The university was established in 1850 as the University of Deseret () by the General Assembly of the provisional State of Deseret, making it Utah's oldest institution of higher education.
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.
The university closed in 1853 due to 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.
The university closed in 1853 due to 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.
The university moved out of the council house into the Union Academy building in 1876 and into Union Square in 1884.
The university moved out of the council house into the Union Academy building in 1876 and into Union Square in 1884.
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, has been the university's independent, student-run paper since 1890.
It received its current name in 1892, four years before Utah attained statehood, and moved to its current location in 1900. As of Fall 2019, there were 24,485 undergraduate students and 8,333 graduate students, for an enrollment total of 32,818, making it the second largest public university in the state after Utah Valley University.
In 1892, the school's name was changed to the University of Utah, and John R.
It received its current name in 1892, four years before Utah attained statehood, and moved to its current location in 1900. As of Fall 2019, there were 24,485 undergraduate students and 8,333 graduate students, for an enrollment total of 32,818, making it the second largest public university in the state after Utah Valley University.
Army's Fort Douglas on the east bench of the Salt Lake Valley, where the university moved permanently in 1900.
Upon his death in 1900, Dr.
Quinney College of Law, founded in 1913, was the only law school in Utah until the 1970s. ====Medicine==== The University of Utah has the only accredited allopathic medical school in the State of Utah.
The university grew rapidly in the early 20th century but was involved in an academic freedom controversy in 1915 when Joseph T.
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.
Football income was $56 million in 2017-2018. ==Academics and rankings== The University of Utah is a public flagship four-year research university accredited through the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities since 1933.
They performed at the 2005 BCS Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, the 2009 BCS Allstate Sugar Bowl, and the Inaugural Parade of President Barack Obama. The band began as a military band in the 1940s.
The university has won thirteen NCAA Skiing Championships, most recently in 2019, as well as the 1977 AIAW National Women's Skiing Championship. ===Men's basketball=== The men's basketball team won the NCAA title in 1944 and the NIT crown in 1947.
Arnie Ferrin, the only four-time All-American in Utah basketball history, played for both the 1944 and 1947 teams.
The university has won thirteen NCAA Skiing Championships, most recently in 2019, as well as the 1977 AIAW National Women's Skiing Championship. ===Men's basketball=== The men's basketball team won the NCAA title in 1944 and the NIT crown in 1947.
Arnie Ferrin, the only four-time All-American in Utah basketball history, played for both the 1944 and 1947 teams.
In 1948, university president A.
He also went on to help the Minneapolis Lakers win NBA Championships in 1949 and 1951.
Christensen in 1951, who also founded the San Francisco Ballet and Ballet West companies. ====Biology==== 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.
He also went on to help the Minneapolis Lakers win NBA Championships in 1949 and 1951.
Ray Olpin made substantial additions to campus following the war, and enrollment reached 12,000 by the time he retired in 1964.
Support for the band dwindled in the 60s, and ASUU (the Associated Students of the University of Utah) discontinued its funding in 1969.
Quinney College of Law, founded in 1913, was the only law school in Utah until the 1970s. ====Medicine==== The University of Utah 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. ====Pharmacology==== The University of Utah College of Pharmacy is 4th in the nation for NIH research grants.
As of 2013, it has qualified for the NCAA championship every year since 1976, the only program to do so.
The band was revived in 1976 after a fund raising effort.
The university has won thirteen NCAA Skiing Championships, most recently in 2019, as well as the 1977 AIAW National Women's Skiing Championship. ===Men's basketball=== The men's basketball team won the NCAA title in 1944 and the NIT crown in 1947.
Their first game in the Pac-12 was at USC on September 10, 2011, and resulted in a 23–14 Utah loss. ===Gymnastics=== The women's gymnastics team, coached by Megan Marsden, has won ten national championships, including the 1981 AIAW championship, and placed 2nd nationally eight times.
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. ====Pharmacology==== The University of Utah College of Pharmacy is 4th in the nation for NIH research grants.
Additional Fort Douglas land has been granted to the university over the years, and the fort was officially closed on October 26, 1991.
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 1996, Swoop was introduced as the new mascot of the University of Utah.
Wat Misaka, the first person of Asian descent to play in the NBA, also played for Utah during this era. Utah basketball rose again to national prominence when head coach Rick Majerus took his team, including guard Andre Miller, combo forward Hanno Möttölä, and post player Michael Doleac, to the NCAA Final Four in 1998.
Undergraduate tuition and fees for 2015–2016 were $8,240 for Utah residents (about 325% the cost of tuition and fees in 2000, $2,534 for 13 credit hours per semester, 2 semesters), and $26,180 for non-residents per 12-credit-hour semester. ===Admissions and demographics=== For the Class of 2023 (enrolling Fall 2019), Utah received 24,404 applications and accepted 15,159 (62%), with 4,249 enrolling.
Growth continued in the following decades as the university developed into a research center for fields such as computer science and medicine. During the 2002 Winter Olympics, the university hosted the Olympic Village, a housing complex for the Olympic and Paralympic athletes, as well as the opening and closing ceremonies.
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 head-dresses, and said he "Reflects the soaring spirit of our state and school" In 2002, the university was one of 20 schools to make the U.S.
The paper converted to a broadsheet format in 2003 when the Newspaper Agency Corporation began printing it.
After eliminating North Carolina to advance to the final round, Utah lost the championship game to Kentucky, 78–69. ===Football=== 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.
