Bruce Maylath, professor of English, delivered the paper “Responding to Field Convergence: Updating Curricula and Programs as the Roles of Technical Communicators and Technical Translators Merge” at the 2011 meeting of the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication.

The conference was hosted by James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va., Oct. 6-8. A past president of the council, Maylath also moderated the meeting’s program administrators’ roundtable and chaired its Distinguished Service Award Committee.