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Alicia Roberts

Associate Director, News and Public Relations

Alicia Roberts began her communications career as a newspaper journalist, and her media experience now spans content marketing and social media strategy, advertising and brand strategy, media relations, podcast planning and business-to-business publishing.

She worked as metro editor at The State newspaper in Columbia, S.C., where her enterprise reporting staff won multiple awards for special investigations, and as a news editor at The Charlotte Observer. While at the Observer, she served as director of partner relations for the Charlotte News Alliance, an innovative grant project connecting newspapers with emerging hyper-local news organizations. Since 2010, she has written about health and science research, among other topics, for Wake Forest University.

Alicia earned her B.S. in English and communications from the University of Dayton in Ohio.


Stories by Alicia


Marking 50 years of movement and motivation

For 50 years and counting, a program founded at Wake Forest University has helped thousands of people live longer, healthier lives.  Among them is Tom Mullen, the dean of the college from 1968 to 1995, who along with his wife, Ruth, works out three times a week with the Healthy Exercise & Lifestyle Programs (HELPS),…

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Wake Forest cancer research fundraiser draws record participants

Wake Forest University’s annual Hit the Bricks fundraiser inspired a record number of runners and walkers—more than 2,264—to circle Hearn Plaza on Oct. 1 in support of the Brian Piccolo Cancer Research Fund. In fact, no other student-led fundraiser at Wake Forest has attracted as many participants. This year's Hit the Bricks runners, representing a…


Running laps for cancer research

Faith Martin is hitting the bricks Oct. 1 for Izzy, her younger sister and best friend, who lost her life to osteosarcoma in 2022, just two years after her diagnosis. Because raising money to support cancer research could make all the difference in someone’s life, events like Wake Forest University’s Hit the Bricks are so…


Securing the future of AI

The emerging AI field of multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has infinite potential for use in health care, disaster response and power grid management, allowing multiple AI systems to work together to manage complex and sometimes life-threatening situations. But the risk of one AI system’s failure leading to the others has kept MARL in the realm…