BU ALUM WORNIE REED BEGINS NEW POSITION AT VIRGINIA TECH
Wornie Reed (PhD, 1976) has just completed his first year as Director of the Center for Race and Social Policy at Virginia Tech University, where he is also a full professor in the Department of Sociology. Earlier in his career he chaired the Department of Black Studies and developed and directed the William Monroe Trotter Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. Trained as a medical sociologist, Reed has taught courses, conducted research, and published numerous articles on medical care, health and illness, urban communities, and criminal justice.