University Times

Alberta Sbragia, vice provost for graduate studies, has been named chair of the committee searching for a new director of the University Center for International Studies (UCIS).

UCIS director Lawrence Feick, a faculty member in business administration, will step down from the UCIS post as well as from his role as senior director of international programs and member of the Council of Deans, effective Aug. 1, 2014.

Feick will continue as a Katz school faculty member.

Rounding out the 12-member search committee for Feick’s successor are: Nancy Condee, professor of Slavic languages and literatures and director of the Global Studies Center; Yolanda Covington-Ward, assistant professor in the School of Law; Randall Halle, Klaus W. Jonas Professor in the Department of German; John Keeler, dean of the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs; Denise McCloskey, UCIS director of administration; Scott Morgenstern, associate professor in the Department of Political Science and director of the Center for Latin American Studies; Josephine Olson, professor in the Katz Graduate School of Business and director of the International Business Center; Joanne Russell, the Graduate School of Public Health’s assistant dean for global health programs and director of the Center for Global Health; Steven Sokol, president and CEO of the World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh and a member of the UCIS Board of Visitors, and Andrew Strathern, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Department of Anthropology.

—Kimberly K. Barlow