The University of Utah (U of U, UofU, or simply The U) is a
public
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research university
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in
Salt Lake City
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,
Utah
Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to it ...
. It is the
flagship institution
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of the
Utah System of Higher Education
The Utah System of Higher Education (USHE) is the public university system of the state of Utah. It includes each of the state's sixteen public institutions of higher education, including its eight technical colleges.
History
On March 21, 1969, ...
. The university was established in 1850 as the University of Deseret () by the General Assembly of the provisional
State of Deseret
The State of Deseret (modern pronunciation , contemporaneously ) was a proposed state of the United States, proposed in 1849 by settlers from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in Salt Lake City. The provisional state ...
,
making it Utah's oldest institution of higher education.
It received its current name in 1892, four years before Utah attained statehood, and moved to its current location in 1900.
As of Fall 2019, there were 24,485
undergraduate
Undergraduate education is education conducted after secondary education and before postgraduate education. It typically includes all postsecondary programs up to the level of a bachelor's degree. For example, in the United States, an entry-lev ...
students and 8,333
graduate students, for an enrollment total of 32,818, making it the second largest public university in the state after
Utah Valley University
Utah Valley University (UVU) is a public university in Orem, Utah. UVU offers master's, bachelor's, associate degrees, and certificates. Previously called Utah Valley State College, the school attained university status in July 2008.
History ...
. Graduate studies include the
S.J. Quinney College of Law and the
School of Medicine
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, Utah's first
medical school
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.
It is a member of the
Association of American Universities
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(AAU) and is
classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity".
According to the
National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National I ...
, the university received $552 million in research and development funding in 2018, ranking it 45th in the nation. In addition, the university's Honors College has been reviewed among 100 leading national Honors Colleges in the U.S. The university's health care system includes four hospitals, including the
University of Utah Hospital
The University of Utah Hospital is a research and teaching hospital on the campus of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah. It serves as a major regional referral center for Utah and the surrounding states of Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming, Monta ...
and
Huntsman Cancer Institute
Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) is an NCI-designated cancer research facility and hospital located on the campus of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is the only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center i ...
, along with twelve community clinics and specialty centers such as the
Moran Eye Center
The John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah is an ophthalmology clinical care and research facility in the Mountain West. Physicians provide comprehensive care in all ophthalmic subspecialties. Moran supports 15 research laboratories t ...
. The university's athletic teams, the
Utes, participate in
NCAA
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. It also organizes the athletic programs of colleges an ...
Division I athletics (
FBS for football) as a member of the
Pac-12 Conference
The Pac-12 Conference is a collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference, that operates in the Western United States, participating in 24 sports at the NCAA Division I level. Its College football, football teams compete in the NCAA D ...
.
Twenty-two
Rhodes Scholars
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Established in 1902, it is the oldest graduate scholarship in the world. It is considered among the world' ...
, four
Nobel Prize winners
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, three
Turing Award
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winners, eight
MacArthur Fellows
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, various
Pulitzer Prize
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winners, two astronauts,
Gates Cambridge Scholars, and
Churchill Scholars have been affiliated with the university as students, researchers, or faculty members in its history.
History
Soon after the
Mormon pioneers
The Mormon pioneers were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), also known as Latter Day Saints, who migrated beginning in the mid-1840s until the late-1860s across the United States from the Midwest to the S ...
arrived in the Salt Lake valley in 1847,
Brigham Young
Brigham Young (; June 1, 1801August 29, 1877) was an American religious leader and politician. He was the second President of the Church (LDS Church), president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), from 1847 until his ...
began organizing a Board of Regents to establish a university. The university was established on February 28, 1850, as the ''University of Deseret'' by the General Assembly of the provisional
State of Deseret
The State of Deseret (modern pronunciation , contemporaneously ) was a proposed state of the United States, proposed in 1849 by settlers from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in Salt Lake City. The provisional state ...
, and
Orson Spencer
Orson Spencer (March 14, 1802 – October 15, 1855) was a prolific writer and prominent member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He served in several highly visible positions within the church and left an extensive legacy of ...
was appointed as the first chancellor of the university. Early classes were held in private homes, or wherever space could be found. The university closed in 1853 due to a lack of funds and lack of
feeder school
A college-preparatory school (usually shortened to preparatory school or prep school) is a type of secondary school. The term refers to public, private independent or parochial schools primarily designed to prepare students for higher education ...
s.
Following years of intermittent classes in the Salt Lake City
Council House
A council house is a form of British public housing built by local authorities. A council estate is a building complex containing a number of council houses and other amenities like schools and shops. Construction took place mainly from 1919 ...
, the university began to be re-established in 1867 under the direction of
David O. Calder
David Orson Calder (June 18, 1823 – July 3, 1884) was a prominent early pioneer settler in Utah.
Biography
A native of Thurso, Caithness, Scotland, he joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in 1840, and in 18 ...
, who was followed by
John R. Park in 1869. The university moved out of the council house into the Union Academy building in 1876 and into Union Square in 1884. In 1892, the school's name was changed to the University of Utah, and
John R. Park began arranging to obtain land belonging to the U.S. Army's
Fort Douglas
Camp Douglas was established in October 1862, during the American Civil War, as a small military garrison about three miles east of Salt Lake City, Utah, to protect the overland mail route and telegraph lines along the Central Overland Route. In ...
on the east bench of the
Salt Lake Valley
Salt Lake Valley is a valley in Salt Lake County in the north-central portion of the U.S. state of Utah. It contains Salt Lake City and many of its suburbs, notably Murray, Sandy, South Jordan, West Jordan, and West Valley City; its total po ...
, where the university moved permanently in 1900. Additional
Fort Douglas
Camp Douglas was established in October 1862, during the American Civil War, as a small military garrison about three miles east of Salt Lake City, Utah, to protect the overland mail route and telegraph lines along the Central Overland Route. In ...
land has been granted to the university over the years, and the fort was officially closed on October 26, 1991. Upon his death in 1900, Dr. John R. Park bequeathed his entire fortune to the university.
The university grew rapidly in the early 20th century but was involved in an
academic freedom
Academic freedom is a moral and legal concept expressing the conviction that the freedom of inquiry by faculty members is essential to the mission of the academy as well as the principles of academia, and that scholars should have freedom to teac ...
controversy in 1915 when
Joseph T. Kingsbury recommended that five faculty members be dismissed after a graduation speaker made a speech critical of Utah governor
William Spry
William Spry (January 11, 1864 – April 21, 1929) was an American politician who was the third Governor of the State of Utah. He is the namesake of the William Spry Agriculture Building that houses the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food.
...
. One third of the faculty resigned in protest of these dismissals. Some felt that the dismissals were a result of
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, informally known as the LDS Church or Mormon Church, is a Nontrinitarianism, nontrinitarian Christianity, Christian church that considers itself to be the Restorationism, restoration of the ...
