University of Utah#History

File:University Hall (University of Utah).jpg, the first permanent home of the University of Deseret (later the University of Utah)]]

Soon after the Mormon pioneers arrived in the Salt Lake valley in 1847, Brigham Young began organizing a Board of Regents to establish a university.{{cite web |url=http://historytogo.utah.gov/utah_chapters/pioneers_and_cowboys/thebeginningsoftheuniversityofutah.html |title=The Beginnings of the University of Utah |author=Yvette D. Ison |date=January 1995 |access-date=October 5, 2011 |publisher=State of Utah |archive-date=October 23, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111023133628/http://historytogo.utah.gov/utah_chapters/pioneers_and_cowboys/thebeginningsoftheuniversityofutah.html |url-status=dead }} The university was established on February 28, 1850, as the University of Deseret by the General Assembly of the provisional State of Deseret, and Orson Spencer 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 schools.

Following years of intermittent classes in the Salt Lake City Council House, the university began to be re-established in 1867 under the direction of David O. Calder, 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 onto 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 on the east bench of the Salt Lake Valley, where the university moved permanently in 1900. Additional Fort Douglas land has been granted to the university over the years, and the fort was officially closed on October 26, 1991.{{cite web | title=Brief History of Fort Douglas | url=http://www.fortdouglas.org/fdhist.htm | publisher=Fort Douglas Military Museum Association | access-date=May 15, 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090329045126/http://www.fortdouglas.org/fdhist.htm | archive-date=March 29, 2009 | url-status=dead | df=mdy-all }} Upon his death in 1900, Dr. John R. Park bequeathed his entire fortune to the university.{{cite web | title=University of Utah Sesquicentennial, 1850–2000 | url=http://www.lib.utah.edu/portal/site/marriottlibrary/menuitem.350f2794f84fb3b29cf87354d1e916b9/?vgnextoid=99f582749bbfb110VgnVCM1000001c9e619bRCRD | publisher=J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections | year=2000 | access-date=May 17, 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081116112412/http://www.lib.utah.edu/portal/site/marriottlibrary/menuitem.350f2794f84fb3b29cf87354d1e916b9/?vgnextoid=99f582749bbfb110VgnVCM1000001c9e619bRCRD | archive-date=November 16, 2008 | url-status=dead }}{{cite book | last = Whitney | first = Orson F. | author-link = Orson F. Whitney | title = History of Utah | publisher = George Q. Cannon & Sons Co | date = October 1904 | pages = 356–357 | location = Salt Lake City, Utah | volume = 4 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=C0cOAAAAIAAJ}}

File:MountVanCott.JPG has overlooked the university since 1907.{{cite web | title=The Block U | url=http://www.trademarks.utah.edu/traditions/blockU.html | publisher=University of Utah | access-date=May 15, 2009 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060906033202/http://www.trademarks.utah.edu/traditions/blockU.html | archive-date=September 6, 2006 | df=mdy-all }}|209x209px]]

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The university grew rapidly in the early 20th century but was involved in an academic freedom 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. One third of the faculty resigned in protest of these dismissals. Some{{Who|date=November 2017}} felt that the dismissals were a result of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' influence on the university, while others{{Who|date=November 2017}} 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 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.{{cite book|last=Alexander|first=Thomas G.|author-link=Thomas G. Alexander|title=Mormonism in Transition|publisher=University of Illinois Press|location=Urbana, Illinois|year=1996|pages=174–177}}

During the 2002 Winter Olympics, the university hosted the Olympic Village,{{cite web | title=Olympic Village | url=http://www.deseretnews.com/oly/view/0,3949,30000076,00.html | work=2002 Salt Lake Winter Olympic Games | publisher=Deseret News and KSL | access-date=May 15, 2009 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080720044931/http://www.deseretnews.com/oly/view/0,3949,30000076,00.html | archive-date=July 20, 2008 | df=mdy-all }} a housing complex for the Olympic and Paralympic athletes, as well as the opening and closing ceremonies.{{cite web | title=Rice–Eccles Olympic Stadium | url=http://www.deseretnews.com/oly/view/0,3949,30000075,00.html | work=2002 Salt Lake Winter Olympic Games | publisher=Deseret News and KSL | access-date=May 15, 2009 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080725005228/http://deseretnews.com/oly/view/0,3949,30000075,00.html | archive-date=July 25, 2008 | df=mdy-all }} 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,{{cite web | title=UTA TRAX Light Rail | url=http://www.utahrails.net/uta/uta-trax.php | publisher=Don Strack | access-date=May 15, 2009 | archive-date=May 6, 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090506002013/http://utahrails.net/uta/uta-trax.php | url-status=dead }} a new student center known as the Heritage Center, an array of new student housing,{{cite news |last=Roche |first=Lisa R. |title=The Olympic Village: World's elite athletes to have rooms with a view, pizza with goat cheese |work=2002 Salt Lake Winter Olympic Games |publisher=Deseret News and KSL |date=January 10, 2002 |url=http://www.deseretnews.com/oly/view/0,3949,60000013,00.html |access-date=May 14, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111026191143/http://www.deseretnews.com/oly/view/0,3949,60000013,00.html |archive-date=October 26, 2011 |url-status=dead }} and what is now a 180-room campus hotel and conference center.{{cite web|url=http://www.universityguesthouse.com/|title=University of Utah Guest House Hotel and Conference Center|publisher=University of Utah|access-date=October 9, 2013}}

The University of Utah Asia Campus opened as an international branch campus in the Incheon Global Campus in Songdo, Incheon, South Korea in 2014. Three other European and American universities are also participating.{{cite news|author1=Park Hye-Mi|title=IFEZ on way to being the top free economic zone|url=http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/Article.aspx?aid=3018604|access-date=June 26, 2016|work=Korea JoongAng Daily|agency=JoongAng Media Network|publisher=JoongAng Ilbo|date=May 12, 2016}} The Asia Campus was funded by the South Korean government.{{cite news|last1=Wells|first1=David|title=Enrollment opens for U of U campus in South Korea|url=http://fox13now.com/2014/02/24/enrollment-opens-for-u-of-u-campus-in-south-korea/|access-date=June 26, 2016|work=Fox 13 Salt Lake City|agency=KSTU, Tribune Broadcasting|publisher=WordPress.com|date=February 24, 2014}}{{cite news|last1=Whitehurst|first1=Lindsay|title=University of Utah to open Korean campus in September|url=http://archive.sltrib.com/story.php?ref=/sltrib/news/57597090-78/campus-korean-university-students.html.csp|access-date=June 26, 2016|work=The Salt Lake Tribune|date=February 26, 2014}}

In 2015, the university helped open the Ensign College of Public Health in Kpong, Ghana.{{cite web |last1=Wilets |first1=Kathy |title=New college of public health opens in Ghana |url=https://healthcare.utah.edu/publicaffairs/news/2015/03/03-13-2015_newcollege_Ghana.php |website=healthcare.utah.edu |access-date=November 12, 2019 |date=March 13, 2015 |archive-date=November 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191112214527/https://healthcare.utah.edu/publicaffairs/news/2015/03/03-13-2015_newcollege_Ghana.php |url-status=dead }}

In 2019, the university was named a member of the Association of American Universities.{{cite web|url=https://www.aau.edu/newsroom/press-releases/three-leading-research-universities-join-association-american-universities|title=Three Leading Research Universities Join the Association of American Universities|publisher=Association of American Universities|date=November 6, 2019}}

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The campus covers {{convert|1534|acre|km2|abbr=on}}, including the Health Sciences complex, Research Park, and Fort Douglas.{{cite web | title=Inventory | url=http://infact.utah.edu/?page_id=32 | work=In Fact | publisher=University of Utah | access-date=May 16, 2009 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090307093021/http://infact.utah.edu/?page_id=32 | archive-date=March 7, 2009 | df=mdy-all }} It is located on the east bench of the Salt Lake Valley, close to the Wasatch Range and approximately 2 miles east of downtown Salt Lake City.

Most courses take place on the west side of campus, known as lower campus due to its lower elevation. Presidents Circle 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 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.{{cite web | title=Campus Life at the U | url=http://infact.utah.edu/?page_id=34 | work=In Fact | publisher=University of Utah | access-date=May 16, 2009 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090307093310/http://infact.utah.edu/?page_id=34 | archive-date=March 7, 2009 | df=mdy-all }}

File:Kingsbury Hall.jpg at the Presidents Circle is a center for the performing arts.]]

