UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA NAMES NEWS DIRECTOR

	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., June 27 -- Carol S. Wood, a former
vice president at the Norfolk-based Virginian-Pilot, will become
director of news services at the University of Virginia effective
July 1.
	As head of a staff of writers and public information
officers within University Relations, she will be responsible for a
communication program to inform the public, through the media, about
University issues, events and the results of faculty research in all
schools and departments, including the Health Sciences Center.  News
services staff members also publish Inside UVA, the University's
weekly faculty-staff newspaper.
	A journalist since 1969, Wood spent 18 years in the newsroom
of the Virginian-Pilot as a writer, features editor and, from 1982
to 1987, assistant managing editor of the Pilot and its sister
paper, the Ledger-Star.
	In 1987 she became director of corporate communications for
Landmark Communications, the papers' parent company perhaps best
known for its creation of the Weather Channel.  Among the other
daily papers published by Landmark is the Roanoke Times and
World-News.  Four years later Wood was named a vice president with
responsibilities for special publications and the Norfolk
newspapers' public relations and marketing departments.
	Wood moved to Charlottesville in 1993 when her husband,
William H. Wood, was named the first executive director of the
University's Institute of  Political Leadership.
	In her new post she replaces Michael J. Marshall, who
resigned as news director in March to become associate director for
research and communications at the Core Knowledge Foundation.
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June 26, 1995