Name: Kevin John
I’ve been a BYU employee since... 2011, if you count my time as an adjunct instructor and don’t count my time as a student research assistant, haha!
My job at BYU is... being a professor and working as the director of the BioComms Lab in the School of Communications.
Photo by
Alyssa Dahneke
Photo by
Alyssa Dahneke
I’m currently working on... lots of research on skin cancer, body image issues and substance use. It’s actually kind of funny because, since I work in each of these areas, my computer is full of images of alcohol advertisements, moles and people in swimsuits and such—probably the last thing you’d think of with BYU research! But the goal of all of these studies is to help people make informed decisions about their health and physical and mental well-being. With many of these studies I like to use advanced technologies like eye-tracking, facial recognition, virtual reality and other means to see what people see and how they feel about it.