Lower campus is also home to most public venues, such as the Rice-Eccles Stadium, the Jon M. Huntsman Center, and the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, a museum with rotating exhibitions and a permanent collection of American, European, African, and Asian art. Venues for performing arts include Kingsbury Hall, used for touring companies and concerts, Pioneer Memorial Theatre, used by the professional Pioneer Theatre Company, David P. Gardner Hall, used by the School of Music and for musical performances, and the Marriott Center for Dance. Red Butte Garden, 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.{{cite web | title=Cultural Venues | url=http://infact.utah.edu/?page_id=77 | work=In Fact | publisher=University of Utah | access-date=May 16, 2009 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090307093032/http://infact.utah.edu/?page_id=77 | archive-date=March 7, 2009 | df=mdy-all }}

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The health sciences complex, at the northeast end of campus, includes the University of Utah Medical Center, Primary Children's Medical Center,{{cite web | title=Primary Children's Medical Center Hospital History | url=http://intermountainhealthcare.org/hospitals/primarychildrens/about/history/Pages/home.aspx | publisher=Intermountain Healthcare | access-date=May 16, 2009 | archive-date=August 5, 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090805053517/http://intermountainhealthcare.org/hospitals/primarychildrens/about/history/Pages/home.aspx | url-status=dead }} the Huntsman Cancer Institute, the Moran Eye Center, and the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library.{{cite web | title=Health Facilities | url=http://infact.utah.edu/?page_id=67 | work=In Fact | publisher=University of Utah | access-date=May 16, 2009 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090307084031/http://infact.utah.edu/?page_id=67 | archive-date=March 7, 2009 | df=mdy-all }} South of the health sciences complex, several university residence halls and apartments are clustered together near Fort Douglas and the Heritage Center, which serves as a student center and cafeteria for this area.{{cite web | title=Printable Student Housing Map | url=http://www.housing.utah.edu/pubs/UUStudentHousingMap.pdf | publisher=University of Utah Housing & Residential Education | access-date=May 19, 2009 | archive-date=January 17, 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090117235152/http://www.housing.utah.edu/pubs/UUStudentHousingMap.pdf | url-status=dead }} In addition, there are 1,115 university apartments for students, staff, and faculty across three apartment complexes on campus.{{cite web | title=Campus Housing | url=http://infact.utah.edu/?page_id=47 | work=In Fact | publisher=University of Utah | access-date=May 16, 2009 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090307093319/http://infact.utah.edu/?page_id=47 | archive-date=March 7, 2009 | df=mdy-all }} At the southeast end of campus is Research Park, which is home to research companies including ARUP Laboratories, Evans & Sutherland,{{cite web | title=Research | url=http://infact.utah.edu/?page_id=69 | work=In Fact | publisher=University of Utah | access-date=May 16, 2009 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090307093339/http://infact.utah.edu/?page_id=69 | archive-date=March 7, 2009 | df=mdy-all }} Sarcos, Biofire Diagnostics, and Myriad Genetics.

Courses are also held at off-campus centers located in St. George and Sandy.{{cite web|url=http://continue.utah.edu/sites/index.php|title=Continuing Education Locations|publisher=University of Utah Continuing Education|access-date=May 27, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090218122318/http://continue.utah.edu/sites/index.php|archive-date=February 18, 2009}}

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."{{Cite news|url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865687235/Newly-dubbed-tobacco-free-U-will-begin-enforcing-violations-next-summer.html|title=Newly dubbed 'tobacco-free' U. will begin enforcing violations next summer|last=Lockhart|first=Ben|date=August 21, 2017|work=DeseretNews.com|access-date=August 24, 2017|language=en|archive-date=August 25, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170825002223/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865687235/Newly-dubbed-tobacco-free-U-will-begin-enforcing-violations-next-summer.html|url-status=dead}}

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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.{{cite web|url=http://housing.utah.edu/options/undergraduate/honors-community/|title=Donna Garff Marriott Honors Residential Scholars Community|access-date=December 30, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130126132907/http://housing.utah.edu/options/undergraduate/honors-community/|archive-date=January 26, 2013}} 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.{{Cite news|url=http://lassonde.utah.edu/studios/|title=Lassonde Studios {{!}} Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute {{!}} University of Utah|date=October 28, 2013|newspaper=Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute {{!}} University of Utah|access-date=October 31, 2016}} Kahlert Village, completed in August 2020, houses 990 first-year students.{{Cite web|title=Kahlert Village – Coming Fall 2020 {{!}} Housing & Residential Education|url=https://housing.utah.edu/housing-map-content/uofu-kahlert-village/|access-date=August 14, 2020|website=housing.utah.edu|language=en-US|archive-date=August 9, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809113511/https://housing.utah.edu/housing-map-content/uofu-kahlert-village/|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|title=Kahlert Village {{!}} @theU|url=https://attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff/the-new-kahlert-village-on-campus/|access-date=August 14, 2020|website=attheu.utah.edu|language=en-US}}

File:UTA TRAX - From SLC to Sandy on South Temple street - February 2011.jpg services the university and other parts of Salt Lake City.]]

A number of campus shuttles, running on biodiesel and used vegetable oil, circle the campus on six different routes.{{cite web | title=Shuttle Routes and Schedules | url=http://www.parking.utah.edu/shuttles/index.html | publisher=University of Utah Commuter Services | access-date=May 16, 2009 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509174544/http://www.parking.utah.edu/shuttles/index.html | archive-date=May 9, 2008 | df=mdy-all }} The Utah Transit Authority (UTA) runs several buses through the university area as well as the TRAX Red Line (light rail), which runs to South Jordan. Riders can travel downtown, to FrontRunner (commuter rail), to West Valley, to the Salt Lake City International Airport, or to Draper by transferring to the TRAX Green or Blue lines. Students and staff can use their university IDs to ride UTA buses, TRAX, and FrontRunner.{{cite web|title=UTA and U |url=http://www.parking.utah.edu/UTA/index.html |publisher=University of Utah Commuter Services |access-date=May 16, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070703211046/http://www.parking.utah.edu/UTA/index.html |archive-date=July 3, 2007 }}

In 2012, the university unveiled a new plan for a more conducive campus for bicyclists called the "Bicycle Master Plan" which aims to transform the campus into a safer and more accessible place for cycling and to promote 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.{{cite web|url=http://unews.utah.edu/news_releases/new-campus-master-plan-being-developed/|title=University of Utah News Center – New Campus Master Plan Being Developed|access-date=April 30, 2012|archive-date=June 29, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120629195825/http://unews.utah.edu/news_releases/new-campus-master-plan-being-developed/|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://facilities.utah.edu/campus-planning/master-plan/bicycle.php|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130112154933/http://facilities.utah.edu/campus-planning/master-plan/bicycle.php|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 12, 2013|title=University of Utah Facilities Management- Bicycle Master Plan|access-date=February 17, 2015}}{{cite web|url=http://facilities.utah.edu/static-content/facilitiesmanagement/files/pdf/UniversityOfUtah-BicycleMasterPlan.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120629165439/http://facilities.utah.edu/static-content/facilitiesmanagement/files/pdf/UniversityOfUtah-BicycleMasterPlan.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 29, 2012|title=University of Utah Bicycle Master Plan (18.45 MB)|year=2011|publisher=University of Utah|pages=201|access-date=April 30, 2012}}

Sustainability efforts include a permanent sustainability office, a campus cogeneration plant, building upgrades and energy efficient building standards, behavior modification programs, purchasing local produce for campus dining, a farmers market, and student groups, as well as a branch of the Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective.{{cite web|url=http://www.greenreportcard.org/report-card-2009/schools/university-of-utah|title=University of Utah – Green Report Card 2009|publisher=Sustainability Endowments Institute|access-date=June 27, 2009|archive-date=August 2, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090802150008/http://www.greenreportcard.org/report-card-2009/schools/university-of-utah|url-status=dead}} Sustainability and transportation are also a large part of the university's campus master plan.{{cite web|url=http://www.facilities.utah.edu/static-content/facilitiesmanagement/files/pdf/2008_UofU_CMP_B_Executive_Summary.pdf|title=Executive Summary (23 MB)|work=Campus Master Plan|year=2008|publisher=University of Utah|pages=X|access-date=June 27, 2009|archive-date=June 9, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100609195343/http://www.facilities.utah.edu/static-content/facilitiesmanagement/files/pdf/2008_UofU_CMP_B_Executive_Summary.pdf|url-status=dead}} The Sustainable Endowments Institute gave the university a "B+" in its College Sustainability Report Card 2011, with A's for climate change and energy, food and recycling, student involvement, and transportation.{{cite web|url=http://www.greenreportcard.org/report-card-2011/schools/university-of-utah|title=University of Utah – Green Report Card 2011|publisher=Sustainability Endowments Institute|access-date=July 16, 2011|archive-date=October 16, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111016184519/http://www.greenreportcard.org/report-card-2011/schools/university-of-utah|url-status=dead}}

