Edward L. Kain, professor of sociology, was on a panel at the mid-winter meetings of the American Library Association in San Antonio Jan. 21. The panel was in the sociology librarian discussion group section. The presentation was titled "Some Tips for Establishing Fruitful Relationships with Sociology Faculty." The material was prepared with Joan Parks, head of reference services, A. Frank Smith, Jr. Library.

Lynn Guziec, assistant professor of chemistry, and Frank Guziec, professor of chemistry, are co-authors on a research paper "Structure-activity study of the interaction of bioreductive benzoquinone alkylating agents with DNA topisomerase II," appearing in the latest issue of "Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology".

Helene Meyers, professor of English, presented a paper titled "Queering Sacred Time: Representing Holy Days for Gay and Lesbian Jews" at the annual meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies. Her paper was part of a panel devoted to new trends in contemporary Jewish American literature.

Teena Gabrielson, assistant professor of political science, had her essay, "Woman-Thought, Social Capital and the Generative State: Mary Austin and the Integrative Civic Ideal in Progressive Thought," accepted for publication at the /American Journal of Political Science/.

Shana Bernstein, assistant professor of history, has been invited to speak at a conference, "Latinos and Jews, Historical and Contemporary Connections," at UC Irvine Monday, Jan. 23. She will present her paper, "Collaborating against Conservatism: Jewish-Mexican American Civil Rights Coalitions in Cold War Los Angeles," alongside prominent scholars, including the current president of the Organization of American Historians.

Melissa A. Johnson, associate professor of anthropology, has her article "Racing Nature and Naturalizing Race: Rethinking the Nature of Creole and Garifuna Identities" published in Belizean Studies.

Students Ian Bothwell and Josephine Thinwa presented their research at the Texas-Missouri Branch meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in Denton, Texas. Their research, which focuses on the regulation of DNA repair and damage tolerance mechanisms, was conducted in the laboratory of Martín Gonzalez, assistant professor of biology, and funded through a three-year grant awarded from the National Institutes of Health. Thinwa's poster presentation titled "Targeting of the Escherichia coli UmuC protein for destruction by the Lon protease" was awarded outstanding undergraduate student presentation. The runner-up outstanding undergraduate student presentation went to Bothwell for his presentation "Developing a model for MucAB mutagenesis: Examination of posttranslational pathways for MucA/MucA' regulation in Escherichia coli."

Helene Meyers, professor of English, is the designated scholar for a discussion series on Jewish literature at the Austin Public Library. APL received a grant from Nextbook, a national Jewish cultural foundation, and the American Library Association to support this program.