' influence on the university, while others felt that they reflected a more general pattern of repressing religious and political expression that might be deemed offensive. The controversy was largely resolved when Kingsbury resigned in 1916, but university operations were again interrupted by World War I, and later
The Great Depression
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and World War II. Student enrollment dropped to a low of 3,418 during the last year of World War II, but
A. Ray Olpin made substantial additions to campus following the war, and enrollment reached 12,000 by the time he retired in 1964. Growth continued in the following decades as the university developed into a research center for fields such as computer science and medicine.
During the
2002 Winter Olympics
The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Salt Lake 2002 ( arp, Niico'ooowu' 2002; Gosiute Shoshoni: ''Tit'-so-pi 2002''; nv, Sooléí 2002; Shoshoni: ''Soónkahni 2002''), was an internation ...
, the university hosted the Olympic Village,
a housing complex for the Olympic and Paralympic athletes, as well as the opening and closing ceremonies.
Multiple large improvements were made to the university prior to the events, including extensive renovations to the
Rice-Eccles Stadium,
a
light rail line leading to downtown Salt Lake City, a new student center known as the Heritage Center,
an array of new student housing, and what is now a 180-room campus hotel and conference center.
The University of Utah Asia Campus opened as an
international branch campus
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in the Incheon Global Campus in
Songdo,
Incheon
Incheon (; ; or Inch'ŏn; literally "kind river"), formerly Jemulpo or Chemulp'o (제물포) until the period after 1910, officially the Incheon Metropolitan City (인천광역시, 仁川廣域市), is a city located in northwestern South Kore ...
, South Korea in 2014. Three other European and American universities are also participating. The Asia Campus was funded by the South Korean government.
In 2015, the university helped open the Ensign College of Public Health in Kpong, Ghana.
In 2019, the university was named a member of the
Association of American Universities
The Association of American Universities (AAU) is an organization of American research universities devoted to maintaining a strong system of academic research and education. Founded in 1900, it consists of 63 universities in the United States ( ...
.
Campus
Campus takes up , including the Health Sciences complex,
Research Park
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Asia
ASEAN Economic Community
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...
, and
Fort Douglas
Camp Douglas was established in October 1862, during the American Civil War, as a small military garrison about three miles east of Salt Lake City, Utah, to protect the overland mail route and telegraph lines along the Central Overland Route. In ...
.
It is located on the east bench of the
Salt Lake Valley
Salt Lake Valley is a valley in Salt Lake County in the north-central portion of the U.S. state of Utah. It contains Salt Lake City and many of its suburbs, notably Murray, Sandy, South Jordan, West Jordan, and West Valley City; its total po ...
, close to the
Wasatch Range
The Wasatch Range ( ) or Wasatch Mountains is a mountain range in the western United States that runs about from the Utah-Idaho border south to central Utah. It is the western edge of the greater Rocky Mountains, and the eastern edge of the G ...
and approximately 2 miles east of
downtown Salt Lake City
Downtown (also called City Center) is the oldest district in Salt Lake City, Utah. The grid from which the entire city is laid out originates at Temple Square, the location of the Salt Lake Temple.
Location
Downtown Salt Lake City is usually def ...
.
Most courses take place on the west side of campus, known as lower campus due to its lower elevation.
Presidents Circle
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is a loop of buildings named after past university presidents with a courtyard in the center. Major libraries on lower campus include the
J. Willard Marriott Library and the
S.J. Quinney Law Library.
The primary
student activity center
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is the
A. Ray Olpin University Union, and campus fitness centers include the Health, Physical Education, and Recreation Complex (HPER) and the Eccles Student Life Center.
Lower campus is also home to most public venues, such as the
Rice-Eccles Stadium, the
Jon M. Huntsman Center
The Jon M. Huntsman Center is a 15,000-seat indoor arena in the western United States, on the campus of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. It is the home of the Utah Utes of the Pac-12 Conference, the primary venue for Utah Utes men's b ...
, and the
Utah Museum of Fine Arts
The Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) is the region's primary resource for culture and visual arts. It is located in the Marcia and John Price Museum Building in Salt Lake City, Utah on the University of Utah campus near Rice-Eccles Stadium. Works ...
, a museum with rotating exhibitions and a permanent collection of American, European, African, and Asian art. Venues for performing arts include
Kingsbury Hall
Kingsbury Hall is a center for the performing arts located on the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City, Utah.
History
Kingsbury Hall was designed by Edward O. Anderson and Lorenzo Snow Young and built in 1930. It was named after Joseph ...
, used for touring companies and concerts, Pioneer Memorial Theatre, used by the professional
Pioneer Theatre Company
The Pioneer Theatre Company (PTC) is one of four professional theatre companies in Utah, and the only fully professional theatre in Salt Lake City, contracting with union members belonging to Actors' Equity Association (AEA), Stage Directors an ...
, David P. Gardner Hall, used by the School of Music and for musical performances, and the Marriott Center for Dance.
Red Butte Garden
Red Butte Garden and Arboretum consists of a botanical garden, arboretum, and amphitheatre operated by the University of Utah, in the foothills of the Wasatch Range in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. It is open year-round to the public. Red ...
, with formal gardens and natural areas, as well as the new site of the
Utah Museum of Natural History, is located on the far east side of campus.
The health sciences complex, at the northeast end of campus, includes the
University of Utah Medical Center,
Primary Children's Medical Center
Intermountain Primary Children's Hospital (PCH) (formerly Primary Children's Medical Center) is a nationally ranked pediatric acute care children's teaching hospital located in Salt Lake City, Utah. The hospital has 289 pediatric beds and is aff ...
, the
Huntsman Cancer Institute
Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) is an NCI-designated cancer research facility and hospital located on the campus of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is the only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center i ...
, the
Moran Eye Center
The John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah is an ophthalmology clinical care and research facility in the Mountain West. Physicians provide comprehensive care in all ophthalmic subspecialties. Moran supports 15 research laboratories t ...
, and th
Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library South of the health sciences complex, several university residence halls and apartments are clustered together near
Fort Douglas
Camp Douglas was established in October 1862, during the American Civil War, as a small military garrison about three miles east of Salt Lake City, Utah, to protect the overland mail route and telegraph lines along the Central Overland Route. In ...
and the Heritage Center, which serves as a student center and cafeteria for this area. In addition, there are 1,115 university apartments for students, staff, and faculty across three apartment complexes on campus. At the southeast end of campus is
Research Park
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Asia
ASEAN Economic Community
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...
, which is home to research companies including
ARUP Laboratories
Associated Regional and University Pathologists, Inc. (ARUP Laboratories) is a Salt Lake City, Utah-based nonprofit laboratory at University of Utah's Department of Pathology. It is located in the University of Utah Research Park and provides nat ...
,
Evans & Sutherland
Evans & Sutherland is a pioneering American computer firm in the computer graphics field. Its current products are used in digital projection environments like planetariums. Its simulation business, which it sold to Rockwell Collins, sold products ...
,
Sarcos
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,
Biofire Diagnostics, and
Myriad Genetics
Myriad Genetics, Inc. is an American genetic testing and precision medicine company based in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. Myriad employs a number of proprietary technologies that permit doctors and patients to understand the genetic bas ...
