Dr. Pia Wood Named New Director of CIE

I am pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Pia Wood as associate vice provost and director of the Center for International Education. She began her appointment October 8.

Wood spent the past eight years as director for the Center for International Studies at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C. Prior to that, she spent six years as director of the International Studies undergraduate program at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va.

Prior to leading international education programs, Wood was an assistant professor and associate professor in the department of political science and geography at Old Dominion and a visiting professor in the Department of National Security Studies at the Air War College at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama. She taught at Bates Colleges in Lewiston, Maine, and at the Woodrow Wilson School for Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia.

I am excited to welcome Dr. Wood to UT, and we all look forward to working with her as she plays a key role in our Ready for the World initiative.

For more information about Dr. Wood and the Center for International Education, please refer to the university's announcement.

Posted: October 17, 2007