Unveiling, presentation, and reception:

Thurs., April 22, noon, Team Lux, our Yale College Solar Racing Team, will unveil "Lux Perpetua" in the Hewitt Quadrangle (Beinecke Plaza).  "Lux Perpetua" will participate in Sunrayce '99, the 1,300-mile solar vehicle race from Washington D.C.to Orlando, FL, on June 20-29.  In October of this year, Team Lux will race "Lux Perpetua" in the World Solar Challenge in Australia.  Team Lux' 33 members major in 15 areas, including Engineering and the sciences, history, music, philosophy, and political science. The project director is Alexander Selkirk '99.   Faculty advisers are Prof. Robert Apfel, Mechanical Engineering, and Prof. Peter Kindlmann, Electrical Engineering.  Team Lux has attracted support from public and private souces, among them Hexcel Corporation and the Yale Departments of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Enginering, and Applied Physics.  The unveiling of "Lux Perpetua" includes a presentation at 6:30 pm Mason Lab, Room 211, on the design, development, and future of Yale's solar car and concludes with a reception.

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