.
Courses are also held at off-campus centers located in
St. George
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and
Sandy.
In July 2017, the Academic Senate bestowed the designation of tobacco-free campus on the university, but rules were not enforced until 2018. The rule prohibits students and faculty from "smoking or using chewing tobacco, electronic cigarettes and all other recreational nicotine-delivery products on any property owned, leased or controlled by the University of Utah."
Student residences
The University of Utah provides student housing in a 34-building housing complex on campus. The complex consists of nine housing areas: Chapel Glen, Gateway Heights, Sage Point, Officer's Circle, Benchmark Plaza, Shoreline Ridge, the Donna Garff Marriott Honors Residential Scholars Community (MHC for short), the Lassonde Studios, and Kahlert Village. The MHC is a dormitory strictly for honors students and was completed in fall 2012. Built in 2016, the Lassonde Studios is part of the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute and houses 400 students; the studios also feature a "creative garage" with 3D printers and spaces for startups. Kahlert Village, completed August 2020, houses 990 first-year students.
Transportation
A number of campus shuttles, running on biodiesel and used vegetable oil,
circle the campus on six different routes. The
Utah Transit Authority
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(UTA) runs several buses through the university area as well as the
TRAX Red Line (
light rail), which runs to
South Jordan
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. Riders can travel downtown, to ''
FrontRunner
FrontRunner is a commuter rail train operated by the Utah Transit Authority that operates along the Wasatch Front in north-central Utah with service from the Ogden Intermodal Transit Center in central Weber County through Davis County, Salt ...
'' (
commuter rail
Commuter rail, or suburban rail, is a passenger rail transport service that primarily operates within a metropolitan area, connecting commuters to a central city from adjacent suburbs or commuter towns. Generally commuter rail systems are con ...
), to
West Valley, to the
Salt Lake City International Airport
Salt Lake City International Airport is a civil-military airport located about west of Downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, in the United States. The airport is the closest commercial airport for more than 2.5 million people and is within a 30-minu ...
, or to
Draper
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History
Drapers were an important trade guild during the medieval period ...
by transferring to the TRAX
Green
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or
Blue
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lines. Students and staff can use their university IDs to ride UTA buses, TRAX, and ''FrontRunner''.
In 2012, the university unveiled a new plan for a more conducive campus for bicyclers called the "Bicycle Master Plan" which aims to transform the campus into a safer and more accessible place for bicyclers and to promote the increase of bicycle ridership. The plan emphasizes both campus pathways and on-street facilities that connect the core campus area with surrounding neighborhoods. The Bicycle Master Plan gives guidelines for facilities and programs that are within the University's jurisdiction. It also provides recommendations for the University to work with external entities such as UDOT, UTA, and Salt Lake City to improve bicycling conditions in locations that are important to the campus environment, but which are not under the University's direct control.
Sustainability
Sustainability efforts include a permanent sustainability office, a campus
cogeneration
Cogeneration or combined heat and power (CHP) is the use of a heat engine or power station to generate electricity and useful heat at the same time.
Cogeneration is a more efficient use of fuel or heat, because otherwise- wasted heat from elect ...
plant, building upgrades and energy efficient building standards, behavior modification programs, purchasing local
produce
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for campus dining, a farmers market, and student groups, as well as a branch of the
Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective.
Sustainability and transportation are also a large part of the university's campus master plan. The Sustainable Endowments Institute gave the university a "B+" in its College Sustainability Report Card 2011, with A's for
climate change and energy
In the 21st century, the earth's climate and its energy policy interact and their relationship is studied and governed by a variety of national and international institutions.
The relationships between energy-resource depletion, climate change, ...
, food and recycling, student involvement, and transportation.
The expanded recycling program launched on July 1, 2007. Since its launch, the program has continued to grow and refine its procedures to better accommodate a growing campus' needs. Currently there are programs in place for paper, cardboard, aluminum, batteries, glass, printer cartridges, wooden pallets and plastics #1 and #2.
Renewable energy
The university is ranked 8th by the
EPA
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an independent executive agency of the United States federal government tasked with environmental protection matters. President Richard Nixon proposed the establishment of EPA on July 9, 1970; it be ...
for annual
green power
Green Power is a non-governmental organisation in Hong Kong founded in 1988, concerned with the city's environmental issues.
Activities and works
Environmental education
Green Power established the first Green Schools Network in Hong Kong ...
usage among universities, with 49% of its power coming from
geothermal and
solar sources.
The university houses 10 solar array systems, including a 330-kilowatt system on the rooftop of the Natural History Museum of Utah and a 262-kilowatt system at the HPER East building. The combined arrays annually produce 1,096,340 kilowatt hours, and are supported by a student fee sustainability program established in 2008.
On November 1, 2019, the university entered into a renewable energy partnership with
Rocky Mountain Power
PacifiCorp is an electric power company in the western United States.
PacifiCorp has two business units:
# Pacific Power, a regulated electric utility with service territory throughout Oregon, northern California, and southeastern Washington.
...
and
Cyrq Energy which allows the purchase of 20 megawatts of geothermal energy for 25 years. The contract offsets half of the electricity produced by the university and reduces the university's carbon emissions by 23%.
Organization
The University of Utah is governed by a 10-member
Board of Trustees
A board of directors (commonly referred simply as the board) is an executive committee that jointly supervises the activities of an organization, which can be either a for-profit or a nonprofit organization such as a business, nonprofit organiz ...
, 8 of whom are appointed by the
Governor of Utah
A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, ranking under the head of state and in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of state's official representative. Depending on the type of political ...
with the consent of the
Utah Senate
The Utah State Senate is the upper house of the Utah State Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Utah. The Utah Senate is composed of 29 elected members representing an equal number of senate districts. Each senate district is c ...
. The President of the University of Utah Alumni Association serves as the 9th member, and the President of the Associated Students of the University of Utah (ASUU) serves as the 10th member. The 8 appointed members serve for four-year terms, four expiring on June 30 of each odd-numbered year. The two
ex officio member
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s serve for the terms of their respective offices.
The University of Utah and the other public colleges and universities of the Utah System of Higher Education are governed by the
Utah Board of Higher Education (previously the Utah State Board of Regents) whose chief executive officer is the Commissioner of Higher Education.
The chief executive officer of the University of Utah is the president, who reports to the Board of Higher Education and, with the approval of the trustees, submits budgets, tuition adjustments, and academic program plans, appoints faculty, and develops policy initiatives.
Subject to the Board of Trustees, the university faculty have authority to legislate on matters of educational policy via the
Academic Senate. The Senate is composed of 100 faculty members proportionally representing and elected by their respective colleges, 2 elected
dean
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People
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Titles
* ...
s, and 18 students from the ASUU, one from each college and the ASUU president. The Senate also includes the
University President
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In most Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth and former Commonwealth n ...
,
Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Senior Vice President for Health Sciences, and all non-elected deans as
ex officio member
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s who may debate and present motions but do not vote. Much of the actual Senate work is carried out by 12 Senate-elected
committee
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s which work on the central academic issues of the institution. The committees report to the full Senate and the Senate often acts on their proposals as well as on issues brought to its attention by the administration.
