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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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U mad bro? Researchers measure emotion with your mouse clicks

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
December 11, 2015
Most people can tell if you’re angry based on the way you’re acting. Professor Jeffrey Jenkins can tell if you’re angry by the way you move a computer mouse.

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Students creating tiny Bluetooth two-way radio for extreme athletes

By Ashley Lindenau
December 06, 2015
A group of BYU students has devised an innovative technological device to keep you and your fellow outdoor enthusiasts in touch while in nature: A tiny two-way radio that connects to your phone or headphones via Bluetooth.

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Study: Exposure to violence leads to unethical behavior

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By Todd Hollingshead
December 01, 2015
A new BYU study, published in the Journal of Business Ethics, finds that exposure to human violence is strongly linked to an increase in cheating for monetary gain. In other words, violence may be making us less ethical.

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BYU researchers speeding up process of making vaccines

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
November 17, 2015
Researchers at BYU have devised a system to speed up the process of making life-saving vaccines for new viruses.

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Study: Count your bites; count down the pounds

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By Todd Hollingshead
November 04, 2015
A new study from BYU health science researchers found people who counted bites over a month's time lost roughly four pounds---just about what the CDC recommends for "healthy" weight loss.

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Polynesian Pipeline: Funding flows to Hawaiian students with prof's help

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By Todd Hollingshead
October 28, 2015
The trajectory of Brooke Laoliokalani Spencer and Alan Loki Alohikea's college experience changed in one day this fall when their mentor, biology professor John Kauwe, summoned them to his office for some big news.

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BYU's mentoring factory: Getting undergraduates into research

By Ashley Lindenau
October 14, 2015
Giving undergraduate students research opportunities is a priority at BYU. Alonzo Cook takes that charge very seriously. Cook, a chemical engineering professor, has 86 undergraduate students working in his lab.

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BYU engineers and scientists take on global health threat

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
October 05, 2015
Four BYU professors from three colleges have joined forces on a multi-year, National Institutes of Health-sponsored effort to create a faster diagnostic test for drug-resistant blood infections.

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BYU technology tackles climate change by freezing carbon

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By Todd Hollingshead
September 27, 2015
This August, President Obama announced an ambitious plan to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 32 percent by 2030. BYU professor Larry Baxter is developing a technology that can actually do it.

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