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. There are programs in place for paper, cardboard, aluminum, batteries, glass, printer cartridges, wooden pallets and plastics #1 and #2.{{cite web|url=http://facilities.utah.edu/facilities-services/u-recycling/|title=Facilities Management – Recycling at the U|access-date=May 1, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120629165125/http://facilities.utah.edu/facilities-services/u-recycling/|archive-date=June 29, 2012}}{{cite web|last1=Andrews|first1=Emerson|title=Recycle Glass on Campus|url=https://sustainability.utah.edu/recycle-glass-on-campus/|website=U Sustainability|date=January 11, 2017 |publisher=University of Utah Office of Sustainability|access-date=May 14, 2017}}

The university is ranked 8th by the EPA for annual green power usage among universities, with 49% of its power coming from geothermal and solar sources.{{Cite web|last=US EPA|first=OAR|date=January 24, 2020|title=Green Power Partnership Top 30 College & University|url=https://www.epa.gov/greenpower/green-power-partnership-top-30-college-university-1|access-date=August 14, 2020|website=US EPA|language=en}}

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.{{Cite web|title=Campus Solar {{!}} Sustainability|url=https://sustainability.utah.edu/progress/focus-areas/energy-buildings/campus-solar/|access-date=August 14, 2020|website=sustainability.utah.edu|language=en-US|archive-date=June 11, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190611135328/https://sustainability.utah.edu/progress/focus-areas/energy-buildings/campus-solar/|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|title=SUSTAINABLE PROJECTS {{!}} @theU|url=https://attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff/sustainable-projects/|access-date=August 14, 2020|website=attheu.utah.edu|language=en-US}}

On November 1, 2019, the university entered into a renewable energy partnership with Rocky Mountain Power 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%.{{Cite web|title=EPA ranks U No. 8 for green power use among universities {{!}} Sustainability|url=https://sustainability.utah.edu/5291-2/|access-date=August 14, 2020|website=sustainability.utah.edu|date=February 12, 2020 |language=en-US}}

The University of Utah is governed by a 10-member Board of Trustees, 8 of whom are appointed by the Governor of Utah with the consent of the Utah Senate. 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 members serve for the terms of their respective offices.{{cite web|title=Board of Trustees Bylaws|url=https://admin.utah.edu/board-of-trustees/board-of-trustees-bylaws/|publisher=University of Utah|access-date=March 16, 2017}}

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){{cite news |last1=Cortez |first1=Marjorie |title=Herbert announces inaugural Utah Board of Higher Education |url=https://www.deseret.com/utah/2020/5/18/21262877/herbert-announces-inaugural-utah-board-of-higher-education |access-date=April 10, 2021 |work=Deseret News |date=May 18, 2020}} whose chief executive officer is the Commissioner of Higher Education.{{cite web |title=Utah System of Higher Education |url=https://academic-affairs.utah.edu/faculty-handbook/utah-system-of-higher-education/ |website=utah.edu |publisher=The University of Utah |access-date=April 10, 2021}}

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.{{cite web |title=Delegation of Responsibilities to the President and Board of Trustees |url=https://ushe.edu/ushe-policies/policyr220/ |website=ushe.edu |publisher=Utah System of Higher Education |access-date=April 10, 2021}}{{cite web |title=Checklist of Presidents' and Trustees' Responsibilities |url=https://ushe.edu/ushe-policies/r220checklist/ |website=ushe.edu |publisher=Utah System of Higher Education |access-date=April 10, 2021}}

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, two elected deans, and 18 students from the ASUU, one from each college and the ASUU president. The senate also includes the university president, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Senior Vice President for Health Sciences, and all non-elected deans as ex officio members who may debate and present motions but do not vote. Much of the actual senate work is carried out by 12 senate-elected committees 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.{{cite web|title=Academic Senate Overview|url=https://academic-senate.utah.edu/academic-senate-overview/|publisher=University of Utah|access-date=March 16, 2017}}

{{Infobox US university ranking

| Forbes_NU = 94

| USNWR_NU = 115 (tie)

| Wamo_NU = 53

| WSJ_NU = 43

| ARWU_W = 101-150

| QS_W = 531 (tie)

| THE_W = 201–250

| USNWR_W = 150 (tie)

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The University of Utah is accredited through the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities since 1933.{{cite web|title=University of Utah Accreditation|url=http://accreditation.utah.edu/|publisher=University of Utah|access-date=March 16, 2017}} The university organizes its 150 academic departments and programs into 17 colleges and schools.{{cite web|title=Colleges, Departments & Programs|url=https://www.utah.edu/academics/colleges.php|publisher=University of Utah|access-date=March 16, 2017}} The School for Cultural and Social Transformation is the university's newest college, with its first graduating class in 2018.{{Cite web|url=https://transform.utah.edu/about/|title=About – School for Cultural and Social Transformation|language=en-US|access-date=April 25, 2020|archive-date=July 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200712221917/https://transform.utah.edu/about/|url-status=dead}}

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• College of Architecture and Planning
• David Eccles School of Business
• School for Cultural and Social Transformation
• School of Dentistry
• College of Education
• John and Marcia Price College of Engineering
• College of Fine Arts
• College of Health
• University of Utah Honors College
• College of Humanities
• S.J. Quinney College of Law
• College of Mines and Earth Sciences
• College of Nursing
• College of Pharmacy
• College of Science
• College of Social and Behavioral Science
• College of Social Work

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The university operates on a semester calendar with the rest of the Utah higher education system.{{cite web | title=Academic Calendars | url=http://www.sa.utah.edu/regist/calendar/datesDeadlines/deadlines.htm | publisher=University of Utah Office of the Registrar | access-date=May 18, 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090318055422/http://www.sa.utah.edu/regist/calendar/datesDeadlines/deadlines.htm | archive-date=March 18, 2009 | url-status=dead | df=mdy-all }} 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.{{cite web | title=Cost | url=http://admissions.utah.edu/cost/ | publisher=University of Utah Office of Admissions | access-date=April 5, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150409113852/http://admissions.utah.edu/cost/ | archive-date=April 9, 2015 | url-status=dead }}

For the Class of 2023 (enrolling fall 2019), Utah received 24,404 applications and accepted 15,159 (62%), with 4,249 enrolling.{{cite web|url=https://www.obia.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/cdsC_2019.pdf#page=1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200115115436/https://www.obia.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/cdsC_2019.pdf#page=1|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 15, 2020|title=University of Utah Common Data Set 2019-2020|publisher=University of Utah}} The middle 50% range of SAT 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) 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".{{Cite web|url=http://admissions.utah.edu/apply/undergraduate/admission-standards.php|title=Freshman Admission Standards - Office of Admissions - The University of Utah|website=admissions.utah.edu|access-date=October 31, 2016}}

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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.{{cite web|title=Dance Schools Offering Ballet and Ballroom Programs|url=http://dance-colleges.com/ballet-and-ballroom|website=Dance Colleges|access-date=April 26, 2017|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170512075812/http://dance-colleges.com/ballet-and-ballroom|archive-date=May 12, 2017|url-status=dead}} The Department was founded by William F. Christensen in 1951, who also founded the San Francisco Ballet and Ballet West companies.{{cite web|title=University of Utah|url=http://www.theudancer.com/universities/university-of-utah|website=The UDancer|access-date=April 26, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170427104956/http://www.theudancer.com/universities/university-of-utah|archive-date=April 27, 2017|url-status=dead}}

The university has made unique contributions to the study of genetics due in part to long-term genealogy efforts of the LDS Church, 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.{{cite web | last = Sussingham | first = Robin |author2=Stephanie Watson |author3=Jennifer Logan | year = 2006 | url = http://gslc.genetics.utah.edu/features/utah/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070219145225/http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/features/utah/index.cfm | archive-date=February 19, 2007 | title = Utah: A Gold Mine for Genetic Research | publisher = University of Utah | access-date =March 9, 2006}} The university is home to the Genetic Science Learning Center, a resource which educates the public about genetics through its website.{{cite web | title=Learn.Genetics | url=http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/ | publisher=Genetic Science Learning Center | access-date=May 18, 2009}}

