University Writing Program Director Carl Whithaus Receives National Award

Congratulations to Carl Whithaus, who received the Charles Moran Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Field at the May 2012 Computers and Writing Conference!

As cited by the University Writing Program news article, “The award committee said that ‘Carl has done more than most to push our field into a better multimodal mindset, and his life work evidences a deep commitment to the field of computers and writing,’ and commended him as one of the ‘hardest working composition researchers and best practitioners.’”

In addition to serving as University Writing Program director, Whithaus is the Educational Technology Subcommittee Co-Chair at UC Davis, and is in the process of developing Davis’ hybrid and online introductory writing course.