Student Experience

Meet the University of Texas Solar Vehicles Team, a student club on campus that designs, builds, tests and races cars powered by the sun.

The Graduate School marks its 100th anniversary this year.

Two opportunities for students have come across the Know desk recently: A new government internship Web site and a fellowship opportunity for doctoral students.

Graduating mechanical engineering student Edgar Jimenez faces challenges every day. But it’s nothing he can’t handle.

To celebrate the achievements of the class of 2010, the Tower will be lighted orange with the number “10” for the evenings of Dec. 4 and 5.

The Nov. 30 weekly roundup of campus kudos and press mentions.

Holden Thorp, chancellor of The University of North Carolina, lauds the research potential of the university’s Intellectual Entrepreneurship initiative.

Speakers for fall convocation ceremonies by schools and colleges at The University of Texas at Austin on Dec. 4 and 5, include a corporate executive, university scholars and a Pulitzer Prize winner.

Songs of the Season, a traditional holiday event at The University of Texas at Austin, will bring together students, faculty and staff at noon on Dec. 3, to celebrate the holiday season and the generosity of people who have contributed to the university’s Orange Santa gift program.

In 1941 University of Texas at Austin students met with a local fortune teller to put a hex on Texas AandM and stop the jinx the Aggies had on the Longhorns.

After an extensive, community-based redesign process, the university debuts a new Web presence.