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Alicia Roberts

Associate Director, News and Public Relations

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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…


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,…