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Todd Hollingshead

Media Relations Manager/Information Manager
Email: toddh@byu.edu
801-422-8373

Todd's primary roles for BYU include writing feature stories and pitching them to national and local media, serving as a spokesperson and managing one of BYU’s social media accounts. He's also the point of contact for journalists looking for data & information requests or expert sources from our faculty.   

Todd graduated from BYU with a bachelor's degree in communications in 2004 and added a master's degree in communications in 2012. Before coming to BYU, he worked as a news reporter for The Daily Herald and The Salt Lake Tribune. Todd has worked in University Communications since 2007. He teaches an undergraduate public relations class in the Communications Department and loves the chance to be part of the students' lives.   

He loves working with the people in his department and across BYU and counts himself lucky to have witnessed the Jimmer years in person. 

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Polar bear with cubs
Intellect
Polar bear den detection methods work less than half the time, finds BYU bear expert
Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
March 12, 2020
On the ground observation finds 55% of dens are missed
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Kids playing soccer
Intellect
Study: Kids eat more calories in post-game snacks than they burn during the game
Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
February 25, 2020
Almost every parent knows the drill: When it’s your turn, you bring Capri Suns and Rice Krispies Treats to your child’s soccer game as a post-game snack. Whether you’re a parent that loves the tradition or despises it, new research shows how detrimental post-game treats are to a child’s health.
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New BYU Music Building
Announcements
BYU announces approval to construct new Music Building
Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
February 20, 2020
The Brigham Young University Board of Trustees has approved plans to construct a new Music Building for the College of Fine Arts and Communications. The building, which will be located at the south end of the parking lot east of the BYU Law School, will house the BYU School of Music’s performance and academic space.
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Up-close image of a step-counting watch
Intellect
10,000 steps: Not quite magical when it comes to weight
Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
February 10, 2020
For years now, 10,000 steps a day has become the gold standard for people trying to improve their health — and recent research shows some benefits can come from even just 7,500 steps. But if you’re trying to prevent weight gain, a new Brigham Young University study suggests no number of steps alone will do the trick.
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Sam St. Clair and student Jordan Maxwell; Measuring snowpack after wildfires
Intellect
BYU study: Wildfires increase winter snowpack — but that isn’t necessarily a good thing
Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
February 04, 2020
Deep in the Tushar mountains, some three hours south of BYU’s campus, Ph.D. student Jordan Maxwell and two other students found themselves in deep snow, both literally and figuratively.
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Paul Godfrey (center) with Gove Allen (L) and David Benson (R)
Intellect
Nature Study: Increasing number of university-licensed startups in the U.S. are not actually operating
Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
January 23, 2020
An analysis of the Top 50 patent-producing universities in the United States finds a staggering increase in the amount of university-licensed startups that exist on paper, but are not really doing anything — no employees, often no physical location, no economic impact, finds the Nature Biotechnology study.
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Exercise science professor Larry Tucker poses with different milk cartons
Intellect
Drinking 1% milk instead of 2% milk is associated with 4.5 years of less aging in adults
Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
January 15, 2020
Drinking low-fat milk is associated with longer telomeres in adults. Adults who drink whole and 2% milk experience significant additional aging on the cellular level.
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Hand holding a large trophy
Intellect
Accounting students land BYU another No. 1 ranking
Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
December 23, 2019
School of Accountancy students are the top large program in the country for first-time pass rates of the Certified Public Accountant Exam.
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Aerial view of a miniature city with self-driving cars.
Intellect
BYU offers 'crash course' in self-driving car technology
Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
December 19, 2019
A BYU electrical engineering professor has found an innovative and inexpensive way to teach students how to program self-driving cars. Instead of building a full-scale autonomous vehicle, DJ Lee used RC cars and an indoor mini course to give students a crash course in the vocabulary and tech behind autonomous vehicles.
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