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University of Utah
Established: February 28, 1850
Type: Public university
Endowment: $509,095,000[1]
President: Michael K. Young
Staff: 13,760
Undergraduates: 22,661
Postgraduates: 6,531
Location: Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Campus: Urban
Team Name: Utes
Colors: Crimson & White          
Mascot: Swoop
Website: www.utah.edu
The "U" on the foothills above the University of Utah campus.
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The University of Utah (referred to locally as 'The U' or 'the U of U'), located in Salt Lake City, is the flagship public research university in the state of Utah, and one of ten institutions that make up the Utah System of Higher Education. Salt Lake City is the Capital and the most populous city of the U A university is an institution of Higher education and Research, which grants Academic degrees in a variety of subjects The State of Utah (ˈjuːtɔː or) is a western state of the United States. The Utah State Board of Regents was formed in 1969 as a governing body for the Utah System of Higher Education. As of Fall Semester 2007, the university currently enrolls 21,421 undergraduate and 6,604 graduate students and has 1,419 regular faculty members. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. In some Educational systems undergraduate education is Post-secondary education up to the level of a Bachelor's degree. See also Postgraduate Training in Education Postgraduate education (synonymous in North America with graduate education, and sometimes described A faculty is a division within a University. The concept of a university with different faculties for different subjects dates back to Al-Azhar University, which had

Of the more than 3,500 colleges and universities in the United States, the University of Utah is one of only eighty-eight that are classified by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as Research I universities; i. Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Education, founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1905 and Chartered in 1906 by an Act of Congress, is a Research I university was a category previously used by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education to indicate those universities that engaged e. , those which offer a full range of undergraduate programs, are committed to graduate education, and give research high priority. The university's athletic rival is its neighbor to the south, Brigham Young University.

Note: "University of Utah" is not "Utah State University". Utah State University ( USU) is a public Land-grant university whose main campus is located in Logan Utah. These universities are sometimes identified with misunderstanding in foreign countries and languages, because some people do not know that there are many independent state universities in the same state. Moreover, these names are almost same in some foreign languages.

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Campus history

Originally established February 28, 1850 by Latter-day Saint leader Brigham Young, it was initially named "University of Deseret. Events 202 BC - coronation ceremony of Liu Bang as Emperor Gaozu of Han takes place initiating four centuries of the Han Dynasty 's rule For the game see 1850 (board game. 1850 ( MDCCCL) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link TalkMormon#Latter Day Saint vs Latter-day Saint --> Mormon Brigham Young (June 1 1801 &ndash August 29 1877 was an American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement. The University of Utah (referred to locally as ' The U' or ' the U of U') is a publicly funded Research university in Salt Lake " The school closed two years later for financial reasons. It reopened as a commercial school in 1867 in the old Council House in what is now downtown Salt Lake City under the direction of David O. Year 1867 ( MDCCCLXVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Calder, a prominent Salt Lake City businessman and associate of Mormon leader Brigham Young. TalkMormon#Latter Day Saint vs Latter-day Saint --> Mormon Brigham Young (June 1 1801 &ndash August 29 1877 was an American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement. The University was renamed University of Utah in 1894 and classes were first held on the present campus approximately two miles directly east of downtown Salt Lake City in 1900. Year 1894 ( MDCCCXCIV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1900 ( MCM) was an exceptional Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar

Portions of the present campus are located on grounds formerly belonging to the U. S. Army's Fort Douglas. Camp Douglas was established in 1862 as a small military garrison about three miles east of Salt Lake City, Utah, for the purpose of protecting the overland mail The fort was officially closed on October 26, 1991, and although a small part of it remains as an Army Reserve Post, the majority of its territory is now owned by the university, and occupied by student residences. Events 740 - An Earthquake strikes Constantinople, causing much damage and death Year 1991 ( MCMXCI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar. The United States Army Reserve is the federal reserve force of the United States Army.

Programs

The university offers seventy-six undergraduate majors, over fifty-five minors and certificates and ninety-six major fields of studies at the graduate level. It draws its 28,000-plus student population from all fifty states and 111 foreign countries. The university, one of the state’s largest employers, has the only medical, social work, and architecture schools in a multi-state area.

