Student Life

A team of Lee College of Engineering students will join competitors from around the world at the 31st annual National Concrete Canoe Competition, being held June 23-25 at San Diego State University.

Four members of UNC Charlotte’s 2018 national championship Men’s Rugby Club team recently were named honorary Men’s Collegiate All Americans Sevens recipients.

On May 31, 137 members of the Pride of Niner Nation Marching Band departed from campus to begin a journey to Normandy, France, where they will be the first university band from North Carolina to represent the United States at an annual commemoration of the D-Day invasion.

The UNC Charlotte Astrobotics Robotic Team, the 49er Miners, recently finished third in the Caterpillar Autonomy Award at the 2018 NASA Robotic Mining Competition at Kennedy Space Center.  The team joined an elite group of few schools in the history of the competition to accomplish a fully autonomous mining run (approximately 50 colleges and universities have competed each year for the past nine years).

Two UNC Charlotte alums are racing in NASCAR’s Xfinity Series and competed in Saturday’s Alsco 300 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

UNC Charlotte’s 2018 Men’s Rugby Club team recently won the national championship for the Men’s Division 2 College 7s in Glendale, Colorado.

The Lee College of Engineering’s 49er Rocketry Team recently placed second in the nation in the 2018 NASA Student Launch competition, the highest finish in the team’s history.

Charlotte 49ers student-athletes donated a record 5,000-plus hours of community service to the Charlotte area and surrounding communities during the 2017-18 academic year.

In large part, the donated hours benefitted local charitable organizations. Many activities, like visits to the Levine Children’s Hospital and area elementary schools or clinics/presentations at Education Day and National Girls and Women in Sports Day directly affected children.

James (Jim) M. Hoppa, senior associate vice chancellor for student union, activities and recreation (SUAR) in the Division of Student Affairs, will retire Friday, June 1, after 36 years of distinguished service, leadership and dedication to student life at UNC Charlotte.

A retirement reception in Hoppa’s honor is scheduled for 2 to 4 p.m., Tuesday, May 29, in the Popp Martin Student Union, Room 340GHI.

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships support outstanding graduate students. Devin Clegg and Corbin Grohol are two such students, and they are the latest UNC Charlotte recipients of this prestigious award.