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The University of Utah was one of the original four nodes of ARPANET, the world's first packet-switched network and embryo of the current worldwide Internet.{{cite web | last=Leiner | first=Barry M. | author2=Robert E. Kahn | author3=Jon Postel | title=A Brief History of the Internet | url=http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml | publisher=Internet Society | access-date=May 18, 2009 | archive-date=December 22, 2001 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011222202333/http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml | url-status=dead }} The School of Computing produced many of the early pioneers in computer science and graphics, including Turing Award winner Alan Kay, Pixar founder Ed Catmull, Atari founder Nolan Bushnell, and Adobe founder John Warnock.{{cite book|last1=Rivlin|first1=Robert|title=The Algorithmic Image: Graphic Visions of the Computer Age|date=1986|publisher=Harper & Row Publishers, Inc.|isbn=978-0914845805|url=http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=27124}} Notable innovations of computer science faculty and alumni include the first method for representing surface textures in graphical images, the Gouraud shading model, magnetic ink printing technology, the Johnson counter logic circuit, the oldest algebraic mathematics package still in use (REDUCE), the Phong reflection model, the Phong shading method, and the rendering equation.{{cite web |title=History of the School of Computing |url=http://www.cs.utah.edu/dept/history/ |publisher=University of Utah School of Computing |access-date=May 19, 2009}} Through the movement of Utah graduates and faculty, research at the University spread outward to laboratories like Xerox Parc, JPL, and the New York Institute of Technology.{{cite book|last1=Misa|first1=Thomas J.|title=Communities of Computing: Computer Science and Society in the ACM|date=2016|publisher=Association for Computing Machinery and Morgan & Claypool|isbn=9781970001877|url=http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2973856|access-date=April 27, 2017}} Present graphics research is focused on biomedical applications for visualization, scientific computing, and image analysis at the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute.{{cite book|last1=Shneiderman|first1=Ben|title=The New ABCs of Research: Achieving Breakthrough Collaborations|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-875883-9|pages=320|year=2016}}

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.{{cite web|url=http://www.dailyutahchronicle.com/?p=2569777|title=The Daily Utah Chronicle – College of Dentistry Starts in Fall of 2013|access-date=May 1, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120427230151/https://www.dailyutahchronicle.com/?p=2569777|archive-date=April 27, 2012}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.dailyutahchronicle.com/?p=2570672|title=The Daily Utah Chronicle – Dental School Receives Approval|access-date=May 1, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120428042226/https://www.dailyutahchronicle.com/?p=2570672|archive-date=April 28, 2012|url-status=dead}}

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The S.J. Quinney College of Law, founded in 1913,{{cite web|title=Law School Profile |url=http://www.law.utah.edu/prospective/profile/ |publisher=S.J. Quinney College of Law |access-date=May 18, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090312032804/http://www.law.utah.edu/prospective/profile/ |archive-date=March 12, 2009 }} was the only law school in Utah until the 1970s. The law school was ranked the #28 best law school in the country in the 2024 U.S. News "Best Law Schools" rankings.{{Cite web |title=2024 U.S. News Best Law Schools |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/law-rankings}}

The University of Utah (University of Utah Hospital) has the only accredited allopathic medical school in the State of Utah. The medical school has made several notable contributions to medicine, such as establishing the first Cerebrovascular Disease Unit west of the Mississippi River in 1970 and administering the world's first permanent artificial heart, the Jarvik-7, to Barney Clark in 1982.{{cite web | title=University Health Care Milestones | url=http://healthcare.utah.edu/about/milestones.htm | publisher=University of Utah Health Care | access-date=May 18, 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081226064522/http://healthcare.utah.edu/about/milestones.htm | archive-date=December 26, 2008 | url-status=dead | df=mdy-all }}

The University of Utah College of Pharmacy is ranked 15th in the nation for NIH research grants as of 2023,{{cite web | title=2023 Year in Review | date=December 21, 2023 | url=https://uofuhealth.utah.edu/notes/2023/12/year-in-review | publisher=University of Utah Health| access-date=February 13, 2024}} and its PharmD program is ranked 14th in the nation.{{cite web | title=Best Pharmacy Schools | date=2020 | url=https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-health-schools/pharmacy-rankings | publisher=US News and World Report| access-date=February 13, 2024}} 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.{{cite web | title=Information | url=http://pharmacy.utah.edu/pharmtox/ADD/info.html | publisher=ADD Program | access-date=February 13, 2024 | archive-date=July 12, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160712180022/http://pharmacy.utah.edu/pharmtox/ADD/info.html | url-status=dead }}

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,[http://poli-sci.utah.edu/maxwell-lecture-series.php Maxwell Lecture Series]. University of Utah and is home to the Hinckley Institute of Politics, which places more than 350 students every year in local, state, national, and global internships.{{cite web|url=http://www.hinckley.utah.edu/internships/|title=Opportunities for all students|website=Internships|publisher=The University of Utah|access-date=December 15, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222103710/http://www.hinckley.utah.edu/internships/|archive-date=December 22, 2015|url-status=dead}}

The university's Turkish Studies Program, funded by Turkish Coalition of America and headed by M. Hakan Yavuz, has been criticized for promoting Armenian genocide denial.{{cite news |title=Former U Student Calls Out U Professor For Denial of Armenian Genocide |url=https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2020/10/31/calls-for-u-political-science-professor-to-be-fired-after-denial-of-armenian-genocide/ |access-date=December 13, 2020 |work=The Daily Utah Chronicle |date=October 31, 2020}}{{cite journal |last1=Hovannisian |first1=Richard G. |author1-link=Richard G. Hovannisian |title=Denial of the Armenian Genocide 100 Years Later: The New Practitioners and Their Trade |journal=Genocide Studies International |date=2015 |volume=9 |issue=2 |pages=228–247 |doi=10.3138/gsi.9.2.04|s2cid=155132689 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/690 }}{{cite journal |last1=Mamigonian |first1=Marc A. |title=Academic Denial of the Armenian Genocide in American Scholarship: Denialism as Manufactured Controversy |journal=Genocide Studies International |date=2015 |volume=9 |issue=1 |pages=61–82 |doi=10.3138/gsi.9.1.04|s2cid=154623321 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/690 }} Nevertheless, the university had established itself as a "denialist beachhead" prior to the creation of the Turkish Studies Program. The University of Utah Press has published several books denying the Armenian genocide, beginning with Guenter Lewy's The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey.{{Cite book |last=Suny |first=Ronald Grigor |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oXGYDwAAQBAJ |title="They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide |date=2017 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-17596-6 |pages=375 |language=en}}{{Cite journal |last=Hovannisian |first=Richard G. |date=December 1, 2015 |title=Denial of the Armenian Genocide 100 Years Later: The New Practitioners and Their Trade |url=https://utpjournals.press/doi/10.3138/gsi.9.2.04 |journal=Genocide Studies International |volume=9 |issue=2 |pages=228–247 |doi=10.3138/gsi.9.2.04 |s2cid=155132689 |issn=2291-1847}} The book's publication by the University of Utah Press was arranged by Yavuz himself.{{Cite journal |last=Mamigonian |first=Marc A. |date=March 1, 2015 |title=Academic Denial of the Armenian Genocide in American Scholarship: Denialism as Manufactured Controversy |url=https://utpjournals.press/doi/10.3138/gsi.9.1.04 |journal=Genocide Studies International |volume=9 |issue=1 |pages=61–82 |doi=10.3138/gsi.9.1.04 |s2cid=154623321 |issn=2291-1847}}

Professor Keith David Watenpaugh 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."{{cite news |date=June 7, 2013 |title=The Case Against Legitimizing Genocide Deniers: Scholars Speak Up |work=The Armenian Weekly |url=https://armenianweekly.com/2013/06/07/the-case-against-legitimizing-genocide-deniers-scholars-speak-up/ |access-date=December 13, 2020}} In 2020, regarding "a student complaint and messages of concern from the Armenian community about 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 and the University of Utah (as a state entity), recognize the historical events of 1915 as the Armenian genocide".{{Cite web |title=Statement regarding student complaint |url=https://attheu.utah.edu/university-statements/statement-regarding-student-complaint/ |access-date=November 12, 2022 |website=University of Utah Communications |language=en-US}}