The university's School of Computing has made several important contributions to the field. The University of Utah was one of the original four nodes of ARPANET, the world's first packet-switching computer network and embryo of the current world-wide Internet. The ARPANET ( Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) developed by ARPA of the United States Department of Defense, was the world's first operational Packet switching is a network communications method that splits data traffic (digital representations of text sound or video data into chunks called packets, that are then The Internet is a global system of interconnected Computer networks In late 1969, the U's computer graphics department was linked into the node at Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, CA to complete the initial 4-node network [1]. Year 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Computer graphics are Graphics created by Computers and more generally the Representation and Manipulation of Pictorial Data SRI International, based in the United States is one of the world's largest contract Research institutes. Menlo Park is an affluent City in San Mateo County, in the San Francisco Bay Area of California

The U's Center for High Performance Computing links the U to major aerospace industries, high-tech manufacturers and research companies. The Department of Computer Science is ranked in the top twenty computer science research departments in the nation. The U was named one of five finalists in the science category of the 1998 Computerworld Smithsonian Awards.

The Park Building, on President's Circle, is the center of university administration
The Park Building, on President's Circle, is the center of university administration
Kingsbury Hall is a major venue for the performing arts
Kingsbury Hall is a major venue for the performing arts
The University of Utah central campus.
The University of Utah central campus.

Other accomplishments include the first method for representing surface textures in graphical images, the Gouraud smooth shading model for computer graphics, invention of magnetic ink printing technology, the Johnson counter logic circuit, development of the oldest algebraic mathematics package (REDUCE) still in use, and the Phong lighting model for shading with highlights. Gouraud shading, named after Henri Gouraud, is a method used in Computer graphics to simulate the differing effects of light and colour across the surface of Computer graphics are Graphics created by Computers and more generally the Representation and Manipulation of Pictorial Data A logic gate performs a logical operation on one or more logic inputs and produces a single logic output REDUCE is a general-purpose Computer algebra system geared towardsapplications in physics Phong shading refers to a set of techniques in 3D computer graphics. The school has pioneered work in asynchronous circuits, computer animation, computer art, digital music recording (for which university alumni were awarded Academy Awards), graphical user interfaces, and stack machine architectures. Notable alumni include Henri Gouraud, James Blinn, Nolan Bushnell, Ed Catmull, Jim Clark, Alan Kay, Shane Robison and John Warnock. Henri Gouraud (born 1944 is a French Computer scientist. He is the Inventor of Gouraud shading used in Computer graphics. James F Blinn is a computer scientist who first became widely known for his work as a computer graphics expert at NASA 's Nolan K Bushnell (born February 5, 1943) is an American electrical Engineer and Entrepreneur who founded both Atari Inc Edwin Catmull, PhD (born 1945 in Parkersburg, West Virginia) is an Academy Award winning Computer scientist and current president of Walt Dr James H Clark (born 1944 is a prolific Entrepreneur and former computer scientist Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940) is an American Computer scientist, known for his early pioneering work on Object-oriented programming John Warnock (b October 6, 1940) is an American Computer scientist best known as the co-founder with Charles Geschke of Adobe Systems Companies founded by faculty and alumni include Adobe Systems, Ashlar, Atari, CAE Systems, Centillium Technology, Cirrus Logic, WordPerfect, Evans and Sutherland, Myricom, NeoMagic, Netscape Communications Corporation, Pixar, Pixal Plane, PlanetWeb, and Silicon Graphics. Adobe Systems Incorporated (pronounced a-DOE-bee əˈdoʊbiː ( is an American Computer software company headquartered in San Jose California Ashlar is dressed stone work of any type of stone Ashlar blocks are large rectangular blocks of Masonry sculpted to have square edges and even faces Atari is a corporate and brand name owned by several entities since its inception in 1972. Cirrus Logic ( is a fabless semiconductor supplier specializing in analog mixed-signal and DSP chips WordPerfect is a proprietary Word processing application At the height of its popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s it was the De facto Evans & Sutherland ( is a Computer firm involved in the Computer graphics field NeoMagic Corporation is a Fabless semiconductor company and supplier of low-power audio and video Integrated circuits for mobile use (MagicMedia Netscape Communications (formerly known as Netscape Communications Corporation and commonly known as Netscape) is an American computer services company Pixar Animation Studios is a CGI animation production company based in Emeryville California. Silicon Graphics Inc (commonly initialised to SGI, historically sometimes referred to as Silicon Graphics Computer Systems or SGCS) is a company

