Alicia Roberts

Wake Forest University students will welcome hundreds of local schoolchildren to campus from 3-6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27, for the annual Project Pumpkin fall festival on Hearn Plaza. The University’s largest student-led community-building event, launched more than 35 years ago, Project Pumpkin invites children to the Reynolda campus for trick-or-treating, entertainment and activities. Leading up…

When systems shift in times of crisis, leadership needs change, too. For its annual fall conference, Wake Forest University’s Sabin Center for Environment and Sustainability highlights resilient leadership approaches to navigate these challenges, from research and innovation to storytelling and brand-building. “Sustainable, Just and Abundantly Wild: Resilient Leadership for Our Era” features expert scientists, business…

Even before the era of GLP-1 weight loss drugs, Wake Forest University neuroscientist Wayne Pratt dedicated his research lab to better understanding how the brain regulates food motivation. Now, with GLP-1s a household name, his research has even greater and more immediate implications: We know that drugs like Ozempic, developed to treat diabetes because they…

With the help of 2,407 runners and walkers, Hit the Bricks raised over $415,750 for the Brian Piccolo Cancer Research Fund during this year’s Oct. 1 event. That beats last year’s record of 2,264 runners and walkers raising $360,000 for cancer research and patient services that the Piccolo Fund supports at Atrium Wake Forest Baptist’s…

Scientists from across the Amazon have delivered to Pope Leo XIV a briefing on mercury pollution in the region—documents that include the findings from decades of research at the Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation (CINCIA), established in partnership with Wake Forest University’s Sabin Center for Environment and Sustainability. “Today we were able to put more…