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ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ has released its President's List and Dean's List academic recognitions for the 2010 spring semester.

A university senior and his family want to raise awareness of suicide prevention strategies as they compete for a $50,000 grant from the Pepsi Refresh Project, and he needs the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ community’s help with online voting for the Hold Hope Initiative in memory of his brother.

Hundreds of students, and nearly as many professors and administrators, mingled Wednesday afternoon on the green outside Moseley Center in the annual Senior Class Picnic for Graduates, Faculty and Staff. The informal event gives seniors a moment to relax over pork barbecue and grilled chicken with the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ educators who guided them through four years of study.

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 ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ prepares to graduate its 120th undergraduate class, its MBA and ÂÒÂ×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 ÂÒÂ×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 ÂÒÂ×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.”