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Joe Hadfield

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Joe worked at University Communications from 2007 to June 2020.

 

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Studies: Addiction starts with an overcorrection in the brain

June 30, 2014
The National Institutes of Health has turned to neuroscientists at the nation’s most “Stone Cold Sober” university for help finding ways to treat drug and alcohol addiction.

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Red card! Even the best refs play favorites

Joe Hadfield
By Joe Hadfield
June 10, 2014
Along with Neymar, Ronaldo and Messi, the world’s best soccer referees are heading to Brazil for the World Cup. But according to an analysis of 2,500 soccer matches, it appears the whistles of even the best officials are biased.

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"Major" gender minorities

June 01, 2014
Flexing his big biceps puts an end to any teasing Ryan Strobehn gets for being on the cheerleading squad. According to a new student research project, most men in predominantly female majors feel compelled to amplify their ambitions. With mentoring from Professor Ben Gibbs, sociology major Martha Shepard and three classmates studied "major minorities" – students who are a gender minority in their major. The College of Family, Home and Social Sciences named their work the top student research project in sociology this year.

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Google Glass adaptation opens the universe to deaf students

May 26, 2014
Ordinarily, deaf students are left in the dark when they visit a planetarium.

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Tree rings reveal nightmare droughts in the West

April 30, 2014
If you think the 1930s drought that caused The Dust Bowl was rough, new research looking at tree rings in the Rocky Mountains has news for you: Things can get much worse in the West. 

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The other "Glory Road": Latino basketball's forgotten story

April 28, 2014
Long before Texas Western defeated Kentucky for the 1966 national championship – depicted in the film “Glory Road” – there were the Sidney Lanier High School Voks, a team that found little glory as they made history.

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Head injuries can make children loners

April 08, 2014
New research has found that a child’s relationships may be a hidden casualty long after a head injury.

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Mathletes repeat history

April 06, 2014
As a national math champion in high school with offers from Stanford and MIT, Sam Dittmer came to BYU with lofty expectations.

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The teams that would bring the biggest Final Four ratings

March 23, 2014
Cinderella teams bust a lot of brackets, but they are a boon to Madison Avenue.

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