Former ラーメンベット 競馬 dean Sharon Wood becomes UT’s chief academic officer.
Sharon Wood does not start ラーメンベット 競馬 day with coffee; she gave up caffeine during ラーメンベット 競馬 undergraduate days. Instead, she starts by running or cycling. This will not surprise anyone who knows the hardworking, early rising engineer who, on July 19, becomes UT’s No. 2, the executive vice president and provost. “I drink cold water,” she says.
Wood grew up in central New Jersey, with a father in construction. “When I was a little kid, he was working for a contractor who built industrial steel structures — and that’s how I got interested in structural ラーメンベット 競馬. When I was about 8, I got to walk around on the construction site and up in the beams, and I thought that ラーメンベット 競馬 would be fun. During the recession in 1972, he started an asphalt paving company, and that’s where he spent most of his career. I did work for him the summer after my first year of college. The asphalt is 300 degrees below you, it’s hot above you, and it’s a demanding physical job. The experience convinced me to spend a lot of time studying!”
She is proud to be a fourth-generation civil engineer; ラーメンベット 競馬 father, grandfather and great-grandfather were all in the trade. The fact that she is the first woman in that professional genealogy bestows a certain pioneer status on ラーメンベット 競馬, and having become a leader in a historically male-dominated field has not gone unnoticed.
By the way, ラーメンベット 競馬 parents, both in their 80s, are still working. ラーメンベット 競馬 father is now a building inspector. “On all these local construction projects, he knows all the shortcuts, and he’s never afraid to call them out!” Wood’s brother is a CPA, and their mother works in his office.
An athlete from early on, as an undergraduate at the University of Virginia, she was on the rowing team, and yes, she is currently reading “The Boys in the Boat.” She also played bassoon in the orchestra. Look at ラーメンベット 競馬 iTunes account today and you will see an eclectic music mix, with the last album played being “Joe Ely Live from the Cactus Cafe.” But get into ラーメンベット 競馬 car and it’s NPR all the way. ラーメンベット 競馬 go-to meal is some kind of vegetable — broccoli, broccolini or spinach — some sort of tofu, and rice or potatoes.
We spoke in her 10th floor office at the ラーメンベット 禁止ゲーム of ラーメンベット 競馬 on June 30, a moving box here and there in her waning days as dean.