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The university has nine men's and 11 women's varsity teams.{{cite web | title=Athletics | url=http://infact.utah.edu/?page_id=81 | work=In Fact | publisher=University of Utah | access-date=May 30, 2009 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090307084035/http://infact.utah.edu/?page_id=81 | archive-date=March 7, 2009 | df=mdy-all }} 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.{{cite web | title=Utah Official Athletic Site | url=http://utahutes.cstv.com/ | publisher=University of Utah | access-date=May 15, 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090414011903/http://utahutes.cstv.com/ | archive-date=April 14, 2009 | url-status=dead }} The school's sports teams are called the Utes, though some teams have an additional nickname, such as "Runnin' Utes" for the men's basketball team.{{cite web | title=Men's Basketball Media Guide | url=http://utahutes.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/0809-media-guide.html | work=Utah Official Athletic Site | publisher=University of Utah | access-date=May 15, 2009 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090310185436/http://utahutes.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/0809-media-guide.html | archive-date=March 10, 2009 | df=mdy-all }} The university participates in the NCAA's Division I (FBS for football) as part of the Big 12 Conference.{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/college-sports/news/story?id=5298238|title=Utah excited by Pac-10 acceptance|publisher=ESPN|access-date=June 17, 2010|date=June 17, 2010}}. There is a fierce BYU–Utah rivalry, and the Utah–BYU football game, traditionally the season finale, has been called the "Holy War" by national broadcasting commentators.{{cite news |first=Graham |last=Watson |title=Cougars-Utes spice things up – off the field |url=https://www.espn.com/college-football/news/story?page=rivalryweek/holywar |publisher=ESPN |date=November 20, 2008 |access-date=May 15, 2009}} The university fight song is "Utah Man", commonly played at athletic games and other university events.{{cite web | title=Ute Traditions | url=http://utahutes.cstv.com/trads/ute-trads-what.html | work=Utah Official Athletic Site | publisher=University of Utah | access-date=May 14, 2009 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090314052155/http://utahutes.cstv.com/trads/ute-trads-what.html | archive-date=March 14, 2009 | df=mdy-all }} 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 known for the use of his tail feathers in Ute headdresses, and which is said to reflect "the soaring spirit of our state and school".{{cite web | title=Utah Mascot | url=http://www.trademarks.utah.edu/traditions/mascot.html | work=Utah Official Athletic Site | publisher=University of Utah | access-date=November 10, 2010 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100609170035/http://www.trademarks.utah.edu/traditions/mascot.html | archive-date=June 9, 2010 | df=mdy-all }}

In 2002, the university was one of 20 schools to make the U.S. News & World Report College Sports Honor Roll.{{cite news |first=Gordon |last=Witkin |author2=Jodi Schneider |title=College Sports: Why they're not just about winning and losing anymore. A look at some of the best—and worst—programs. |url=https://www.usnews.com/usnews/culture/articles/020318/archive_020363.htm |work=U.S. News & World Report |date=March 10, 2002 |access-date=May 16, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050507164916/http://www.usnews.com/usnews/culture/articles/020318/archive_020363.htm |archive-date=May 7, 2005 }} In 2005, Utah became the first school to produce No. 1 overall draft picks in both the NFL draft and NBA draft for the same year.{{cite web|last=Sorensen|first=Mike|url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,600144977,00.html|archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20111026191158/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/600144977/Its-official-Boguts-a-Buck.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 26, 2011|title=It's official: Bogut's a Buck|date=June 29, 2005|work=Deseret Morning News|access-date=May 28, 2009}} Alex Smith was picked first overall by the San Francisco 49ers in the 2005 NFL draft,{{cite web | title=NFL Draft History Full Draft | url=http://www.nfl.com/draft/history/fulldraft?season=2005 | publisher=National Football League | access-date=May 15, 2009 | archive-date=January 6, 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090106234852/http://www.nfl.com/draft/history/fulldraft?season=2005 | url-status=dead }} and Andrew Bogut was picked first overall by the Milwaukee Bucks in the 2005 NBA draft.{{cite web | title=Draft 2005 | url=http://www.nba.com/draft2005/index.html | publisher=National Basketball Association | access-date=May 15, 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090430092241/http://www.nba.com/draft2005/index.html | archive-date=April 30, 2009 | url-status=dead }} The university has won fifteen NCAA Skiing Championships, most recently in 2023,{{cite web |url=https://www.ncaa.com/live-updates/skiing/nc/utah-wins-2023-ncaa-skiing-championship#:~:text=Utah%20won%20the%20NCAA%20skiing,the%202023%20NC%20skiing%20championships. |title=Utah wins 2023 NC skiing championship |publisher=National Collegiate Athletic Association |access-date=March 11, 2023}} as well as the 1977 AIAW National Women's Skiing Championship.{{cite web | title=Utah Athletics History | url=http://utahutes.cstv.com/trads/ute-trads-success.html | work=Utah Official Athletic Site | publisher=University of Utah | access-date=May 16, 2009 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090323072332/http://utahutes.cstv.com/trads/ute-trads-success.html | archive-date=March 23, 2009 | df=mdy-all }}

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The men's basketball team won the NCAA title in 1944{{cite web | title=Division I Men's Basketball History | url=https://www.ncaa.com/history/m-basketball-d1.html | publisher=National Collegiate Athletic Association | access-date=May 15, 2009}} and the NIT crown in 1947.{{cite web|title=Postseason NIT History (1940s) |url=http://www.nit.org/history/nit-postseason-results-1940s.html |publisher=National Invitation Tournament |access-date=May 15, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090422060815/http://www.nit.org/history/nit-postseason-results-1940s.html |archive-date=April 22, 2009 }} Arnie Ferrin, 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 win NBA Championships in 1949 and 1951.{{cite press release |title=Arnie Ferrin To Be Honored During Utah-TCU Game Saturday |url=http://utahutes.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/030209aab.html |publisher=University of Utah |date=March 2, 2009 |access-date=May 15, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111026191154/http://utahutes.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/030209aab.html |archive-date=October 26, 2011 |url-status=dead }} Wat Misaka, the first person of Asian descent to play in the NBA, also played for Utah during this era.{{cite news |url=http://www.sltrib.com/ci_10420139 |first=Jennifer W. |last=Sanchez |title=Utahn broke ethnic wall in NBA |work=The Salt Lake Tribune |date=September 9, 2008 |access-date=October 9, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130821125403/http://www.sltrib.com/ci_10420139 |archive-date=August 21, 2013 |url-status=dead }}

Utah basketball rose again to national prominence when head coach Rick Majerus took his team, including guard Andre Miller, combo forward Hanno Möttölä, and post player Michael Doleac, to the NCAA Final Four in 1998. After eliminating North Carolina to advance to the final round, Utah lost the championship game to Kentucky, 78–69.{{cite news |first=Jack |last=Curry |author-link=Jack Curry |title=1998 NCAA Tournament: Kentucky Turns Comeback Into Its 2nd Title in 3 Years |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/31/sports/1998-ncaa-tournament-kentucky-turns-comeback-into-its-2d-title-in-3-years.html |work=The New York Times |date=March 31, 1998 |access-date=May 15, 2009}}

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In 2004–2005, the football team, coached by Urban Meyer and quarterbacked by Alex Smith, along with defensive great Eric Weddle, went 11–0 during the regular season and defeated Pittsburgh 35–7 in the 2005 Fiesta Bowl, becoming the first team from a conference without an automatic Bowl Championship Series (BCS) bid to go to a BCS bowl game.{{cite news |first=Brad |last=Rock |title=Utes a perfect 12–0: U. pounds Pitt after crashing BCS party |url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,600102009,00.html |work=Deseret Morning News |date=January 2, 2005 |access-date=May 15, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090107211825/http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,600102009,00.html |archive-date=January 7, 2009 |url-status=dead }} The team ended its perfect 12–0 season ranked 4th in AP polling.{{cite web | title=NCAA College Football Polls | url=https://www.espn.com/college-football/rankings?seasonYear=2004 | publisher=ESPN | access-date=May 15, 2009}}

2008–2009 was another undefeated year for the football team, coached by Kyle Whittingham, as they finished the season 13–0 and defeated Alabama 31–17 in the 2009 Sugar Bowl. 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).{{cite news |first=Dirk |last=Facer |title=Utah Utes football: Storybook season: How did the Utes get from 0–0 to 13–0? Let us remind you |url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,705277808,00.html |work=Deseret News |date=January 16, 2009 |access-date=May 15, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090523004740/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,705277808,00.html |archive-date=May 23, 2009 |url-status=dead }}

The Utah Utes moved to the Pac-12 Conference for the start of the 2011–2012 football season. They were in the South Division with University of Colorado, University of Arizona, Arizona State University, UCLA and University of Southern California. Their first game in the Pac-12 was at USC on September 10, 2011, and resulted in a 23–14 Utah loss.

