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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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Intellect

High levels of exercise linked to nine years of less aging (at the cellular level)

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
May 10, 2017
But new research from Brigham Young University reveals you may be able to slow one type of aging — the kind that happens inside your cells. As long as you’re willing to sweat.

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Intellect

BYU students make winter hammocking a warmer reality

By Alec Sears
April 23, 2017
BYU's 2017 Student Innovator of the Year created a lightweight insulator that covers hammocks for cold-evening camping.

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BYU No. 4 in the country for taking research inventions to market

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
April 21, 2017
BYU is one of the top five universities in the country for turning research discoveries into new technology, products and companies, according to a report released today.

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Character

Students creating prosthetic sockets for thousands of amputees in Africa

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
April 19, 2017
BYU engineering students have teamed with non-profit Engage Now Africa to create a socket for above-knee amputees that fits neatly into prosthetics made available by the international Red Cross.

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Intellect

Engineering students make biking possible for kids with leg-length discrepancies

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
April 10, 2017
Mechanical engineering students at BYU have created a special adapter to a bike pedal that allows people with leg-length discrepancies and knee flexibility issues ride smoothly and painlessly.

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Intellect

Student-created budgeting app will finally save your budget

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
March 27, 2017
You’ve tried it all: spreadsheets, software, the envelope system. And despite your best efforts, it seems like every month you blow your budget. One BYU student wants you to give it one more shot, using his budgeting app.

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Intellect

Build an underwater robot, learn STEM subjects

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
March 23, 2017
More than 800 elementary and middle school students descended on the Lehi Legacy Center pool last week, but none of them got in the water.
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Intellect

BYU researchers make flexible glass for tiny medical devices

March 23, 2017
Brigham Young University researchers have developed new glass technology that could add a new level of flexibility to the microscopic world of medical devices.

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Salad bars in public schools: How to get kids to use them

March 06, 2017
Thanks to a national initiative, salad bars are showing up in public schools across the country. Now a BYU researchers is trying to figure out how to get kids to eat from them.

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