The University of Utah Economics department is a leading heterodox department that is committed to social justice and human rights. Notable faculty include Dr. Kenneth Jameson and Dr. E. K Hunt.

The University of Utah's School of Medicine is respected as one of the region's finest, with several notable achievements, and the University of Utah Hospitals & Clinics has consistently had some of its programs ranked by U. S. News & World Report. In 1970, the school established the first Cerebrovascular Disease Unit west of the Mississippi River. Year 1970 ( MCMLXX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Cerebrovascular disease is a group of brain dysfunctions related to disease of blood vessels supplying the brain The Mississippi River is the second longest River in the United States, with a length of from its source in Lake Itasca in Minnesota to In 1982, Barney Clark received the world's first permanently implanted artificial heart, the Jarvik-7, during an operation performed by William C. Year 1982 ( MCMLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar) An artificial heart is a prosthetic device that is implanted into the body to replace the biological Heart. An artificial heart is a prosthetic device that is implanted into the body to replace the biological Heart. Devries, M. D. Clark survived 112 days with the device. The campus houses the Huntsman Cancer Institute, the Moran Eye Center, an ophthalmic clinical care and research facility, and Primary Children's Medical Center, the only children's hospital in Utah. The Huntsman Cancer Institute is a research center in the University of Utah designed to research learn about treat and prevent cancer The Primary Children's Medical Center is a children's hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah. Areas for which the school is often praised include cardiology, geriatrics, gynecology, pediatrics,rheumatology, pulmonology, neurology, oncology, orthopedics, and ophthalmology. Cardiology (from Greek grc καρδίᾱ kardiā, "heart" and grc -λογία -logia) is the branch of Internal medicine Geriatrics is the branch of Medicine that focuses on health care of the elderly Gynaecology or gynecology (see spelling differences) refers to the surgical specialty dealing with health of the female reproductive system ( Uterus Pediatrics (also spelled paediatrics) is the branch of Medicine that deals with the medical care of Infants Children and Adolescents Rheumatology is a sub-specialty in Internal medicine and Pediatrics, devoted to the Diagnosis and therapy of Rheumatic diseases. In Medicine, pulmonology (aka pneumology) is the specialty that deals with Diseases of the Lungs and the Respiratory tract. Oncology is the branch of medicine that studies Tumors ( Cancer) and seeks to understand their development diagnosis treatment and prevention Orthopedic surgery or orthopedics (also spelled orthopaedics) is the branch of Surgery concerned with injuries to or conditions involving the Ophthalmology is the branch of Medicine which deals with the diseases and surgery of the visual pathways including the Eye, Brain

The University of Utah's Political Science department hosts one of nation's leading schools of politics and government. Political science is a branch of Social sciences that deals with the theory and practice of Politics and the description and analysis of Political systems Aside from regular course work, the college provides its students the opportunity to volunteer as interns in state and federal government offices. The college is often visited by local and national leaders. The University of Utah also has the Hinckley Institute of Politics.

The University is well known in the field of biology for its unique contributions to the study of genetics. Foundations of modern biology There are five unifying principles Genetics (from Ancient Greek grc-Latn genetikos, “genitive” and that from grc-Latn genesis, “origin” a discipline of Biology, is This is due in part to long-term genealogy efforts of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints which is headquartered about four miles from the University. Genealogy (from Greek: el γενεά el-Latn genea, "descent" and el λόγος el-Latn logos, "knowledge" is the study of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the fourth largest Christian denomination in the United States and the largest and most well-known Those who keep genealogic records are an asset to researchers who are able to use family records to trace genetic disorders through several generations. Additionally, the relative homogeneity of Utah's population makes it an ideal laboratory for studies of population genetics. [2] The population tends to volunteer for genetic testing in high numbers. The University is home to the Genetic Science Learning Center, a unique resource which educates the public about genetics through its website. In addition, University of Utah faculty member and Nobel Prize laureate Mario Capecchi has made significant contributions to the field by developing a gene knockout technique that functions even in higher organisms. Mario Renato Capecchi (born 6 October 1937) is an Italian -born American molecular Geneticist and a co-winner of the 2007 Nobel