As of 2014, the university's revenues totaled $3.6 billion, of which 44% comes from patient care, 19% from sales and services, 10% from grants and contracts, 8.2% from tuition and fees, 7.7% from state appropriations, 3.4% from auxiliary enterprises, and the rest from other revenues.
[ Football income was $56 million in 2017-2018.
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Academics and rankings
The University of Utah is a public flagship four-year research university accredited through the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities
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since 1933. The U organizes its 150 academic departments and programs into 17 colleges and schools. The School for Cultural and Social Transformation is the university's newest college, with its first graduating class in 2018.
* College of Architecture and Planning
* David Eccles School of Business
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* School for Cultural and Social Transformation
* School of Dentistry
* College of Education
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* College of Engineering
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* College of Fine Arts
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* College of Health
* University of Utah Honors College
* College of Humanities
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* S.J. Quinney College of Law
* College of Mines and Earth Sciences
* College of Nursing
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* College of Pharmacy
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* College of Science
* College of Social and Behavioral Science
* College of Social Work
The University operates on a semester calendar with the rest of the Utah higher education system. Undergraduate tuition and fees for 2015–2016 were $8,240 for Utah residents (about 325% the cost of tuition and fees in 2000, $2,534 for 13 credit hours per semester, 2 semesters), and $26,180 for non-residents per 12-credit-hour semester.
Admissions and demographics
For the Class of 2023 (enrolling Fall 2019), Utah received 24,404 applications and accepted 15,159 (62%), with 4,249 enrolling. The middle 50% range of SAT
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scores for enrolling freshmen was 572.5-680 for evidence-based reading and writing, 570-700 for math, and 1150-1370 for the composite.[ The middle 50% ACT score range was 22-28 for math, 21-31 for English, and 22-29 for the composite.][ The average high school grade point average (]GPA
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) was 3.66.[
The university uses a holistic admissions process and weighs ACT/SAT standardized test scores, GPA, grade trend, rigorous AP/IB/Honors classes taken in high school, academic achievements, along with other "personal achievements and characteristics".
In Fall 2015, the undergraduate and graduate student body was 31,551, with 23,794 ]undergraduate
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students and 7,757 graduate students; 73% of students were full-time, 56% were male and 44% female, and 82% were Utah residents. The undergraduate student body was 69% white, 11% Hispanic, 6% non-resident alien, 5% Asian, 4% two or more races, 1% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 1% black, and 1% Native American. Ethnicity or citizenship was unknown for 2%.[
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Notable programs
Ballet
The Department of Ballet offers the top ranked ballet and ballroom dance program in the United States and is one of the oldest and most reputable university ballet departments in the country. The Department was founded by William F. Christensen in 1951, who also founded the San Francisco Ballet
San Francisco Ballet is the oldest ballet company in the United States, founded in 1933 as the San Francisco Opera Ballet under the leadership of ballet master Adolph Bolm. The company is currently based in the War Memorial Opera House, San Franc ...
and Ballet West
Ballet West is an American ballet company based in Salt Lake City, Utah. It was founded in 1963 as the Utah Civic Ballet by Willam F. Christensen, the company's first artistic director, and Glenn Walker Wallace, who served as its first president. ...
companies
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.
Biology
The university has made unique contributions to the study of genetics
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due in part to long-term genealogy
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efforts of the LDS Church
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, which has allowed researchers to trace genetic disorders through several generations. The relative homogeneity of Utah's population also makes it an ideal laboratory for studies of population genetics. The university is home to the Genetic Science Learning Center, a resource which educates the public about genetics through its website.
Computer Science
The University of Utah was one of the original four nodes of ARPANET
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, the world's first packet-switched network
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and embryo of the current worldwide Internet. The School of Computing produced many of the early pioneers in computer science
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and graphics
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, including Turing Award
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winner Alan Kay
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, Pixar
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founder Ed Catmull
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, Atari
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founder Nolan Bushnell
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, and Adobe
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founder John Warnock
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. Notable innovations of computer science faculty and alumni include the first method for representing surface textures in graphical images, the Gouraud shading
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model, magnetic ink printing technology, the Johnson counter logic circuit
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, the oldest algebraic mathematics package still in use (REDUCE
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), the Phong reflection model
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, the Phong shading
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method, and the rendering equation
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. Through the movement of Utah graduates and faculty, research at the University spread outward to laboratories like Xerox Parc
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, JPL, and the New York Institute of Technology
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. Present graphics research is focused on biomedical applications for visualization
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* Information visualiz ...
, scientific computing
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, and image analysis
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at the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute.
Dentistry
In March 2012, the university received unanimous approval from the board of trustees to create a new academic college, the School of Dentistry, which is the university's first new college in sixty years. The new school has received funding for a new structure and has started as a debt-free program. The new school enrolled its first students for the fall semester of 2013 and averages the same cost as the university's medical school tuition.
Law
The S.J. Quinney College of Law, founded in 1913, was the only law school
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in Utah until the 1970s. The law school was ranked the #37 best law school in the country in the 2023 U.S. News "Best Law Schools" rankings.
Medicine
The University of Utah (University of Utah Hospital
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) has the only accredited allopathic medical school
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in the State of Utah. The medical school has made several notable contributions to medicine, such as establishing the first Cerebrovascular Disease
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Unit west of the Mississippi River
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in 1970 and administering the world's first permanent artificial heart, the Jarvik-7
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, to Barney Clark in 1982.
Pharmacology
The University of Utah College of Pharmacy is 4th in the nation for NIH research grants. The department of Pharmacology and Toxicology within the School of Pharmacy is world-renowned for research in epilepsy treatment with their Anticonvulsant Drug Development (ADD) program.
Political Science
The university is host to the Neal A. Maxwell Lecture Series in Political Theory and Contemporary Politics, a forum for political theorists to share their newest theoretical work, and is home to the Hinckley Institute of Politics, which places more than 350 students every year in local, state, national, and global internships.
Turkish Studies Program and Armenian genocide denial
The university's Turkish Studies Program, funded by Turkish Coalition of America
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and headed by M. Hakan Yavuz, has been criticized for promoting Armenian genocide denial
Armenian genocide denial is the claim that the Ottoman Empire and its ruling party, the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), did not commit genocide against its Armenian citizens during World War I—a crime documented in a large body of ...
. Nevertheless, the university had established itself as a "denialist beachhead" prior to the creation of the Turkish Studies Program. The University of Utah Press
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has published several books denying the Armenian genocide
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, beginning with Guenter Lewy
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's ''The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey
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''. The book's publication by the University of Utah Press was arranged by Yavuz himself.
Professor Keith David Watenpaugh
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charges the program with "promoting the falsification of history through its grants and political advocacy... the University of Utah has provided an institutional home to genocide denial." In 2020, regarding "a student complaint nd messages of concern from the Armenian communitta bout the content of an article written by and assigned in a class taught by Hakan Yavuz," the university made a statement, according to which: "The United States, the state of Utah
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and the University of Utah (as a state entity), recognize the historical events of 1915 as the Armenian genocide".
