Bob Woodruff Poised to Fill In for Couric at UTT

TYLER � Journalist Bob Woodruff is set to fill in for Katie Couric in Tuesday’s lecture at The University of Texas at Tyler R. Don Cowan Fine and Performing Arts Center. Susan Thomae-Morphew, UT Tyler Cowan Center executive director, made the announcement over the weekend. According to a news release, a family emergency caused Couric to cancel her scheduled lecture, which is co-sponsored by Samaritan Counseling Center, CBS 19/London Broadcasting and UT Tyler. Tickets are still available and can be purchased at the UT Tyler Cowan Center box office by going to http://www.cowancenter.org or calling 903.566.7424. Box office hours are 9:00am to 4:00pm Monday through Friday.

Woodruff joined ABC News in 1996 and has covered major stories throughout the country and around the world for the network. He was named co-anchor of �ABC World News Tonight� in December 2005. On January 29, 2006, while reporting on U.S. and Iraqi security forces, Woodruff was seriously injured by a roadside bomb that struck his vehicle near Taji, Iraq.

In February 2007, just 13 months after being wounded in Iraq, Woodruff returned to ABC News with his first on-air report, �To Iraq and Back: Bob Woodruff Reports.� The hour-long, primetime documentary chronicled his traumatic brain injury (TBI), his painstaking recovery and the plight of thousands of service members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with similar injuries, according to the news release. Woodruff continues to cover traumatic brain injuries for all ABC News broadcasts and platforms and was honored with a Peabody Award in 2008 for his reporting on the subject.