The university is home to the S. J. Quinney School of Law, until the 1970s the only law school in the state. Its alumni and faculty include distinguished scholars and judges. Currently former professor Judge Michael McConnel of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals and Judge Paul Cassell serve on the federal court.

In 1989, the university was the focus of a short-lived but intense controversy in the scientific community when then-chair of chemistry Stanley Pons and visiting professor Martin Fleischmann claimed to have discovered a chemical reaction process known as "cold fusion". Year 1989 ( MCMLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar) Chemistry (from Egyptian kēme (chem meaning "earth") is the Science concerned with the composition structure and properties Stanley Pons (born in 1943 Valdese North Carolina) is an electrochemist best known for his work with Martin Fleischmann on Cold fusion in the 1980s and Martin Fleischmann, FRS (born 1927 Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia) is an electrochemist at the University of Southampton and a Fellow of the Cold fusion, sometimes called low energy nuclear reactions (LENR or condensed matter nuclear science, is a set of effects reported in controversial laboratory experiments Their work has since been discredited by the nuclear physics community. Nuclear physics is the field of Physics that studies the building blocks and interactions of Atomic nuclei.

The College of Architecture and Planning hosts a spring semester course titled Design Build Bluff held at Bluff, Utah. DesignBuildBLUFF is a program of the University of Utah, noted for its award-winning and innovative home designs Bluff is a Census-designated place (CDP in San Juan County, Utah, United States. It is an opportunity for the students to design and build a house for a family on the Navajo Reservation in the Four Corners area of Southwestern United States. The Navajo Nation ( Diné in the Navajo language) is a semi- autonomous Native American homeland covering about 26000 square miles (67339 square The Four Corners is a region of the United States consisting of southwest Colorado, northwest New Mexico, northeast Arizona and southeast The Southwestern area of the United States could be defined as the states west of the Mississippi River, with the qualification of a certain northern limit such as the 37

Olympics

In 2002, the University hosted the Olympic Village as well as Winter Olympic events, including the opening and closing ceremonies. See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIX Olympic Winter Games were a Winter Multi-sport event which was celebrated in 2002 Prior to the events, the University received a facelift that included extensive renovations to Rice-Eccles Stadium, a light rail track leading to downtown Salt Lake City and an array of new student housing and a 134-room campus hotel and conference center (used by the Olympic athletes) at nearby Fort Douglas. Rice-Eccles Stadium is an outdoor football Stadium on the campus of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City Utah. For specific light rail systems many of which use the words "light rail" as part of their name see List of light-rail transit systems. Camp Douglas was established in 1862 as a small military garrison about three miles east of Salt Lake City, Utah, for the purpose of protecting the overland mail

Athletics

Main article: Utah Utes
University of Utah logo
University of Utah logo
Rice-Eccles Stadium
Rice-Eccles Stadium

The school's sports teams are called the Utes. The Utah Utes are the athletics teams of the University of Utah. The Utes (/juːts/ " yoots " are an ethnically related group of American Indians now living primarily in Utah and Colorado. There are many "nicknames" for the teams too, as, for instance, the basketball team known as the "Runnin' Utes"; in former days, the football team was known as "Runnin' Redskins", and the gymnastics team is known as "the Red Rocks". Utah participates in the NCAA's Division I (Division I-A for football) as part of the Mountain West Conference. The National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA, often pronounced "N-C-Double-A" is a voluntary association of about 1200 institutions conferences organizations The Mountain West Conference (or MWC) the youngest of the College athletic conferences affiliated with the NCAA ’s Division I FBS (I-A officially The last football game of the regular season hosts a contest which for one week seems to divide the entire state. This traditional season finale has been called "The Holy War" by national broadcasting commentators and is one of the fierciest, most bitter rivalries in all college football. Unique Characteristics The Utah-BYU rivalry holds a number of unique characteristics that add to its overall greatness

In 2002, U. S. News & World Report named Utah to its Honor Roll of College Sports: one of only twenty schools in the whole nation to receive such mention.

