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Senator to speak at commencement   U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham is scheduled to speak at MUSC's 177th commencement.   Commencement ceremonies will begin at 9 a.m. on Friday, May 19 on the Horseshoe of the MUSC campus. Approximately 800 students will receive degrees from the university’s six colleges.   Graham was elected to the Senate in 2002, replacing 48-year-veteran Strom Thurmond. Prior to that, Graham served in the South Carolina House of Representatives (elected in 1992) and the U. S. House of Representatives (elected in 1994), where he became the first Republican to represent the Third Congressional District since 1877.   An attorney by occupation, Graham logged six-and-a- half years active duty as an Air Force lawyer. Upon leaving active duty status in 1989, Graham joined the South Carolina Air National Guard, where he served until his election to Congress in 1994.  During the first Gulf War, he was called to active duty and served at McEntire Air Force Base as staff judge advocate.   Since 1995, he has continued to serve in the U.S. Air Force Reserves and is the only U.S. senator currently serving in the National Guard or Reserves. He holds the rank of colonel and is assigned as a reserve judge to the Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals.   As a senator, he serves on four committees: Armed Services, Judiciary, Budget and Veterans Affairs.   Graham will receive the honorary degree Doctor of Humane Letters. Also receiving Doctor of Humane Letters during the May 19 ceremony are: Charles E. Volpe, retired president and COO of KEMET Corp. and a member of the board of MUSC’s Heart and Vascular Center; Rep. Daniel T. Cooper, chairman of the South Carolina House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee; Louis DeWolff, chairman of DeWolff, Boberg and Associates, a management consulting firm, who established an endowed chair in medical oncology at the Hollings Cancer Center. Receiving the honorary degree Doctor of Medical Science, honoris causa, will be Robert M. Sinskey, M.D., medical director emeritus of the Southern California Lion’s Eye Institute and clinical professor of ophthalmology at the Jules Stein Eye Institute at UCLA. Sinskey is considered a pioneer in the development of posterior chamber intraocular lenses.     Friday, May 12, 2006 Catalyst Online is published weekly, updated as needed and improved from time to time by the MUSC Office of Public Relations for the faculty, employees and students of the Medical University of South Carolina. Catalyst Online editor, Kim Draughn, can be reached at 792-4107 or by email, catalyst@musc.edu. Editorial copy can be submitted to Catalyst Online and to The Catalyst in print by fax, 792-6723, or by email to catalyst@musc.edu. To place an ad in The Catalyst hardcopy, call Island Publications at 849-1778, ext. 201.