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More than 200 Syracuse City School District parents will be attending the Syracuse Family Leadership Conference on Saturday, May 22, in the Life Sciences Complex on the Syracuse University campus. The conference, sponsored by the Syracuse City School District Parent Partnership Network, Say Yes to Education and Prevention Network, will offer parents more than 30 workshops in the areas of student achievement, building stronger families and parent/child communication.

The Brookings Institution tabbed Syracuse University Chancellor and President Nancy Cantor to serve on a distinguished panel assembled to discuss its recently released major report, “The State of Metropolitan America: On the Front Lines of Demographic Transformation.”

Nine distinguished guests will share their global experiences and perspectives.

The Syracuse University School of Education’s Mobile Literacy Arts Bus (MLAB) and the local community are working on an art initiative that aims to raise $700,000 to remove lead from the soil in New Orleans.

News for Monday, May 10

The Syracuse University Library announces the purchase of the Web of Science archive. Coverage of both the Science Citation Index and the Social Sciences Citation Index now extends from 1900-present. The Arts and Humanities Citation Index now covers from 1975-present. Previous coverage for all three databases was from 1985-present.

Syracuse University has entered into an agreement with Brand-Yourself.com, an online reputation management platform that helps individuals tap the Web to maximize job opportunities.

Women in Information Technology (WIT), a student-led organization at the School of Information Studies, recently partnered with the Syracuse Chapter of Nanhi Kali to help raise money to educate young girls in India.

Syracuse University is one of the country’s most environmentally-responsible colleges according to The Princeton Review. The nationally known education services company selected SU for inclusion in a unique new resource it has created for college applicants, “The Princeton Review’s Guide to 286 Green Colleges.”

A unique three-year longitudinal and vertical study of Central New York’s Three Rivers system—involving the Oswego, Oneida and Seneca rivers—has revealed that oxygen resources have become degraded by several stressors, including the impact of wastewater treatment plants, nonpoint runoff, an increase in invasive zebra mussels and channelization of the flow.