The men's basketball team won the NCAA title in 1944 and the NIT crown in 1947. The National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA, often pronounced "N-C-Double-A" is a voluntary association of about 1200 institutions conferences organizations The 1944 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 8 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division The National Invitation Tournament (NIT is a men's college Basketball tournament operated by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Year 1947 ( MCMXLVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Arnie Ferrin, the only four-time All-American in Utah basketball history, played for both the 1944 and 1947 teams. C Arnold Ferrin Jr (born July 29, 1925 in Salt Lake City Utah) is a retired American Basketball player in college and He also went on to help the Minneapolis Lakers win NBA Championships in 1949 and 1951. The Los Angeles Lakers franchise has a long and storied history predating the formation of the National Basketball Association (NBA Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1951 ( MCMLI) was a Common year starting on Monday. Events of 1951 January Wat Misaka, the first person of Asian descent to play in the NBA, also played for Utah during this era. Wataru "Wat" Misaka ( Japanese: 三阪 亙 Misaka Wataru) (born December 21, 1923 in Ogden, Utah, U

Utah basketball rose again to national prominence under the leadership of head coach Rick Majerus, who with the versatile playing of guard Andre Miller, combo forward Hanno Möttölä and post player Michael Doleac, took Utah to the NCAA Final Four in 1998. Rick Majerus (born February 17 1948 in Sheboygan Wisconsin) is the men's Basketball head coach at Saint Louis University. Andre Lloyd Miller (born March 19 1976 in Los Angeles California) is an American professional Basketball player for the Philadelphia Hanno Möttölä (born September 9, 1976 in Helsinki) is a retired Finnish professional Basketball player at the power forward Michael Scott Doleac (born June 15 1977 in San Antonio, Texas, U The 1998 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 64 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division Then, after eliminating North Carolina to advance to the final round, Utah lost the championship game to Kentucky, 78-69. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ( UNC, North Carolina, or simply Carolina) is a public, Coeducational Research The Kentucky Wildcats are the men's and women's athletic teams representing the University of Kentucky (UK a founding member of the Southeastern Conference

The women's gymnastic team, the Red Rocks, has won the National Gymnastics Championship title 9[3] times, beginning with an AIAW national championship title in 1981, more than any other university. The Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women was founded in 1971 to govern collegiate women's athletics in the United States and to administer national championships In 2006, they finished 2nd. In the years when Utah does not place first, they are almost always #2 or #3. The ten-time national champion Utah gymnastics team has qualified for a record 31st-consecutive national championship. Utah is the only program to qualify for all 25 NCAA Championships. The Utes won the 2006 women's gymnastics attendance title, averaging 12,747 spectators to their six regular season home meets. It marked the second-highest attendance average in Utah and NCAA gymnastics history. Utah has won twenty-two of the last twenty-five gymnastics attendance titles. This is also one of the highest attendance averages for any women's college sport in the nation.

Utah is home to ten crowned NCAA National Skiing Championship teams, 1 AIAW National Women's Skiing Championship team (1978), sixty-four individual NCAA titles, twenty-four Olympic athletes and 294 All-Americans . The Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women was founded in 1971 to govern collegiate women's athletics in the United States and to administer national championships . . a display of one of the most successful skiing programs within the college racing circuit.