Athletics
The university has 9 men's and 11 women's varsity teams. Athletic teams include men's baseball, basketball, football, golf, hockey, lacrosse, skiing, swimming/diving, and tennis and women's basketball, cross country, gymnastics, skiing, soccer, softball, swimming/diving, tennis, track and field, and volleyball. The school's sports teams are called the Ute
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s, though some teams have an additional nickname, such as "Runnin' Utes" for the men's basketball team. The university participates in the NCAA
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's Division I ( FBS for football) as part of the Pac-12 Conference
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. When they were in the same conference, there was a fierce BYU–Utah rivalry
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, and the Utah–BYU football game, traditionally the season finale, has been called the "Holy War" by national broadcasting commentators. The university fight song
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is "Utah Man", commonly played at athletic games and other university events. In 1996, Swoop was introduced as the new mascot of the University of Utah. Because of relationships with the local Ute Indians, Utah adopted a new mascot. While still known as the Utes, Utah is now represented by the Red-tailed Hawk
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known for the use of his tail feathers in Ute head-dresses, and said he "Reflects the soaring spirit of our state and school"
In 2002, the university was one of 20 schools to make the '' U.S. News & World Report'' College Sports Honor Roll. In 2005, Utah became the first school to produce No. 1 overall draft picks in both the NFL draft
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and NBA draft for the same year. Alex Smith
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was picked first overall by the San Francisco 49ers
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in the 2005 NFL Draft
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, and Andrew Bogut
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was picked first overall by the Milwaukee Bucks
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in the 2005 NBA Draft
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. The university has won thirteen NCAA Skiing Championships
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, most recently in 2022, as well as the 1977 AIAW
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National Women's Skiing Championship.
Men's basketball
The men's basketball team won the NCAA
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title in 1944
Events
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and the NIT crown in 1947. Arnie Ferrin
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, the only four-time All-American in Utah basketball history, played for both the 1944 and 1947 teams. He also went on to help the Minneapolis Lakers
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win NBA
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Championships in 1949 and 1951. Wat Misaka
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, the first person of Asian descent to play in the NBA, also played for Utah during this era.
Utah basketball rose again to national prominence when head coach Rick Majerus
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took his team, including guard Andre Miller
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, combo forward Hanno Möttölä
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, and post player Michael Doleac, to the NCAA Final Four in 1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
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. After eliminating North Carolina
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to advance to the final round, Utah lost the championship game to Kentucky
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, 78–69.
Football
In 2004–2005, the football team, coached by Urban Meyer
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and quarterbacked by Alex Smith
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, along with defensive great Eric Weddle
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, went 11–0 during the regular season and defeated Pittsburgh
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35–7 in the 2005 Fiesta Bowl, becoming the first team from a conference without an automatic Bowl Championship Series
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(BCS) bid to go to a BCS bowl game. The team ended its perfect 12–0 season ranked 4th in AP polling.
2008–2009 was another undefeated year for the football team, coached by Kyle Whittingham
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, as they finished the season 13–0 and defeated Alabama 31–17 in the 2009 Sugar Bowl
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. Utah finished the season 2nd in AP polling, their highest rank ever. At the end of the season, the Utes were the only unbeaten team in the country, with the nation's longest active streak of bowl victories (8).
The Utah Utes moved to the Pac-12 Conference for the start of the 2011–2012 football season. They are in the South Division with University of Colorado
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, University of Arizona
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, Arizona State University
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, UCLA
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and University of Southern California
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. Their first game in the Pac-12 was at USC
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* University of South Carolina, a public research university
** University of South Carolina System, the main university and its satellite campuses
**South Carolina Gamecocks, the school athletic program
* University of ...
on September 10, 2011, and resulted in a 23–14 Utah loss.
Gymnastics
The women's gymnastics team, coached by Megan Marsden
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, has won ten national championships, including the 1981 AIAW
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championship, and placed 2nd nationally eight times. As of 2013, it has qualified for the NCAA championship
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every year since 1976, the only program to do so. The program has averaged over 11,000 fans per meet 1992–2010 and has been the NCAA gymnastics season attendance champions 16 of these 19 years. In 2010, there was an average of 14,213 fans per meet, the largest crowd being 15,030.
Marching band
The university marching band
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, known as the " Pride of Utah", perform at all home football games, as well as some away games and bowl games. They performed at the 2005 BCS Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, the 2009 BCS Allstate Sugar Bowl, and the Inaugural Parade of President Barack Obama
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.
The band began as a military band in the 1940s. In 1948, university president A. Ray Olpin recruited Ron Gregory from Ohio State University
The Ohio State University, commonly called Ohio State or OSU, is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio. A member of the University System of Ohio, it has been ranked by major institutional rankings among the best publ ...
to form a collegiate marching band. Support for the band dwindled in the 60s, and ASUU (the Associated Students of the University of Utah) discontinued its funding in 1969. The band was revived in 1976 after a fund raising effort under the direction of Gregg I. Hanson. As of 2011, the band is under the direction of Dr. Brian Sproul.
Student life
Close to 50% of freshmen live on campus, but most students choose to live elsewhere after their first year, with 13% of all undergraduates living on campus. The university is located in a large metropolitan area
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, but many students live in the neighborhoods immediately surrounding the university. An additional 1,115 family apartments are available to students, staff, and faculty. One of the university's primary four goals for long-term campus growth is to increase student engagement through the addition of on-campus housing, intramural fields, athletic centers, and a new student activity center
A student center (or student centre) is a type of building found on university and some high school campuses. In the United States, such a building may also be called a student union, student commons, or union. The term "student union" refers mos ...
.
The current student activity center, the A. Ray Olpin University Union, is a common gathering place for university-wide events such as Crimson Nights, roughly monthly student activity nights; PlazaFest, a fair for campus groups at the start of the school year; and the Grand Kerfuffle, a concert at the end of the school year. The building includes a cafeteria, computer lab, recreational facilities, and a ballroom for special events. The Union also houses the Lowell Bennion Community Service Center, CESA (Center for Ethnic Student Affairs) which provides an inclusive space for students and houses various advising programs of the Office of Equity and Diversity, the Union Programming Council which is in charge of promoting student life on campus through events like Crimson Nights, and ASUU (the Associated Students of the University of Utah), which is responsible for appropriating funds to student groups and organizations on campus. ASUU holds primary
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* Primary (band), from Australia
* Primary (musician), hip hop musician and record producer from South Korea
* Primary Music, Israeli record label
Works
* ...
and general elections each year for student representatives, typically with 10–15% of the student population voting.
Due to the large number of LDS Church
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, informally known as the LDS Church or Mormon Church, is a Nontrinitarianism, nontrinitarian Christianity, Christian church that considers itself to be the Restorationism, restoration of the ...
members at the university, there is an LDS Institute of Religion
An Institute of Religion is a local organization that provides religious education for young adults (ages 18–30) who are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Local institutes may function in church meetinghous ...
building near main campus, as well as several LDS student groups and 46 campus wards
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Division or unit
* Hospital ward, a hospital division, floor, or room set aside for a particular class or group of patients, for example the psychiatric ward
* Prison ward, a division of a penal institution such as a priso ...