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The women's gymnastics team, coached by Tom Farden (Head Coach) and Carly Dockendorf (Associate Head Coach),{{Cite web|title = Official Women's Gymnastics Roster - The Official Athletic Site of the University of Utah|url = http://www.utahutes.com/sports/w-gym/mtt/utah-w-gym-mtt.html|website = www.utahutes.com|access-date = December 29, 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160101195906/http://www.utahutes.com/sports/w-gym/mtt/utah-w-gym-mtt.html|archive-date = January 1, 2016|url-status = dead}} has won ten national championships, including the 1981 AIAW championship, and placed 2nd nationally eight times. As of 2013, it has qualified for the NCAA championship 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.{{cite web | title=Utah Gymnastics Media Guide | url=http://utahutes.cstv.com/sports/w-gym/spec-rel/utah-2010-media-guide.html | work=Utah Official Athletic Site | publisher=University of Utah | access-date=April 7, 2010 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100420012104/http://utahutes.cstv.com/sports/w-gym/spec-rel/utah-2010-media-guide.html | archive-date=April 20, 2010 | url-status=dead | df=mdy-all }}{{cite web|url=http://utahutes.cstv.com/sports/w-gym/recaps/032710aaa.html|title=Gymnasts Make NCAA Attendance History|date=March 26, 2010|work=Utah Official Athletic Site|publisher=University of Utah|access-date=April 8, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100404183721/http://utahutes.cstv.com/sports/w-gym/recaps/032710aaa.html|archive-date=April 4, 2010|url-status=dead}}

The university marching band, known as the "Pride of Utah",{{cite web | title=Marching Band | url=http://uofubands.music.utah.edu/Marching%20Band/MarchingBandLanding.html | publisher=University of Utah | access-date=May 15, 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090627065853/http://uofubands.music.utah.edu/Marching%20Band/MarchingBandLanding.html | archive-date=June 27, 2009 | url-status=dead }} perform at all home football games, as well as some away games and bowl games. They performed at the 2005 Fiesta Bowl, the 2009 Sugar Bowl, and the Inaugural Parade of President Barack Obama.

The band began as a military band in the 1940s. In 1948, university president A. Ray Olpin recruited Ron Gregory from Ohio State University 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.{{cite news|title=Once again, U. band will strut for football fans |newspaper=Deseret News |date=September 25, 1976 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=336&dat=19760925&id=ckMOAAAAIBAJ&pg=6668,6647367 |access-date=May 14, 2009 }}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} As of 2011, the band was under the direction of Dr. Brian Sproul.{{cite web | title=Brian Sproul | url=http://www.music.utah.edu/faculty/faculty_a-z/brian_sproul | publisher=University of Utah School of Music | access-date=May 15, 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090417193905/http://www.music.utah.edu/faculty/faculty_a-z/brian_sproul | archive-date=April 17, 2009 | url-status=dead | df=mdy-all }}

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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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.obia.utah.edu/ia/cds/2015-2016/CDS_2015-2016.pdf|title=Common Data Set 2015-2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161012151939/http://www.obia.utah.edu/ia/cds/2015-2016/CDS_2015-2016.pdf|archive-date=October 12, 2016|url-status=dead}} The university is located in a large metropolitan area. 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.facilities.utah.edu/static-content/facilitiesmanagement/files/pdf/2008_UofU_CMP_5_Plan_Elements.pdf|title=Plan Elements (50 MB)|year=2008|work=Campus Master Plan|publisher=University of Utah|access-date=May 22, 2009|archive-date=June 10, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100610094127/http://www.facilities.utah.edu/static-content/facilitiesmanagement/files/pdf/2008_UofU_CMP_5_Plan_Elements.pdf|url-status=dead}}

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.{{cite web|url=http://www.asuu.utah.edu/govt |archive-url=https://archive.today/20090309210426/http://www.asuu.utah.edu/govt |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 9, 2009 |title=ASUU: Government |publisher=Associated Students of the University of Utah |access-date=May 22, 2009 }} ASUU holds primary and general elections each year for student representatives, typically with 10–15% of the student population voting.{{cite news|url=http://www.dailyutahchronicle.com/news/candidates-fight-low-voter-turnout-1.1598515|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170215033558/http://dailyutahchronicle.com/news/candidates-fight-low-voter-turnout-1.1598515|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 15, 2017|title=Candidates fight low voter turnout|last=Thompson|first=Jeremy|date=March 5, 2009|work=The Daily Utah Chronicle|publisher=University of Utah|access-date=March 22, 2009}}

Because of the large number of LDS Church members at the university, there is an LDS Institute of Religion building near main campus, as well as several LDS student groups and 46 campus wards.{{cite web|url=http://www.ldsces.org/iws1/index.aspx?p=60611|title=Institute of Religion – University of Utah|publisher=The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|access-date=May 27, 2009}} Approximately 650 students are part of 6 sororities and 8 fraternities at the university, most of which have chapter houses on "Greek Row" just off campus.{{cite web|url=http://www.greeks.utah.edu/pageview.aspx?id=7730 |title=Welcome to Greek Row |publisher=University of Utah Greek Council |access-date=May 22, 2009 }}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}{{cite web|url=http://www.greeks.utah.edu/|title=Greek Council – Office of Student Involvement|publisher=University of Utah|access-date=April 10, 2013|archive-date=January 26, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130126143100/http://greeks.utah.edu/|url-status=dead}}

The University of Utah has a dry campus, meaning that alcohol is banned on campus.{{cite web|url=http://www.facilities.utah.edu/portal/site/facilities/menuitem.f3f7b0b1f50f8fe6d0f3d010c1e916b9/?vgnextoid=2021762b3055d110VgnVCM1000001c9e619bRCRD|title=Alcohol and Drug Policies|publisher=University of Utah Department of Public Safety|access-date=May 22, 2009|archive-date=June 9, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100609173028/http://www.facilities.utah.edu/portal/site/facilities/menuitem.f3f7b0b1f50f8fe6d0f3d010c1e916b9/?vgnextoid=2021762b3055d110VgnVCM1000001c9e619bRCRD|url-status=dead}} In 2004, Utah became the first state with a law expressly permitting concealed weapons on public university campuses.{{cite news|agency=Associated Press|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna18355953|title=Utah only state to allow guns at college|date=April 28, 2007|work=NBC News|access-date=May 22, 2009}} The University of Utah tried to uphold its gun ban but the Utah Supreme Court rejected the ban in 2006.{{cite news|url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/LegalCenter/story?id=2469016&page=1|title=University of Utah Can't Ban Firearms on Campus |last=Croft|first=Gregory T.|date=September 20, 2006|work=ABC News|access-date=May 22, 2009}}

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The university has several public broadcasting affiliations, many of which utilize the Eccles Broadcast Center. These stations include PBS Utah (formerly branded as KUED channel 7), a PBS member station{{cite web | title=PBS Station Finder | url=https://www.pbs.org/stationfinder/index.html?station=KUED | publisher=Public Broadcasting Service | access-date=May 15, 2009}} and producer of local documentaries; KUEN channel 9, an educational station for teachers and students from the Utah Education Network; KUER 90.1 FM, a public radio affiliate of National Public Radio, American Public Media, and Public Radio International;{{cite web|title=About KUER 90.1 |url=http://www.kuer.org/insidefm90/home.php |publisher=KUER |access-date=May 15, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090425050640/http://www.kuer.org/insidefm90/home.php |archive-date=April 25, 2009 }} and K-UTE 1620.

NewsBreak is the student-run television newscast on campus.{{cite web | title = NewsBreak | publisher = University of Utah | url = http://www.newsbreak.utah.edu/ | access-date = December 14, 2011 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111129194250/http://www.newsbreak.utah.edu/ | archive-date = November 29, 2011 | df = mdy-all }} During 2011, the program celebrated its 40th anniversary.{{cite web | title = History of NewsBreak | publisher = University of Utah | url = http://www.newsbreak.utah.edu/?p=2034 | access-date = December 14, 2011 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120213205032/http://www.newsbreak.utah.edu/?p=2034 | archive-date = February 13, 2012 | df = mdy-all }} Broadcasts air every Thursday night at 10 pm during the fall and spring semesters on KUEN.

