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Wake Forest University
The emerging AI field of multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has infinite potential for use in health care, disaster response and power grid management. MARL allows multiple AI systems to work together to manage complex and sometimes life-threatening situations. However, the risk of one AI system’s failure leading to the others has kept MARL in the realm of gaming. With a $598,609 National Science Foundation CAREER award, Associate Professor of Computer Science Sarra Alqahtani plans to change that.
September 4, 2025
TIME
Weighted vests are the latest fitness trend. Do they work?
As more people strap in for the first time, research into the potential effectiveness of weighted vests continues to come down the pike. Kristen Beavers, an associate professor in the department of health and exercise science at Wake Forest and one of the researchers in the INVEST trial, said the team is currently working on other studies related to weighted vests, including the impact on muscle and the difference in outcomes between men and women. In March, they published a small pilot study suggesting that wearing a weighted vest during active weight loss may help people maintain that loss over the long term. “I don’t think the story is done,” Beavers said.
September 4, 2025
The American Conservative
The nearly two-year conflict is not only one of the worst humanitarian abominations in the 21st century but has long since become a perfect case study of what politics professor Will Walldorf describes as “moral hazard”—an international relations term of art that occurs when a junior partner, assured of external backing from a great power (in this instance the United States), begins acting in ways that undermine the interests of the benefactor.
September 4, 2025
Triad Business Journal
Wake Forest hires NBA exec to lead new sports analytics program across athletics department
Although less than a week into his new role, seasoned NBA front office executive Steve Weinman is making strides at Wake Forest University, leading strategic analytics efforts across Demon Deacon athletics and helping to launch a new sports analytics concentration. Weinman will help pioneer a new collaboration with the business school. WFU anticipates launching the concentration for the 2026-2027 academic year.
September 2, 2025
Wake Forest University
‘Climb to Remember’ at Wake Forest honors lives lost in 9/11 attacks
Join the No Fear Army ROTC Battalion, based at Wake Forest University, for the annual Climb to Remember, which honors the 2,977 victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Participants aim to climb one stair at Allegacy Stadium for each of the victims of Sept. 11. Students from Wake Forest, Winston-Salem State University and Salem College will climb those stairs, as will first responders and other members of the Winston-Salem community.
September 2, 2025
ChurchLeaders Podcast
How to choose leaders with Nathan Hatch
President Emeritus of Wake Forest University Nathan Hatch discusses how to choose leaders on "The Stone Chapel Podcast." Hatch is the author of "The Gift of Transformative Leaders," which was published in the Cambridge Elements Series on leadership.
August 31, 2025
Yahoo Finance
5 things every investor can learn from Warren Buffett
“A great example is Nebraska Furniture Mart, which he discussed in his 1983 shareholder letter,” said Dr. Stephan Shipe, an economist and finance professor at Wake Forest University, and the founder of the investment advisory firm Scholar Advising. “He told the story of Rose Blumkin, who built the business from a pawn shop into a retail giant through relentless work and an eye for value.”
August 29, 2025
6AM City, Winston-Salem Today
5 world-renowned performers headline Secrest Artists Series
The Secrest Artists Series returns this September with a dynamic 2025-26 lineup, bringing internationally acclaimed artists to the halls of Wake Forest University. Free for students, faculty, and staff, and available to the public at modest prices, these powerful performances are part cultural education, part awe-inspiring entertainment.
August 29, 2025
Your Wyoming Link
Studies show seniors should build muscle to help reduce dementia risk
You probably already know that it’s important to build and maintain muscle, but how much is needed? “About 150 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity a week,” said Kristen Beavers, research professor at Wake Forest University. And at least two days of weightlifting activities that strengthen muscles. “Thinking about exercise as a countermeasure to muscle and bone loss as an older adult loses weight is very important,” Beavers added.
August 29, 2025
CNN
Do weighted vests work? We talked to the experts
CNN Medical Correspondent Meg Tirrell meets up with Peloton instructor Rebecca Kennedy and Wake Forest University health and exercise scientist Kristen Beavers to talk about the proper ways to use a weighted vest. "For your bones, a weighted vest takes advantage of gravity. Research suggests that weighted vests can maintain, and even improve, several parameters of musculoskeletal health," said Beavers.
August 27, 2025
All Sides with Amy Juravich , WOSU Public Media
The current trends in end-of-life planning
A final farewell to a loved one looks much different today that it used to. More people are planning ahead and opting for cremation over burial, choosing green or eco-friendly funerals and finding novel ways to remember those who are gone. What are your plans for final arrangements at the end of your life? Tanya Marsh, senior associate dean and law professor at Wake Forest University, shares her expertise on this topic.
August 27, 2025
Columbia University
2025 Horwitz Prize Awarded for Muscular Dystrophy Research
Wake Forest University's 2022 Distinguished Alumni Award Winner Eric Olson was recently honored with a 2025 Horwitz Prize Awarded for Muscular Dystrophy Research, “for discoveries that revealed the causes of muscular dystrophies.” Olson, who is with the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, identified key molecules that control muscle cell development, growth, and function. Of the 118 Horwitz Prize winners to date, 55 have gone on to win Nobel Prizes.
August 27, 2025