. Approximately 650 students are part of 6 sororities
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Generally, membership in a fraternity or sorority is obtained as an Undergraduate education, undergraduate student, but conti ...
and 8 fraternities
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at the university, most of which have chapter houses on "Greek Row" just off campus.
The University of Utah has a dry campus
"Dry campus" is the term used for the banning of alcohol at colleges and universities, regardless of the owner's age or intention to consume it elsewhere. The policy has received media attention in the United States, although dry campuses and deba ...
, meaning that alcohol is banned on campus. In 2004, Utah
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became the first state with a law expressly permitting concealed weapons
Concealed carry, or carrying a concealed weapon (CCW), is the practice of carrying a weapon (usually a sidearm such as a handgun), either in proximity to or on one's person or in public places in a manner that hides or conceals the weapon's pr ...
on public university campuses. The University of Utah tried to uphold its gun ban but the Utah Supreme Court
The Utah Supreme Court is the supreme court of the state of Utah, United States. It has final authority of interpretation of the Utah Constitution. The Utah Supreme Court is composed of five members: a chief justice, an associate chief justice, ...
rejected the ban in 2006.
Media
The university has several public broadcasting affiliations, many of which utilize the Eccles Broadcast Center
The Dolores Doré Eccles Broadcast Center (often shortened to Eccles Broadcast Center) is headquarters of three broadcast stations and a statewide educational consortium. The center houses KUED, KUER, KUEN and the Utah Education Network. The fa ...
. These stations include PBS Utah (formerly branded as KUED
KUED (channel 7), branded on-air as PBS Utah, is a PBS member television station in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The station is owned by the University of Utah, and has studios at the Eccles Broadcast Center on Wasatch Dr ...
channel 7), a PBS
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcasting, public broadcaster and Non-commercial activity, non-commercial, Terrestrial television, free-to-air television network based in Arlington, Virginia. PBS is a publicly fu ...
member station and producer of local documentaries; KUEN
KUEN, virtual channel 9 ( UHF digital channel 36), is an educational independent television station serving Salt Lake City, Utah, United States that is licensed to Ogden. The station is owned by the Utah State Board of Regents, and is operat ...
channel 9, an educational station for teachers and students from the Utah Education Network
The Utah Education Network (UEN) is a broadband and digital broadcast network serving public education, higher education, applied technology campuses, libraries, and public charter schools throughout the state of Utah. The Network facilitates inte ...
; KUER
KUER-FM (90.1 MHz) is a public radio station in Salt Lake City, Utah. Owned by the University of Utah, its studios are located in the Eccles Broadcast Center on the University of Utah campus, while its transmitter is located on Farnsworth Peak ...
90.1 FM, a public radio affiliate of National Public Radio
National Public Radio (NPR, stylized in all lowercase) is an American privately and state funded nonprofit media organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California. It differs from other n ...
, American Public Media
American Public Media (APM) is an American company that produces and distributes public radio programs in the United States, the second largest company of its type after NPR. Its non-profit parent, American Public Media Group, also owns and oper ...
, and Public Radio International
Public Radio International (PRI) was an American public radio organization. Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, PRI provided programming to over 850 public radio stations in the United States.
PRI was one of the main providers of programm ...
; and K-UTE 1620.
''NewsBreak'' is the student-run television newscast on campus. During 2011, the program celebrated its 40th anniversary. Broadcasts air every Thursday night at 10 pm during the fall and spring semesters on KUEN
KUEN, virtual channel 9 ( UHF digital channel 36), is an educational independent television station serving Salt Lake City, Utah, United States that is licensed to Ogden. The station is owned by the Utah State Board of Regents, and is operat ...
.
''The Daily Utah Chronicle'', also referred to as the ''Chrony'', has been the university's independent, student-run paper since 1890. It publishes daily on school days during fall and spring semesters and weekly during summer semester. The paper typically runs between eight and twelve pages, with longer editions for weekend game guides. The paper converted to a broadsheet
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format in 2003 when the Newspaper Agency Corporation The Newspaper Agency Corporation Inc. (or NAC or NACorp) is a printing, delivery, and advertising company. It is jointly owned by the ''Deseret Morning News'' and ''The Salt Lake Tribune'', the two major daily newspapers in Salt Lake City, Utah.
In ...
began printing it. The Society of Professional Journalists
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selected the newspaper as one of three finalists for best all-around daily student newspaper in the nation in both 2007 and 2008. Staff from the ''Chronicle'' feed into Utah journalism circles, some of them rising to considerable prominence, such as former editor Matt Canham, whose work with ''The Salt Lake Tribune
''The Salt Lake Tribune'' is a newspaper published in the city of Salt Lake City, Utah. The ''Tribune'' is owned by The Salt Lake Tribune, Inc., a non-profit corporation. The newspaper's motto is "Utah's Independent Voice Since 1871."
History
...
'' earned him the Don Baker Investigative Reporting Award from the Utah Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists
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.
The University of Utah Press
The University of Utah Press is the independent publishing branch of the University of Utah and is a division of the J. Willard Marriott Library. Founded in 1949 by A. Ray Olpin, it is also the oldest university press in Utah. The mission of th ...
, the oldest press in Utah and now part of the J. Willard Marriott Library, publishes books on topics including the outdoors, anthropology
Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including past human species. Social anthropology studies patterns of behavi ...
and archaeology
Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...
, linguistics
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, creative nonfiction
Creative nonfiction (also known as literary nonfiction or narrative nonfiction or literary journalism or verfabula) is a genre of writing that uses literary styles and techniques to create factually accurate narratives. Creative nonfiction contra ...
, Mesoamerica
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, Native American studies, and Utah
Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to it ...
, Mormon
Mormons are a religious and cultural group related to Mormonism, the principal branch of the Latter Day Saint movement started by Joseph Smith in upstate New York during the 1820s. After Smith's death in 1844, the movement split into several ...
, and Western history. The Wallace Stegner Prize in American Environmental or Western History is presented annually by the press. Its Utah Series in Middle East Studies has been criticized for "specializing" in "methodologically flawed accounts" of the Armenian genocide
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that seek to reject the term genocide as being applicable to the event, and includes works by Guenter Lewy
Guenter Lewy (born 22 August 1923) is a German-born American author and political scientist who is a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His works span several topics, but he is most often associa ...
, Justin McCarthy, and Yücel Güçlü. The university is also home to a national literary journal, ''Quarterly West
''Quarterly West'' is an American literary magazine based at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Stories that have appeared in ''Quarterly West'' have been shortlisted for the Pushcart Prize, The Best American Short Stories and the O. H ...
''.
Notable alumni and faculty
Notable alumni include politicians Rocky Anderson
Ross Carl "Rocky" Anderson (born September 9, 1951), from the United States, is an attorney, writer, activist, civil and human rights advocate. He served two terms as the 33rd Mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah from 2000 to 2008. He is now running f ...
