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Christie Allen

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10-year BYU study shows elevated suicide risk from excess social media time for young teen girls
By Christie Allen
February 03, 2021
In the longest study to date on the effects of social media on teens, BYU research found a correlation between time spent on social media and suicidality risk among teenage girls.
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BYU students sweep writing contest, win new short story dispenser for campus
By Christie Allen
January 21, 2021
Among competition from Harvard, Carnegie Mellon and other top schools, BYU students swept the contest, winning all of the first-place juried prizes.
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BYU Italian professor combats student “Zoom fatigue” with online cooking sessions
By Christie Allen
January 20, 2021
The cooking sessions in professor Marie Orton’s Italian 361 class represent her passion for helping students to connect—with each other, with her, with the subject matter. Orton said her teaching methods are inspired partly by the examples of many colleagues in the unique language programs at BYU.
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Award-winning BYU research makes strides in improving autism diagnoses
By Christie Allen
January 13, 2021
In studies published over the last year, BYU’s interdisciplinary research group Autism Connect has outlined ways to change these norms by improving the accuracy, timeliness and helpfulness of autism diagnoses.
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BYU Security Operations Center wins prestigious industry award
By Christie Allen
January 07, 2021
Industry organization CSO recognized the BYU security team for their innovative framework that allows BYU to manage security on multiple campuses, all while saving costs.
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Love thy neighbor, improve your mental health, says BYU study
By Christie Allen
December 23, 2020
Dropping off a plate of cookies, leaving a kind note, wishing a neighbor a Merry Christmas. These simple holiday traditions lift the spirits of the recipients, but new BYU research shows that such small acts of kindness can also improve the mental health of the giver.
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BYU students, creator of Alexa develop software to preserve Cambodian stories
By Christie Allen
December 09, 2020
By recording nearly 5,000 life stories during the past few years, BYU’s Cambodian Oral History Project has brought to light many narratives long suppressed by the trauma of the late 1970s Khmer Rouge regime, during which nearly two million Cambodians were killed or died.
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BYU study: Alcohol-free hand sanitizer just as effective against COVID-19 virus as alcohol-based versions
By Christie Allen
December 03, 2020
A new BYU study, recently published in The Journal of Hospital Infection, finds that alcohol-free hand sanitizer is just as effective at disinfecting surfaces from the COVID-19 virus as alcohol-based products.


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BYU study: Alcohol-free hand sanitizer just as effective against COVID-19 virus as alcohol-based versions
By Christie Allen
December 03, 2020
A new BYU study, recently published in The Journal of Hospital Infection, finds that alcohol-free hand sanitizer is just as effective at disinfecting surfaces from the COVID-19 virus as alcohol-based products.


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