In 1981 Utah won the AIAW Division II women's cross country national championship. The Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women was founded in 1971 to govern collegiate women's athletics in the United States and to administer national championships

Of more recent note was the 2004-2005 Utah football team. Coached by Urban Meyer and quarterbacked by Alex Smith, the Utes went 11-0 during the regular season and became the first team from a non-BCS (Bowl Championship Series) league to go to a BCS Bowl Game, finishing the regular season #6 in the BCS rankings. Urban Meyer (born July 10, 1964 in Ashtabula Ohio) is currently the head football coach at the University of Florida. Alexander Douglas Smith (born May 7, 1984 in Bremerton Washington, U The Bowl Championship Series ( BCS) is a selection system designed to give the top two teams in the NCAA FBS Bowl Subdivision System an opportunity to compete in a "national The Utes defeated Pittsburgh 35 - 7 in the Fiesta Bowl on January 1, 2005 and ended its perfect 12-0 season ranked fourth in AP polling. The University of Pittsburgh, commonly referred to as Pitt, is a non-sectarian coeducational independent state-related, "public" research University The Fiesta Bowl, now sponsored by Tostitos tortilla chips is a United States College football Bowl game played annually since 1971 Since the creation of the BCS and the National Championship Game, they are one of a small number of undefeated teams to be denied a chance to play for the title, joining Tulane in 1998 and Marshall in 1999, as well as Auburn and Boise State in 2004-05. Tulane University is a private, Nonsectarian, Coeducational Research university located in New Orleans, Louisiana. Marshall University is a Coeducational public Research university in Huntington West Virginia, founded in 1837 as a private subscription Auburn University ( AU or Auburn) is a State university located in Auburn, Alabama, U Boise State University is a Public university located near downtown Boise, the Capital city of the U

In 2005, Utah became the first school to produce #1 overall draft picks in both the NFL and NBA Drafts for the same year. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The National Football League ( NFL) is the largest professional American football league. The NBA Draft is an annual North American event in which the National Basketball Association 's (NBA thirty teams (29 in the United States and one in Alex Smith was picked first overall by the San Francisco 49ers in April, 2005, followed by Andrew Bogut, who was taken first overall in the 2005 NBA Draft by the Milwaukee Bucks. The San Francisco 49ers are a professional American football team Andrew Michael Bogut (born 28 November 1984 is an Australian professional Basketball player The 2005 NBA Draft took place on June 28, 2005 in the Theatre at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The Milwaukee Bucks are a professional Basketball team based in Milwaukee Wisconsin.

Broadcasting

The University of Utah has several public broadcasting affiliations. They include:

  1. KUED, TV Channel 7 (digital 42), the state's main PBS member station and award-winning producer of local documentaries;
  2. KUER-FM, FM 90. KUED is full-service Television station in Salt Lake City Utah, broadcasting locally in analog on VHF channel 7 and in digital on UHF channel The Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS) is a Non-profit Public broadcasting Television service with 354 member TV stations in the KUER-FM 90 is a publicly broadcast Radio station licensed to the University of Utah in Salt Lake City Utah. See also Frequency modulation, FM band FM broadcasting is a broadcast Technology invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong that 1, an NPR member station.
  3. KUEN, TV Channel 9 (digital 36), a resource for teachers and lifelong learners is operated from the U. KUEN, also known as UEN-TV, is a full-service educational Television station in Ogden Utah, operated by the Utah Education Network on behalf campus by the Utah Education Network, a statewide consortium of public and higher education. The Utah Education Network (UEN is a Not-for-profit Consortium of higher and public education libraries state government and business
  4. K-UTE, Student campus radio, 1620 AM and on cable channel 66 (on campus). K-UTE is a low power AM College radio station broadcasting on 1620 kHz to the campus of the University of Utah and surrounding areas

The Daily Utah Chronicle

The Daily Utah Chronicle is the U's independent, student-run paper, which has published regularly since 1890. It publishes daily on school days during fall and spring semesters, and weekly during summer semester. "The Chrony" typically runs between eight and twelve pages, with longer editions for weekend game-guides. The paper is a broadsheet and usually features full-color printing on the front by arrangement to use Newspaper Agency Corporation printing facilities, a deal brokered by The Salt Lake Tribune and intended to inspire journalism mentoring. The Newspaper Agency Corporation (or NAC) is a Printing, Delivery and Advertising company jointly owned by the Deseret Morning News The Salt Lake Tribune is the largest-circulated daily newspaper in the U Journalism is the profession of writing or communicating formally employed by publications and broadcasters for the benefit of a particular Community of people

The Daily Utah Chronicle was selected as the top student newspaper in its region for 2007 by the Society of Professional Journalists.