, Bob Bennett, Marsha K. Caddle, Merrill Cook
Merrill Cook (born May 6, 1946) is a Republican Party politician and businessman who served in the United States House of Representatives from Utah.
Early life and career
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah, Co ...
, E. Jake Garn, Jon Huntsman, Jr.
Jon Meade Huntsman Jr. (born March 26, 1960) is an American businessman, diplomat and politician who served as the 16th Governor of Utah from 2005 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the Ambassador of the United States to ...
, Karen Morgan, Frank E. Moss
Frank Edward "Ted" Moss (September 23, 1911 – January 29, 2003) was an American lawyer and politician. A Democrat, he served as a United States Senator from Utah from 1959 to 1977.
Early life and education
Frank Moss was born in Holladay ...
, Joshua Rush, and Karl Rove
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; recent LDS Church
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presidents Gordon B. Hinckley
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, Thomas S. Monson
Thomas Spencer Monson (August 21, 1927 – January 2, 2018) was an American religious leader, author, and the 16th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). As president, he was considered by adherents of the re ...
, and Russell M. Nelson
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; historian and Pulitzer Prize for History
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laureate Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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; authors Orson Scott Card
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, Stephen Covey, Shannon Hale
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People
* Shannon (given name)
* Shannon (surname)
* Shannon (American singer), stage name of singer Shannon Brenda Greene (born 1958)
* Shannon (South Korean singer), British-South Korean singer and actress Shannon Arrum ...
, Everett Errol Murdock, Terry Tempest Williams
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, and Wallace Stegner
Wallace Earle Stegner (February 18, 1909 – April 13, 1993) was an American novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, and historian, often called "The Dean of Western Writers". He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 and the U.S. National Book ...
; R Adams Cowley
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, William DeVries
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Early years and Medical School
William DeVries was born ...
, and Robert Jarvik
Robert Koffler Jarvik (born May 11, 1946) is an American scientist, researcher and entrepreneur known for his role in developing the Jarvik-7 artificial heart.
Early life
Robert Jarvik was born in Midland, Michigan, to Norman Eugene Jarvik and Ed ...
in medicine; historian Richard Foltz
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...
; educators Gordon Gee
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, Jonathan Westover, and Ann Weaver Hart
Ann Weaver Hart (born 1948) is the 21st, first female chief executive and former president of the University of Arizona. She is the first woman to hold the position, which she assumed on November 30, 2012. Previously, Hart was the ninth presiden ...
; reporter Martha Raddatz
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;, writer and canoeist Neal Moore
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and speed reading innovator Evelyn Nielsen Wood.
Notable science and engineering alumni include Jim Blinn
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; Mark W. Fuller, CEO of WET Design; Andrea Russell, Vice President of the International Society of Electrochemistry
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; Jim Clark
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, founder of Silicon Graphics
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, Netscape Communications Corporation
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, myCFO, and Healtheon
Healtheon was a dot-com company founded by James H. Clark and Pavan Nigam. The company's mission was to "use the power of computing and the Internet to revolutionize the healthcare industry, stripping away its inefficiencies and inequities and str ...
; Gretchen W. McClain, former NASA
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NASA was established in 1958, succeeding t ...
Deputy Associate Administrator of Human Space Exploration and Chief Director of the International Space Station
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; Henri Gouraud; John C. Cook who played a crucial role in establishing the field of ground-penetrating radar; Ralph Hartley
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Hartley was ...
; rocket scientist Joseph Majdalani; Alan Kay
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; Simon Ramo
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; and John Warnock
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, co-founder of Adobe Systems
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and headquartered in San Jose, California. It has historically specialized in software for the crea ...
.
Notable entrepreneur and business leader alumni include Alan Ashton, co-founder of WordPerfect and Thanksgiving Point
Thanksgiving Point is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit indoor and outdoor farm, garden, and museum complex in Lehi, Utah, United States. Its five main attractions include Ashton Gardens, Butterfly Biosphere, Farm Country, Museum of Ancient Life, and Museum ...
; Freestyle Skiër Tom Wallisch; Nolan Bushnell
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, founder of Atari
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and Chuck E. Cheese
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; Ed Catmull
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, co-founder of Pixar
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; J. Willard Marriott
John Willard Marriott, Sr. (September 17, 1900 – August 13, 1985) was an American entrepreneur and businessman. He was the founder of the Marriott Corporation (which became Marriott International in 1993), the parent company of the world's l ...
, founder of Marriott International
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; Robert A. "Bob" McDonald, CEO of Procter & Gamble
The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G) is an American multinational consumer goods corporation headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, founded in 1837 by William Procter and James Gamble. It specializes in a wide range of personal health/consumer hea ...
; David Neeleman
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, founder of JetBlue
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; and Telle Whitney
Telle Whitney is the former CEO and President of the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology. A computer scientist by training, she cofounded the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing with Anita Borg in 1994 and joined the Anita B ...
, CEO and President of the Anita Borg Institute
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In athletics, notable alumni include baseball player Chris Shelton; basketball players Andrew Bogut
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, Kyle Kuzma
Kyle Alexander Kuzma (born July 24, 1995) is an American professional basketball player for the Washington Wizards of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Utah Utes and was named first-team all-confere ...
, Andre Miller
Andre Lloyd Miller (born March 19, 1976) is an American former professional basketball player and the current head coach for the Grand Rapids Gold. Miller has played professional basketball for the Cleveland Cavaliers, Los Angeles Clippers, Phil ...
, and Keith Van Horn
Keith Adam Van Horn (born October 23, 1975) is an American former professional basketball player. Van Horn played for the New Jersey Nets, Philadelphia 76ers, New York Knicks, Milwaukee Bucks, and the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball ...
; football players Paul Kruger
Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger (; 10 October 1825 – 14 July 1904) was a South African politician. He was one of the dominant political and military figures in 19th-century South Africa, and President of the South African Republic (or ...
, Star Lotulelei, Jamal Anderson
Jamal Sharif Anderson (born September 30, 1972) is a former American football running back of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Atlanta Falcons in the seventh round of the 1994 NFL Draft. He played high school football at El ...
, Kevin Dyson, Eric Weddle
Eric Steven Weddle (born January 4, 1985) is an American former American football, football Safety (gridiron football position), safety who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 14 seasons. He played college football at University of ...
, Alex Smith
Alexander Douglas Smith (born May 7, 1984) is an American former quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 16 seasons. He played college football at Utah, where he received first-team All-American honors and won the 20 ...
, and Steve Smith Sr.
Stevonne Latrall Smith Sr. (born May 12, 1979) is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver for sixteen seasons in the National Football League (NFL), primarily with the Carolina Panthers, also playing for the Ba ...
; hall of fame karate grandmaster Dan Hausel; and football coach LaVell Edwards
Reuben LaVell Edwards (October 11, 1930 – December 29, 2016) was an American football head coach for Brigham Young University (BYU). With 257 career victories, he ranks as one of the most successful college football coaches of all time. Among ...
