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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


Can Amazon and Andean trees move to survive climate change?

A new study published today by Wake Forest University and an international team of scientists reveals that tree communities across the Amazon and Andes are not adapting quickly enough to climate change, with major implications for the future of tropical biodiversity and ecosystem services like climate regulation and pollination. The research, spanning more than 40…

Categories: Research & Discovery


WFU to welcome Class of 2029 this week

Wake Forest University will welcome more than 1,500 first-year students on Wednesday, Aug. 20. The Class of 2029–most of whom were born the same year the iPhone debuted and the Harry Potter book series concluded–includes students from 45 states and the District of Columbia. Twenty-two countries are represented. Classes for the fall semester begin Monday,…


Weighted vests might help older adults meet weight loss goals, but solution for corresponding bone loss still elusive

A new randomized clinical trial, led by a team of researchers from Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Wake Forest University, did not find evidence that wearing a weighted vest or engaging in resistance training prevented bone loss in older adults undergoing intentional weight loss. The study, published today in JAMA Network Open, underscores the persistent need for alternative strategies to protect skeletal health in aging populations with obesity.

Categories: Research & Discovery