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With the most recent forecast calling for a 50 percent chance of rain Saturday morning and scattered thunderstorms throughout the day, seniors taking part in Commencement are reminded to visit Alamance 109 before this afternoon to receive two tickets for guests who will watch the ceremony inside Alumni Gym should weather force the program indoors.

Events leading up to Commencement 2010 take place this week as Â鶹ÊÓƵ prepares to graduate its 120th undergraduate class, its MBA and Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law class, and its inaugural class in the iMedia graduate program. Activities for seniors start May 18, with a class picnic, an evening gala, receptions and dinners on the agenda.

New alumni can now download a customized news release announcing their graduation from Â鶹ÊÓƵ as part of the Class of 2010.

Imploring students to serve the communities where they will live, the Rev. Richard McBride used his Commencement address on May 23, 2009, to encourage the largest graduating class in Â鶹ÊÓƵ history to find “the place where what you most need to do to fulfill your life intersects with what you believe the world most needs to have done.”

The Rev. Sam Wells, dean of Duke University Chapel, will deliver Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s 2010 Baccalaureate sermon on Friday, May 21, at 3 p.m. in the Koury Athletic Center.

Forty-two undergraduate and MBA students were inducted into the Beta Gamma Sigma international business honor society Tuesday afternoon in a ceremony that welcomed honorary inductee Allen E. Gant Jr., a member of the university’s board of trustees and its immediate past chair.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ Career Services has started utilizing Google Map system technology to highlight student outcomes and networking opportunities. Maps have been created as part of the ongoing effort to highlight direct measures of student success to the campus community.

Some of the top students on campus were honored April 24, 2010, during an annual awards program that recognizes the accomplishments of African-American students at Â鶹ÊÓƵ.