Alumni of the Chronicle staff have gone on to work in all forms of media at all levels both regionally and nationally.

Marching band

The University of Utah Marching Band began in the 1940s as a military band that performed for university events and ceremonies. In 1948, University President A. Ray Olpin recruited Ron Gregory from Ohio State University to form a marching band fashioned after the great collegiate bands of the Midwest.

But in the turbulent '60s, support for the band dwindled and in 1969, the Associated Students for the University of Utah (ASUU) discontinued its funding.

The band was revived in 1976 after a fund raising effort under the direction of Gregg I. Hanson. Mr. Hanson served as director of bands with Rick Clary directing the marching band until 1990 when Mr. Hanson accepted the director of bands position at the University of Arizona. The University of Arizona (also referred to as UA, U of A, or Arizona) is a Land-grant and space-grant public institution

In 1991, the University of Utah recruited Dr. Barry Kopetz of the University of Minnesota as the director of bands with his graduate assistant, Scott Hagen, serving as marching band director. The University of Minnesota Twin Cities ( U of M or The U) is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system. Mr. Hagen became the director of bands in 2001, where he currently serves. The marching band is under the direction of Eric Peterson.

The "Pride of Utah" Marching Utes have performed at all home football and basketball games, along with home gymnastics meets. They've also performed at numerous NFL and college bowl games, including the 2004 BCS Tostitos Fiesta Bowl. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " The Bowl Championship Series ( BCS) is a selection system designed to give the top two teams in the NCAA FBS Bowl Subdivision System an opportunity to compete in a "national Tostitos is a brand of Tortilla chips and (more recently dips produced by Frito-Lay and introduced in 1979, with national distribution The Fiesta Bowl, now sponsored by Tostitos tortilla chips is a United States College football Bowl game played annually since 1971

Notable faculty

Main article: List of University of Utah people
  • Maud Babcock - The first female member of the university's faculty
  • Jan Harold Brunvand - Emeritus Professor of English, a well-known American folklorist and urban legends researcher
  • Mario Capecchi - 2007 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
  • Henry Eyring - Renowned theoretical chemist and twenty-year dean of the graduate school
  • Sterling M. Notable Alumni George Albert Smith Harold B Lee Maud May Babcock ( May 2, 1867 – December 31, 1954) was the first female member of the University of Utah 's faculty Jan Harold Brunvand (born 1933 is a Professor emeritus of English at the University of Utah in the United States, best known for spreading the concept An urban legend or urban myth is a form of modern Folklore consisting of stories thought to be factual by those circulating them Mario Renato Capecchi (born 6 October 1937) is an Italian -born American molecular Geneticist and a co-winner of the 2007 Nobel This is a list of Nobel Prize Laureates awarded for their outstanding contributions to Humanitarian causes for Peace, work in Literature Henry Eyring ( February 20, 1901 in – December 26, 1981 in Salt Lake City Utah) was a Mexican -born American McMurrin - former E. E. Erickson Professor of Philosophy and U of Utah administrator, U. S. Commissioner of Education, Mormon philosopher

Notable alumni

Main article: List of University of Utah people

See also

References

  1. ^ 2006 NACUBO Endowment Study (PDF). Notable Alumni George Albert Smith Harold B Lee ARUP Laboratories, an enterprise of the University of Utah and its Department of Pathology is a national clinical and anatomic pathology reference laboratory that offers Virginia Tanner (born April 25, 1915 in Salt Lake City, Utah) began her formal dance training at the University of Utah. National Association of College and University Business Officers.
  2. ^ Sussingham, Robin; Stephanie Watson, Jennifer Logan (2006). Utah: A Gold Mine for Genetic Research. The University of Utah. Retrieved on 2006-03-09. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 590 - Bahram Chobin is crowned as king Barham VI of Persia.
  3. ^ Schools with the Most NCAA Championships

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