. Notable members of the athletics faculty include Sharrieff Shah, coach of the University of Utah football team and husband to Jen Shah
Jennifer Shah ( née Lui; born October 4, 1973) is an American television personality and convicted felon. She is a former cast member of the reality television series ''The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City''. Shah pleaded guilty to a criminal c ...
, cast member of the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City
''The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City'' (abbreviated ''RHOSLC'') is an American reality television series that premiered on November 11, 2020, on Bravo. Developed as the tenth installment of ''The Real Housewives'' franchise, it has aired three ...
.
Mykayla Skinner
MyKayla Brooke Skinner Harmer (born December 9, 1996) is an American former artistic gymnast. She was the 2020 Olympic vault silver medalist and was an alternate for the 2016 Olympic team. Skinner competed at the 2014 World Championships wh ...
2020 Olympic Gymnast and Vault Silver Medalist.
Notable alumni also includes serial killer Ted Bundy
Theodore Robert Bundy ( born Cowell; November 24, 1946 – January 24, 1989) was an American serial killer who kidnapped, raped and murdered numerous young women and girls during the 1970s and possibly earlier. After more than a decade ...
, who briefly attended the College of Law before dropping out.
Drag Queen Denali Foxx graduated from the University of Utah.
Notable faculty in science and engineering include David Evans and Ivan Sutherland
Ivan Edward Sutherland (born May 16, 1938) is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer, widely regarded as a pioneer of computer graphics. His early work in computer graphics as well as his teaching with David C. Evans in that subje ...
, founders of Evans and Sutherland
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; Bui Tuong Phong
Bui Tuong Phong (December 14, 1942 – July 1975) was a Vietnamese-born computer graphics researcher and pioneer. He invented the widely used Phong shading algorithm and Phong reflection model.
Life
Phong was born in Hanoi, then French Ind ...
, pioneer of computer graphics
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; Henry Eyring, known for studying chemical reaction rates; Stephen Jacobsen, founder of Sarcos
Sarcos Technology and Robotics Corporation (NASDAQ: STRC) is an American developer of robotics and microelectromechanical systems and related technologies. It was founded in the early 1980s when it was spun out from the University of Utah. Th ...
; Jindřich Kopeček
Jindřich Henry Kopeček was born in Strakonice, Czech Republic, as the son of Jan and Herta Zita (Krombholz) Kopeček. He is distinguished professor of pharmaceutical chemistry and distinguished professor of biomedical engineering at the Univer ...
and Sung Wan Kim, pioneers of polymeric drug delivery
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and gene delivery
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; Suhas Patil
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, founder of Cirrus Logic
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; Stanley Pons
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, who claimed to have discovered "cold fusion
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" in 1989; Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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...
, later co-winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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; Thomas Stockham
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, founder of Soundstream
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; and David W. Grainger, Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, winner of the “Excellence in Pharmaceutics” Award, and alumnus. In medicine, notable faculty include Mario Capecchi
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, the co-winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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; Willem Johan Kolff
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; and Russell M. Nelson
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. Biologist Ralph Vary Chamberlin
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, founding dean of the Medical School, professor, and later historian of the University, was also an alumnus.
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, Distinguished Professor of Human Genetics and Biology, co-winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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File:VES Awards 89 cropped.jpg, Ed Catmull
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, B.S. 1969, Ph.D. 1974, co-founder of Pixar
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, president of Walt Disney Animation Studios
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and Pixar Animation Studios
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File:John Warnock 2008.jpg, John Warnock
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, B.S. 1961, M.S. 1964, Ph.D. 1969, co-founder of Adobe Systems
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Inc.
File:James H. Clark.jpg, James H. Clark
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, Ph.D. 1974, founder of Netscape
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, Silicon Graphics
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, myCFO, Healtheon
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, co-author of the Catmull-Clark algorithm
File:Nolan Bushnell 2013.jpg, Nolan Bushnell
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, B.S. 1968, founder of Chuck E. Cheese's
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, co-founder of Atari
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File:J Willard Marriott.jpg, J. Willard Marriott
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, A.B. 1926, founder of Marriott International
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File:Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (32803708014).jpg, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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, B.A. 1960, received the Pulitzer Prize for History
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in 1991
File:Jake Garn.jpg, Jake Garn
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, B.S. 1955, U.S. Senator and Space Shuttle astronaut
File:Alan Kay (3097597186).jpg, Alan Kay
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, M.S. 1968, Ph.D. 1969, father of Object-Oriented Programming, 2003 Turing Award
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and 2004 Kyoto Prize
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winner
File:William DeVries (cropped).jpg, William DeVries
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, B.S. 1966, M.D. 1970, performed the first transplant of a Total Artificial Heart using the Jarvik-7 model
File:Robert A. McDonald Official Portrait.jpg, Robert A. McDonald, M.B.A. 1978, past CEO of Procter & Gamble
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, 8th United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs
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File:Hartley ralph-vinton-lyon-001.jpg, Ralph Hartley
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Hartley was ...
, A.B. 1909, invented the Hartley oscillator
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and the Hartley transform
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, recipient of the IEEE Medal of Honor
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File:Ivan Sutherland at CHM.jpg, Ivan Sutherland
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, past Professor of Computer Science from 1968-1974, winner of the Turing Award
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in 1988, Kyoto Prize
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in 2012, co-founder of Evans and Sutherland
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File:Tom stockham.jpg, Thomas Stockham
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, past Professor of Electrical Engineering from 1968-1975, 1983-1994, father of digital recording, founder of Soundstream
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, won an Emmy Award
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, Grammy Award
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, Academy Award
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, served as a Nixon White House tapes
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investigator
File:Stephen Covey 2010.jpg, Stephen Covey, B.S. 1952, author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
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File:Russell M. Nelson.png, Russell M. Nelson
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, B.A. 1945, M.D. 1947, President
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of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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, past President of the Society for Vascular Surgery
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, past Director of the American Board of Thoracic Surgery The American Board of Thoracic Surgery is an American surgical organization devoted to surgery of the chest.LaVell Edwards
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, M.S. 1960, former head football coach of Brigham Young University
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File:Gordon Gee.jpg, E. Gordon Gee
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, B.A. 1968, past president of universities including Ohio State
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, Vanderbilt, Brown
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and University of Colorado
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File:Martha Raddatz.png, Martha Raddatz
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, non-graduate alumna, ABC News
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Chief Global Affairs Correspondent, recipient of 4 Emmy Awards
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File:Ambassador Jon Huntsman.jpg, Jon Huntsman, Jr.
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, non-graduate alumnus, U.S. Ambassador to China, Russia and Singapore, 16th Governor of Utah
File:Karl Rove.jpg, Karl Rove
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, non-graduate alumnus, Senior Advisor
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and Deputy Chief of Staff in the George W. Bush administration
File:Neeleman.jpg, David Neeleman
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, non-graduate alumnus, founder of JetBlue Airways
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, Azul Brazilian Airlines
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, co-founder of WestJet Airlines
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External links
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The University of Utah Athletics website
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