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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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Student in lab.
Intellect
BYU scientists discover way to make crops grow in salt-damaged soil
Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
November 14, 2019
A group of BYU researchers may have found a way to reverse falling crop yields caused by increasingly salty farmlands throughout the world.
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Riders standing on a trail next to their e-mountain bikes
E-bikes provide intense exercise, but it doesn’t feel like a workout
Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
November 11, 2019
Participants in a new study hit elevated heart rates riding the same test loop on both e-mountain bikes and regular mountain bikes, suggesting that e-bikes can in fact be a good source of high-intensity exercise.
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Riders standing on a trail next to their e-mountain bikes
Intellect
E-bikes provide intense exercise, but it doesn’t feel like a workout
Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
November 07, 2019
Participants in a new study hit elevated heart rates riding the same test loop on both e-mountain bikes and regular mountain bikes, suggesting that e-bikes can in fact be a good source of high-intensity exercise.
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Butterfly up close.
Analysis of butterfly genomes reveals answers to complex evolutionary history questions
Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
November 05, 2019
Researchers from BYU and Harvard published a pivotal study in Science magazine.
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Paul Frandsen and different butterfly species
Analysis of butterfly genomes reveals answers to complex evolutionary history questions
Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
October 31, 2019
Researchers from BYU and Harvard published a pivotal study in Science magazine.
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Butterfly up close.
Intellect
Analysis of butterfly genomes reveals answers to complex evolutionary history questions
Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
October 31, 2019
Researchers from BYU and Harvard published a pivotal study in Science magazine.
3 Min Read
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Melting ice is forcing polar bears to swim more; the cost is high
Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
October 29, 2019
New research by BYU biologist Blaine Griffen finds the increase in swimming could permanently affect polar bear populations, leading to smaller bears, reduced reproduction rates and even increased risk of death for the bears.

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Anne Thomas
Newly minted Gates Scholar is 5th BYU student to receive rare honor
Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
October 29, 2019
Anne Thomas is only the fifth BYU student to earn the all-expenses-paid fellowship since Bill and Melinda Gates started the Gates Cambridge Scholarship program in 2000.

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Study: Patients maintain muscle mass five years after surgically-induced weight loss
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By Todd Hollingshead
October 29, 2019
Newly-published research from BYU provides important evidence supporting the long-term safety and viability of bariatric surgery.

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