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Andrea Christensen

Media Relations Manager
Email: andrea_christensen@byu.edu

Andrea worked at University Communications from 2016 to January 2019.

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Intellect

Animation nabs top ranking

By Whitney Steele
October 03, 2018
It’s a good year for BYU’s Center for Animation: in May BYU animation students won E3’s College Game Competition, and now BYU tops the Animation Career Review’s ranking of animation schools with Bachelor of Science programs.
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Checked off "the talk" with your teen? Not so fast: one isn't enough

By Jayne Edwards
September 30, 2018
Patting yourself on the back for gritting through “the talk” with your kid? Not so fast: new research from BYU family life professor Laura Padilla-Walker suggests that when it comes to your teens, one vague and generic conversation about sex is not enough.
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Fighting bad air quality with ... dance?

Andrea Christensen
By Andrea Christensen
September 11, 2018
When Keely Song moved to Utah in 2016, she was jarred by what she called the “apocalyptic” talk about air quality during the state’s notorious inversions. So when BYU announced in November it would be providing free UTA passes to students, employees and their families, the dance professor had an idea.
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'Wherever we are, that's who we are': 50-states docuseries explores place and identity

Andrea Christensen
By Andrea Christensen
September 09, 2018
Update (July 1, 2020)
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BYU prof takes a dive into ‘The Far Side’

By Alexa Reimschussel
August 21, 2018
In Kerry Soper’s new book, “Gary Larson and The Far Side,” the BYU comparative arts and letters professor discusses the comic’s complex and strange humor, artistic variance from the norms of its day and impact on modern alternative comedy.
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BYU internet security research garners Facebook praise

By Whitney Steele
August 19, 2018
You know the green lock in the corner of your browser? That symbol represents thousands of lines of code program developers went through to encrypt your data so an attacker cannot read or modify it. The software used to make your Web communication secure is notoriously hard for developers to use, but a BYU team developed a new system that cuts the thousands of lines of code down to just a few.
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Rare Triassic pterosaur discovered by BYU paleontologists

By Whitney Steele
August 12, 2018
When Brooks Britt, a geological sciences professor at BYU, searched through the latest Triassic sandstone samples in his lab, he expected to find bones of early crocodiles and dinosaurs. Instead, he discovered the bones of a new pterosaur specimen, now named Caelestiventus (heavenly wind) hanseni. Dating back more than 200 million years, it’s one of the earliest ever found.
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Want to stop corruption? Text voters

By Jayne Edwards
July 24, 2018
A new study from a BYU political science professor shows texting information about politicians' corruption can improve democratic election outcomes.

 

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Daily Universe takes top national award

By Alexa Reimschussel
July 12, 2018
BYU's newspaper took the first-place general excellence award in the National Newspaper Association’s 2018 Better Newspaper Contest. The Universe received nine other national awards and 17 state awards in journalism.

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