Brent Wolfe
News DirectorBrent Wolfe grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and majored in American Studies at Tufts University outside Boston. In college, Brent was inspired by the narrative journalism style of J. Anthony Lukas' "Common Ground," the story of school desegregation and court ordered busing in Boston. After college, he donned a ranger hat with the National Park Service to tell visitors the story of Boston's African American community in the 19th century. Brent eventually made his way to public radio- learning the basics at WBUR in Boston and doing political reporting at KQED in San Francisco. He moved on to report for WILL in Champaign-Urbana and then Minnesota Public Radio in Rochester where he covered stories from medical research at the Mayo Clinic to a gopher catching festival. Brent joined 吉彩网网站's reporting staff in March 2000, became news editor in February 2003, and News Director in 2011. Brent served on the Board of Directors of the as Treasurer from 2019 to 2021.
Brent can be reached at bwolfe@wunc.org.
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Doctors at UNC Chapel Hill want to improve the physical health of patients with severe mental illness. U-N-C's Center for Excellence in Community Mental鈥�
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An experimental flood forecasting system will get a test with Hurricane Irene. Scientists have been experimenting with computer models since Hurricane鈥�
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The American Red Cross is moving equipment and personnel into place to help people who may be affected by Hurricane Irene. Timm Heisey with the Red Cross鈥�
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Former State Auditor Ralph Campbell has died. He was the first African-American elected to a statewide executive office in North Carolina.Campbell was鈥�
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A North Carolina woman is beginning her sixth year chronicling every U.S. military casualty in Iraq and Afghanistan. Caroline McKinley lives near Camp鈥