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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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BYU animator adapts big-screen talent to small screen with new app

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By Todd Hollingshead
July 01, 2012
BYU animation professor Ryan Woodward has just launched the first animated comic book of its kind – a graphic novel built as an iPad App that comes to life with animation playback right inside the digital pages.

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NSA names BYU a cybersecurity National Center of Excellence

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By Todd Hollingshead
June 26, 2012
The National Security Agency and Department of Homeland Security has designated BYU as a National Center for Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education (CAE/IAE), a designation that honors schools excelling in the development of professionals who help protect national security information systems.

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For teens, fun at home with dad more important than pricey vacations

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By Todd Hollingshead
June 12, 2012
Fathers looking to bolster their relationships with teenage children don’t need to break the bank this summer for a major family trip. A new study by BYU researchers says youth feel a higher level of family cohesion and functionality when dad simply spends more time playing catch, watching a movie or eating with them.

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Studying soil to predict the future of earth's atmosphere

June 11, 2012
A new study published in Nature Climate Change by researchers at BYU, Duke and the USDA, finds that the interaction between plants and soils controls how ecosystems respond to rising levels of CO2 in the atmosphere.

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BYU film students take on the 'Hungry Games'

June 10, 2012
This clever Hunger Games parody was created as a promotion for the first season of a web series produced by BYU film students.

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BYU engineers conceive disc replacement to treat chronic low back pain

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By Todd Hollingshead
June 10, 2012
BYU researchers have conceived an artificial spinal disc replacement that mimics the natural motion of a healthy human spine. The technology has been licensed to Utah-based Crocker Spinal Technologies.

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NASA wants BYU grad student's ideas in outer space

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By Todd Hollingshead
May 21, 2012
BYU engineering PhD Shannon Zirbel has earned a NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship, an academic award worth up to $198,000 that is propelling her research straight to the cosmos.

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BYU formula hybrid racecar speeds to first at international competition

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By Todd Hollingshead
May 13, 2012
After 21 years of leading BYU’s Mechanical Engineering Capstone program, Dr. Robert Todd is retiring – but not before he does one final victory lap.

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Cattle in the Cloud: BYU students making a digital dairy

April 30, 2012
IT students from BYU have created a program to better track livestock. The software earned them a spot in the top 10 of the Microsoft Imagine Cup competition, where they are now competing for the People's Choice Award.

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