David J. Tietge's Rational Rhetoric: The Role of Science in Popular Discourse (Parlor Press) has been named the winner of JAC's Gary A. Olson Award for most outstanding book in rhetorical and cultural theory. -- 26 May 2010.

Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy is pleased to announce the 2010 winners of the Best Webtext, John Lovas Memorial Weblog, and TA/Adjunct Awards. Awards were presented at the 2010 Computers and Writing Conference at Purdue University.

Best Webtext Award

Susan H. Delagrange, for "Wunderkammer, Cornell, and the Visual Canon of Arrangement," which appeared in Kairos 13.2

John Lovas Memorial Weblog Award

A tie between Viz (Digital Writing and Research Lab, University of Texas at Austin) and ProfHacker (Chronicle of Higher Education)

TA/Adjunct Awards

TECHNOLOGY INNOVATOR AWARD

Deadline for nominations: April 25, 2010

The CCCC Committee on Computers in Composition and Communication will honor an innovator in our community at the 2010 Computers and Writing Conference at Purdue University, and we need your help to identify a person who has pushed our field regarding excellence in teaching, more rigorous scholarship, and deeper levels of service.

Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, Pedagogy seeks nominations for its annual awards for 2010.

• The Kairos Best Webtext Award for the best academic webtext published in the previous academic year (the webtext does not have to be published in Kairos).
• The John Lovas Memorial Academic Weblog Award (formerly Kairos Best Academic Weblog Award) for an outstanding blog devoted largely to academic pursuits.
• The Kairos Awards for Graduate Students and Adjuncts (formerly the Kairos/Lore Awards), a series of three awards to recognize outstanding contributions in teaching, research, and service to the field of Computers and Writing by graduate students and non-tenure-track faculty. (These three awards are co-sponsored by Bedford/St. Martin's Press.)