Couric, now with ABC News and developing a daytime talk show "Katie" that debuts Sept. 10, also joked about criticism she faced as the first female solo anchor of a network's nightly news program.
She quipped, "Some said I lacked 'gravitas,' which I've since
decided is Latin for 'testicles.'"
Couric is a 1979 UVa graduate. The university's new cancer center is named for her sister Emily Couric, a Virginia state senator who died in 2001.
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