Wayne State social work students will showcase their efforts Thursday Sept. 17, at a daylong conference titled "Social Work Students Making a Difference: The Millennium of Justice." The conference is among a week's worth of activities surrounding the inauguration of Irvin D. Reid as WSU's ninth president.

The event, sponsored by WSU's School of Social Work, runs from 8.30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Bernath Auditorium of the David Adamany Undergraduate Library. Limited to students only, the free conference features keynote speakers Creigs Beverly and Maryann Mahaffey

Beverly is a WSU professor of social work; Mahaffey is president pro-tem of the Detroit City Council and Wayne State professor emerita of social work.

Student presenters' topics include interracial relationships, the roles of women, sex offenders, social work education, parental involvement and immigrants and refugees in urban schools.

Co-sponsors for the conference, which celebrates 100 years of social work, include the University of Detroit Mercy and Marygrove College. For more information call Janet Clerk at (313) 577-4409. For more information call (313) 577-2934.