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Alicia Roberts

Associate Director, News and Public Relations

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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


Depression and stress feed long-term fatigue in breast cancer patients

For breast cancer survivors, new research shows that feelings of depression and perceptions of psychological stress make the biggest difference in whether they experience fatigue up to two years after chemotherapy started. Researchers had thought that damage to the heart caused by chemotherapy would be the main contributor to survivor fatigue. But that turned out…

Categories: Research & Discovery


AI agents are all the rage—but research shows they leak private data

Before you prompt AI to answer another question or perform another task, a Wake Forest computer scientist wants you to know it could expose your sensitive data. Ying Zhang, an assistant professor in Wake Forest University’s Department of Computer Science, studies security in software engineering. Her latest research, “How Your Credentials Are Leaked by LLM…

Categories: Research & Discovery


Developers beware: When apps add AI, it risks hacking

In the race to add AI capabilities to their mobile apps, developers have opened up a new security weakness that puts their own wallets at risk. A new study led by Wake Forest undergraduate student Eric Gao analyzed 444 iOS applications. It found that 282 exposed credentials needed to access the developers’ large language model…


Class of 2030 arrives on the Wake Forest campus

Wake Forest University will welcome more than 1,590 first-year students this year. Many will arrive on Tuesday, Aug. 18. What to know about the Class of 2030: Media are invited to campus from 8 to 11 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 18, to cover first-year students and their families as they move into residence halls, greeted by…