The Daily Utah Chronicle, also referred to as the Chrony,{{cite press release |title=Broadsheet, NY Times Crossword Puzzle and SI On Campus Part of New Daily Utah Chronicle Offering |url=http://www.unews.utah.edu/p/?r=031306-13 |publisher=University of Utah |date=August 20, 2003 |access-date=May 15, 2009 |archive-date=December 7, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071207224025/http://unews.utah.edu/p/?r=031306-13 |url-status=dead }} has been the university's independent, student-run paper since 1890.{{cite web | title = The Daily Utah Chronicle | publisher = University of Utah | url = http://www.dailyutahchronicle.com/ | access-date =May 15, 2009}} It publishes daily on school days during fall and spring semesters and weekly during summer semester.{{cite web | title = Production Schedules | publisher = University Media Sales Group | url = http://www.umsg.utah.edu/schedule.html | access-date =May 15, 2009}} The paper typically runs between eight and twelve pages, with longer editions for weekend game guides. The paper converted to a broadsheet format in 2003 when the Newspaper Agency Corporation began printing it. The Society of Professional Journalists selected the newspaper as one of three finalists for best all-around daily student newspaper in the nation in both 2007 and 2008.{{cite press release |title=SPJ Announces 2007 Mark of Excellence Award National Winners |url=http://www.spj.org/news.asp?REF=800 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130417001924/http://www.spj.org/news.asp?REF=800 |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 17, 2013 |publisher=Society of Professional Journalists |date=May 19, 2008 |access-date=January 14, 2009 }}{{cite press release |title=SPJ Announces 2008 Mark of Excellence Award National Winners |url=http://www.spj.org/news.asp?REF=891 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130113161650/http://www.spj.org/news.asp?REF=891 |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 13, 2013 |publisher=Society of Professional Journalists |date=May 13, 2009 |access-date=January 14, 2009 }} 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 earned him the Don Baker Investigative Reporting Award from the Utah Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.{{cite news|url=http://www.sltrib.com/ci_12584921|title=SPJ recognizes the best Utah journalism of 2008|date=June 13, 2009|work=The Salt Lake Tribune|access-date=March 16, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604130236/http://www.sltrib.com/ci_12584921|archive-date=June 4, 2011|url-status=dead}}

The University of Utah Press, the oldest press in Utah and now part of the J. Willard Marriott Library, publishes books on topics including the outdoors, anthropology and archaeology, linguistics, creative nonfiction, Mesoamerica, Native American studies, and Utah, Mormon, and Western history.{{cite web | title=Media | url=http://infact.utah.edu/?page_id=79 | work=In Fact | publisher=University of Utah | access-date=May 16, 2009 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090307093349/http://infact.utah.edu/?page_id=79 | archive-date=March 7, 2009 | df=mdy-all }}{{cite web|title=Subject Categories |url=http://www.uofupress.com/store/subjects.php |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120914092907/http://www.uofupress.com/store/subjects.php |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 14, 2012 |publisher=University of Utah Press |access-date=May 16, 2009 }} The Wallace Stegner Prize in American Environmental or Western History is presented annually by the press.{{cite news |last1=Maffly |first1=Brian |title=Monograph on Canyon Country roads wins Stegner literary prize |url=https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=54918684&itype=CMSID |access-date=April 12, 2021 |work=The Salt Lake Tribune |date=September 19, 2012}} Its Utah Series in Middle East Studies has been criticized for "specializing" in "methodologically flawed accounts" of the Armenian genocide that seek to reject the term genocide as being applicable to the event, and includes works by Guenter Lewy, Justin McCarthy, and Yücel Güçlü.Dr Andrekos Varnava, review of Armenians and the Allies in Cilicia, 1914–1923, (review no. 1419) [http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/1419] The university is also home to a national literary journal, Quarterly West.{{cite news|title=Small Magazine, Big Names: 'Quarterly West' Turns 20|last=Griggs|first=Brandon|date=December 15, 1996|work=The Salt Lake Tribune}}

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Notable alumni include politicians Rocky Anderson, Bob Bennett, Marsha K. Caddle, Merrill Cook, E. Jake Garn, Jon Huntsman, Jr., Karen Morgan, Frank E. Moss, Joshua Rush, and Karl Rove;{{cite news|url=http://archive.deseretnews.com/archive/952840/Triumph-of-the-underdog.html|title=Triumph of the underdog|last=Davidson|first=Lee|date=December 8, 2002|work=Deseret News|access-date=May 26, 2009}}{{dead link|date=November 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} recent LDS Church presidents Gordon B. Hinckley,{{cite web|publisher=The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|url=http://newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/background-information/leader-biographies/president-gordon-b-hinckley|title=President Gordon B. Hinckley|work=Leader Biographies|access-date=May 26, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090429193744/http://newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/background-information/leader-biographies/president-gordon-b-hinckley|archive-date=April 29, 2009}} Thomas S. Monson,{{cite web|publisher=The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|url=https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/background-information/leader-biographies/president-thomas-s-monson|title=President Thomas S. Monson|work=Leader Biographies|access-date=May 26, 2009}} and Russell M. Nelson;{{cite web|publisher=The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|url=https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/background-information/leader-biographies/elder-russell-m-nelson|title=Elder Russell M. Nelson|work=Leader Biographies|access-date=May 26, 2009}} historian and Pulitzer Prize for History laureate Laurel Thatcher Ulrich;{{cite web|url=http://unews.utah.edu/news_releases/university-of-utah-celebrates-distinguished-and-honorary-alumni-at-2013-founders-day-banquet-2|title=University of Utah Celebrates Distinguished and Honorary Alumni at 2013 Founders Day Banquet|publisher=University of Utah|access-date=January 16, 2014|archive-date=January 16, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116210922/http://unews.utah.edu/news_releases/university-of-utah-celebrates-distinguished-and-honorary-alumni-at-2013-founders-day-banquet-2/|url-status=dead}} journalist and 2017 Pulitzer Prize winner for local reporting Rachel Piper{{Cite web |last=McDermott |first=Mackenzie |date=April 17, 2017 |title=Former Chronicle Editor Wins Pulitzer Prize for Sexual Assault Coverage |url=https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2017/04/17/former-chronicle-editor-won-pulitzer-prize-sexual-assault-coverage/ |access-date=November 4, 2023 |website= |language=en}} authors Orson Scott Card,{{cite web|url=http://www.hatrack.com/osc/about-more.shtml|title=About Orson Scott Card|publisher=Hatrack River Enterprises Inc.|access-date=May 26, 2009}} Stephen Covey, Shannon Hale, Terry Tempest Williams, and Wallace Stegner; R Adams Cowley, William DeVries, and Robert Jarvik in medicine; historian Richard Foltz; educators Gordon Gee,{{cite book|last=Rule|first=Ann|title=The stranger beside me|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company|location=New York|year=2000|edition=Updated 20th anniversary|isbn=978-0-393-05029-5|page=118}} Jonathan Westover,{{Cite web|title=Jonathan H. Westover, Ph.D, Official Member of Forbes Councils|url=https://profiles.forbes.com/members/coaches/profile/Jonathan-H-Westover-Ph-D-Associate-Professor-Department-Chair-Organizational-Leadership-Academic-Director-Center-for-Social-Impact-OD-HR-Consultant-Utah-Valley-University-Human-Capital-Innovations-LLC/607fd25d-2687-4bf8-b811-df504cb556b2|website=Forbes Councils|access-date=May 30, 2020}} and Ann Weaver Hart;{{cite web|url=http://president.arizona.edu/biography|title=Biography of Ann Weaver Hart|publisher=University of Arizona|access-date=February 3, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116122337/http://president.arizona.edu/biography|archive-date=January 16, 2014|url-status=dead}} reporter Martha Raddatz;{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/11/AR2007111101713.html|title=Martha Raddatz, Putting Herself in the Thick of Things|author=Howard Kurtz|newspaper=The Washington Post |date=November 12, 2007|access-date=January 15, 2014}} writer and canoeist Neal Moore,{{cite news |last1=Goddard |first1=Jacqui |title=Modern-day Huckleberry Finn paddles 7,500 miles across America |url=https://www.thetimes.com/world/us-world/article/modern-huck-finn-paddles-7-500-miles-across-america-wz2nrtrsd |work=The Times |date=December 21, 2021}} and speed reading innovator Evelyn Nielsen Wood.{{cite web|url=http://heritage.utah.gov/apps/history/findaids/B00272/B0272.xml|title=The Evelyn Nielsen Wood Papers, ca. 1925–1979|publisher=University of Utah}}

Notable science and engineering alumni include Jim Blinn; Mark W. Fuller, CEO of WET Design; Andrea Russell, Vice President of the International Society of Electrochemistry; Jim Clark, founder of Silicon Graphics, Netscape Communications Corporation, myCFO, and Healtheon; Gretchen W. McClain, former NASA Deputy Associate Administrator of Human Space Exploration and Chief Director of the International Space Station; Henri Gouraud; John C. Cook who played a crucial role in establishing the field of ground-penetrating radar;{{cite web|url=http://www.gale.cengage.com/servlet/BrowseSeriesServlet?region=9&imprint=000&cf=es&titleCode=AMWSE&edition=|title=American Men and Women of Science|publisher=Gale Cengage Learning|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120112230130/http://www.gale.cengage.com/servlet/BrowseSeriesServlet?region=9&imprint=000&cf=es&titleCode=AMWSE&edition=|archive-date=January 12, 2012}} Ralph Hartley;{{cite web|url=http://www.ieee.org/web/aboutus/history_center/biography/hartley.html|title=Ralph V. L. Hartley, 1888–1970|publisher=Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers|access-date=May 26, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080409150024/http://www.ieee.org/web/aboutus/history_center/biography/hartley.html|archive-date=April 9, 2008|url-status=dead}} rocket scientist Joseph Majdalani;{{cite web|url=http://majdalani.eng.auburn.edu/Team/bio_moorhem.html|title=Professor William K. Van Moorhem|website=majdalani.eng.auburn.edu}} Alan Kay; Simon Ramo; and John Warnock, co-founder of Adobe Systems.

