relationship between music and the brain in depth.