Keri Brown

Associate Director, News and Communications

brownkl@wfu.edu

336.758.4442

Keri Brown joined the news team in 2022 after working as a host and reporter for NPR-affiliate 88.5 WFDD for 11 years. As a journalist, Keri has covered a wide variety of topics and has received multiple awards for her feature and enterprise reporting.  Before moving to North Carolina, she worked with West Virginia Public Broadcasting and produced stories for the state’s public television and public radio programs. In this role, she also taught journalism courses at Wheeling University and Bethany College and produced STEM stories as part of a partnership with NASA funded education centers. She is a graduate of Ohio University where she earned her B.S. in Communication from the Scripps College of Communication.

Keri enjoys telling the stories of Wake Forest University and working with students, faculty and staff.

Stories by Keri

Wake Forest senior helps create mental health screening tool to improve patient care at local health clinic

When Amelia Suhocki, a senior biochemistry and molecular biology major from Durham, North Carolina, first came to Wake Forest, she wanted to learn more about public health and find opportunities to get involved in the Winston-Salem community. That led her to the Community Care Center, one of the largest free health clinics in the Southeast, serving…

Categories: Experiential Learning, Mentorship, Pro Humanitate, Research & Discovery

Turning cardboard and 3D printed objects into foosball tables and kayaks

Inside a classroom at Wake Downtown, engineering students arrived early to put the finishing touches on their cardboard creations. They were preparing to demonstrate their projects during the Fall 2024 Cardboard Showcase. It’s part of the Engineering 111 class that provides students with an introduction to the field. “These students had half of a semester…

Categories: Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Mentorship, Personal & Career Development, Research & Discovery

Center for Functional Materials Research Day celebrates innovation and collaboration

On a Friday afternoon, more than 100 scientists, across several disciplines, gathered to share ideas and innovations around their common interest—materials research. About 30 Wake Forest students and faculty members presented posters on their diverse research successes in Benson University Center for the Center for Functional Materials Research Day. “One area of our research lab…

Categories: Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Experts, Mentorship, Personal & Career Development, Research & Discovery

When marine algae get sick: how viruses shape microbe interactions

By looking at the tiniest virus-infected microbes in the ocean, researchers are gaining new insights about the marine food web that may help improve future climate change predictions. The new study, co-authored by Wake Forest Assistant Professor of Biology Sheri Floge, brings together viral ecologists, chemists and physicists to find out more about marine microbes…

Categories: Environment & Sustainability, Experts, Research & Discovery