Notable entrepreneur and business leader alumni include Alan Ashton, co-founder of WordPerfect and Thanksgiving Point; Freestyle Skiër Tom Wallisch; Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese; Ed Catmull, co-founder of Pixar; J. Willard Marriott, founder of Marriott International; Robert A. "Bob" McDonald, CEO of Procter & Gamble;{{cite web|url=http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=983031&ric=PG|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090822205920/http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=983031&ric=PG|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 22, 2009|title=Executive Profile: Robert A. McDonald|work=BusinessWeek|access-date=June 11, 2009}} David Neeleman, founder of JetBlue; Telle Whitney, CEO and President of the Anita Borg Institute;{{cite web|url=http://www.cs.utah.edu/school/history/|title=Major contributions by Utah faculty and alumni|publisher=University of Utah School of Computing|access-date=May 26, 2009}} and Nintendo of America's current president, Doug Bowser{{cite web | url=https://humanities.utah.edu/news/doug-bowser.php | title=President of Nintendo America to Address Humanities Students at 2022 Convocation - College of Humanities - the University of Utah }}

In athletics, notable alumni include baseball player Chris Shelton; basketball players Andrew Bogut, Kyle Kuzma, Andre Miller, and Keith Van Horn; football players Paul Kruger, Star Lotulelei, Jamal Anderson, Kevin Dyson, Eric Weddle, Alex Smith, and Steve Smith Sr.; hall of fame karate grandmaster Dan Hausel; and football coach LaVell Edwards.{{cite web|url=http://utahutes.cstv.com/trads/ute-trads-alum.html|title=Famous University of Utah Alumni|work=Utah Official Athletic Site|publisher=University of Utah|access-date=May 26, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090618191842/http://utahutes.cstv.com/trads/ute-trads-alum.html|archive-date=June 18, 2009}} Notable members of the athletics faculty include Sharrieff Shah, coach of the University of Utah football team and husband to Jen Shah, cast member of the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City.{{Cite web|title=Sharrieff Shah - Football Coach|url=https://utahutes.com/sports/football/roster/coaches/sharrieff-shah/2308|access-date=November 29, 2021|website=University of Utah Athletics|language=en}} Mykayla Skinner was a 2020 Olympic gymnast and vault silver medalist.

Notable alumni also includes serial killer Ted Bundy, who briefly attended the College of Law before dropping out.{{cite web |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/famous-law-school-dropouts-2012-10 |title=Ted Bundy and 9 Other Famous People Who Couldn't Handle Law School |last=Tzatzev |first=Aleksi |date=October 12, 2012 |website=Business Insider |access-date=October 1, 2019}}

Drag queen Denali Foxx graduated from the University of Utah.

Lee Isaac Chung, director of the Academy Award-winning film Minari, completed his graduate studies at the university's film-making program.

Notable faculty in science and engineering include David Evans and Ivan Sutherland, founders of Evans and Sutherland; Bui Tuong Phong, pioneer of computer graphics; Henry Eyring, known for studying chemical reaction rates;{{cite web|url=http://www.nap.edu/readingroom.php?book=biomems&page=heyring.html|title=Henry Eyring, February 20, 1901 – December 26, 1981|last=Kauzmann|first=Walter|author-link=Walter Kauzmann|publisher=National Academies Press|access-date=May 26, 2009}} Scott A. Summers, founder of Centaurus Therapeutics; Stephen Jacobsen, founder of Sarcos;{{cite web|url=http://www.mech.utah.edu/people/faculty/jacobsen.html|title=Stephen Jacobsen – Distinguished Professor|publisher=University of Utah Department of Mechanical Engineering|access-date=May 26, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090418050303/http://www.mech.utah.edu/people/faculty/jacobsen.html|archive-date=April 18, 2009}} Jindřich Kopeček and Sung Wan Kim, pioneers of polymeric drug delivery and gene delivery;{{cite web|url=http://www.nae.edu/Activities/MediaRoom/20095/42133.aspx|title=NAE Elects 68 Members and Nine Foreign Associates|access-date=October 14, 2014}} Suhas Patil, founder of Cirrus Logic; Stanley Pons, who claimed to have discovered "cold fusion" in 1989;{{cite news|title=Brilliance and Recklessness Seen in Fusion Collaboration|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/09/science/brilliance-and-recklessness-seen-in-fusion-collaboration.html|last=Broad|first=William J.|date=May 9, 1989|work=The New York Times|access-date=May 26, 2009}} Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, later co-winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry;{{cite news|url=http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_13530930|title=Ramakrishnan: Nobel-winning work started in Utah|last=Maffly|first=Brian|date=October 11, 2009|work=The Salt Lake Tribune|access-date=November 19, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604211136/http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_13530930|archive-date=June 4, 2011|url-status=dead}} Thomas Stockham, founder of Soundstream; 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, the co-winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine;{{cite web | title=The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007 | url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2007/index.html | publisher=Nobel Foundation | access-date=October 8, 2007}} Willem Johan Kolff;{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/4604625/Willem-Kolff.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/4604625/Willem-Kolff.html |archive-date=January 11, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Willem Kolff|date=March 20, 2009|work=The New York Times|access-date=May 26, 2009|location=London}}{{cbignore}} and Russell M. Nelson. Biologist Ralph Vary Chamberlin, founding dean of the Medical School, professor, and later historian of the University, was also an alumnus.

File:MarioCapecchiFotoThalerTamas.JPG|Mario Capecchi, Distinguished Professor of Human Genetics and Biology, co-winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

File:VES Awards 89 cropped.jpg|Ed Catmull, B.S. 1969, Ph.D. 1974, co-founder of Pixar, president of Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios

File:John Warnock 2008.jpg|John Warnock, B.S. 1961, M.S. 1964, Ph.D. 1969, co-founder of Adobe Systems Inc.

File:James H. Clark.jpg|James H. Clark, Ph.D. 1974, founder of Netscape, Silicon Graphics, myCFO, Healtheon, co-author of the Catmull-Clark algorithm

File:Nolan Bushnell 2013.jpg|Nolan Bushnell, B.S. 1968, founder of Chuck E. Cheese's, co-founder of Atari

File:J Willard Marriott.jpg|J. Willard Marriott, A.B. 1926, founder of Marriott International

File:Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (32803708014).jpg|Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, B.A. 1960, received the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1991.

File:Jake Garn.jpg|Jake Garn, B.S. 1955, U.S. senator and Space Shuttle astronaut

File:Alan Kay (3097597186) (cropped).jpg|Alan Kay, M.S. 1968, Ph.D. 1969, father of Object-Oriented Programming, 2003 Turing Award and 2004 Kyoto Prize winner

File:William DeVries (cropped).jpg|William DeVries, 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, former CEO of Procter & Gamble, 8th United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs

File:Hartley ralph-vinton-lyon-001.jpg|Ralph Hartley, A.B. 1909, inventor of the Hartley oscillator and the Hartley transform, recipient of the IEEE Medal of Honor

File:Ivan Sutherland at CHM.jpg|Ivan Sutherland, past Professor of Computer Science 1968–1974, winner of the Turing Award in 1988, Kyoto Prize in 2012, co-founder of Evans and Sutherland

File:Gordon Gee.jpg|E. Gordon Gee, B.A. 1968, past president of universities including Ohio State, Vanderbilt, Brown and University of Colorado

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