Keri Brown

Reporter

Keri Brown is a reporter and host at WFDD.  She comes to the Triad from West Virginia Public Broadcasting, where she served as the Chief Bureau Reporter for the Northern Panhandle. Prior to her time at West Virginia Public Broadcasting, Keri was the head assignment editor at WTRF-TV in Wheeling and a field producer and assignment manager at WPGH Fox 53 in Pittsburgh. She is a graduate of Ohio University.

Keri has also served as an adjunct professor at Wheeling Jesuit University and Bethany College in West Virginia. She enjoys covering business and education stories. Keri has worked with the Center for Educational Technologies in Wheeling, W. Va. and other NASA centers across the country to develop several stories about the use of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) concepts in the classroom. 

Keri won a 2011 PRNDI award for her spot news coverage during the funeral for five Guilford County children who died in a murder-suicide shooting rampage.

The West Virginia Associated Press Broadcasters Association awarded first place in the Feature category for her 2010 story about steel communities suffering from layoffs. Keri also received an Associated Press Award for Best Enterprise Reporting in 2005 for her story about drug trafficking in Wheeling.

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Education
3:44 pm
Sun April 28, 2013

Triad College Becomes Second School in U.S. to Offer Aquarium Science Degree

Credit by lajz via flickr
Davidson County Community College will convert an old facility on campus into an aquarium for student research and community learning opportunities.

Davidson County Community College in Thomasville is one of only a handful of community colleges in the U.S. that offers a degree in zoo sciences. Now the school will be one of only two in the nation that offers an associate’s degree in aquarium science.

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News
2:54 pm
Thu April 25, 2013

Zombies Will Converge on Winston-Salem

Credit by mebrett via flickr
Citizens are encouraged to dress like Zombies at the Forsyth County Public Safety & Community Preparedness Day. UNCSA students and staff will also be on hand to transform people into Zombies.

Emergency officials in Forsyth County want to make sure that residents are ready when disaster strikes.

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Child Abuse
3:13 pm
Wed April 24, 2013

Child Abuse & Neglect Cases on the Rise

Credit The National Exchange Club
"Time Out Teddy" is raising awareness about child abuse and prevention. He will be at the Celebration for Children Event Thursday at Bolton Park in Winston-Salem.

April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. Colorful pinwheel gardens can be seen throughout North Carolina to draw attention to the issue.

“Every year, there are well over 100,000 reports of children who are abused or neglected in North Carolina. Last year the number was 131,000 children. Over 2,000 children in Forsyth County were the subject of a child abuse or neglect investigation,” says Amanda Carrick, deputy director with Exchange/SCAN, a non-profit child abuse prevention and neglect agency in Winston-Salem.

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Education
3:00 pm
Tue April 23, 2013

Guilford County Students Will Use Their Imagination to Travel Across the Country

Credit Guilford County Schools
Guilford County Schools Superintendent Maurice Mo Green will announce the results of the Roadmap 2 Reading program in January 2014.
News
2:06 pm
Mon April 22, 2013

Pops of Color & Neutrals Popular at High Point Furniture Market

Credit http://www.highpointmarket.org/
Blues and Jewel tones are popular colors this season at the High Furniture Point Market.

This is fashion week in High Point. The Spring Furniture Market kicked off Saturday.

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