Dr. Kathryn Northcut, an associate professor of English and technical communication, earned the 2015 “Best Original Collection of Essays in Technical or Scientific Communication” award from the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) for the book Designing Texts: Teaching Visual Communication. Northcut co-edited the book with Dr. Eva Brumberger, associate professor and director of the Professional Writing program at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), in 2013.