In 2004, Utah became the first state with a law expressly permitting concealed weapons on public university campuses.
In 2005, Utah became the first school to produce No.
Alex Smith was picked first overall by the San Francisco 49ers in the 2005 NFL Draft, and Andrew Bogut was picked first overall by the Milwaukee Bucks in the 2005 NBA Draft.
After eliminating North Carolina to advance to the final round, Utah lost the championship game to Kentucky, 78–69. ===Football=== 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.
They performed at the 2005 BCS Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, the 2009 BCS Allstate Sugar Bowl, and the Inaugural Parade of President Barack Obama. The band began as a military band in the 1940s.
The University of Utah tried to uphold its gun ban but the Utah Supreme Court rejected the ban in 2006. ==Media== The university has several public broadcasting affiliations, many of which utilize the Eccles Broadcast Center.
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. The expanded recycling program launched on July 1, 2007.
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.
In medicine, notable faculty include Mario Capecchi, the co-winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; Willem Johan Kolff; and Russell M.
The combined arrays annually produce 1,096,340 kilowatt hours, and are supported by a student fee sustainability program established in 2008. On November 1, 2019, the university entered into a renewable energy partnership with Rocky Mountain Power and Cyrq Energy which allows the purchase of 20 megawatts of geothermal energy for 25 years.
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.
The team ended its perfect 12–0 season ranked 4th in AP polling. 2008–2009 was another undefeated year for the football team, coached by Kyle Whittingham, as they finished the season 13–0 and defeated Alabama 31–17 in the 2009 Sugar Bowl.
They performed at the 2005 BCS Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, the 2009 BCS Allstate Sugar Bowl, and the Inaugural Parade of President Barack Obama. The band began as a military band in the 1940s.
In 2010, there was an average of 14,213 fans per meet, the largest crowd being 15,030. ===Marching band=== The university marching band, known as the "Pride of Utah", perform at all home football games, as well as some away games and bowl games.
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. The expanded recycling program launched on July 1, 2007.
At the end of the season, the Utes were the only unbeaten team in the country, with the nation's longest active streak of bowl victories (8). The Utah Utes moved to the Pac-12 Conference for the start of the 2011–2012 football season.
Their first game in the Pac-12 was at USC on September 10, 2011, and resulted in a 23–14 Utah loss. ===Gymnastics=== The women's gymnastics team, coached by Megan Marsden, has won ten national championships, including the 1981 AIAW championship, and placed 2nd nationally eight times.
As of 2011, the band is under the direction of Dr.
During 2011, the program celebrated its 40th anniversary.
The MHC is a dormitory strictly for honors students and was completed in fall 2012.
Students and staff can use their university IDs to ride UTA buses, TRAX, and FrontRunner. In 2012, the university unveiled a new plan for a more conducive campus for bicyclers called the "Bicycle Master Plan" which aims to transform the campus into a safer and more accessible place for bicyclers and to promote the increase of bicycle ridership.
Present graphics research is focused on biomedical applications for visualization, scientific computing, and image analysis at the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute. ====Dentistry==== In March 2012, the university received unanimous approval from the board of trustees to create a new academic college, the School of Dentistry, which is the university's first new college in sixty years.
The new school enrolled its first students for the fall semester of 2013 and averages the same cost as the university's medical school tuition. ====Law==== The S.J.
As of 2013, it has qualified for the NCAA championship every year since 1976, the only program to do so.
Multiple large improvements were made to the university prior to the events, including extensive renovations to the Rice-Eccles Stadium, a light rail line leading to downtown Salt Lake City, a new student center known as the Heritage Center, an array of new student housing, and what is now a 180-room campus hotel and conference center. The University of Utah Asia Campus opened as an international branch campus in the Incheon Global Campus in Songdo, Incheon, South Korea in 2014.
The committees report to the full Senate and the Senate often acts on their proposals as well as on issues brought to its attention by the administration. As of 2014, the university's revenues totaled $3.6 billion, of which 44% comes from patient care, 19% from sales and services, 10% from grants and contracts, 8.2% from tuition and fees, 7.7% from state appropriations, 3.4% from auxiliary enterprises, and the rest from other revenues.
The Asia Campus was funded by the South Korean government. In 2015, the university helped open the Ensign College of Public Health in Kpong, Ghana. In 2019, the university was named a member of the Association of American Universities. ==Campus== Campus takes up , including the Health Sciences complex, Research Park, and Fort Douglas.
Undergraduate tuition and fees for 2015–2016 were $8,240 for Utah residents (about 325% the cost of tuition and fees in 2000, $2,534 for 13 credit hours per semester, 2 semesters), and $26,180 for non-residents per 12-credit-hour semester. ===Admissions and demographics=== For the Class of 2023 (enrolling Fall 2019), Utah received 24,404 applications and accepted 15,159 (62%), with 4,249 enrolling.
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.
George and Sandy. In July 2017, the Academic Senate bestowed the designation of tobacco-free campus on the university, but rules were not enforced until 2018.
Football income was $56 million in 2017-2018. ==Academics and rankings== The University of Utah is a public flagship four-year research university accredited through the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities since 1933.
According to the National Science Foundation, the university spent $552 million on research and development in 2018, ranking it 45th in the nation.
George and Sandy. In July 2017, the Academic Senate bestowed the designation of tobacco-free campus on the university, but rules were not enforced until 2018.
The School for Cultural and Social Transformation is the university's newest college, with its first graduating class in 2018. College of Architecture and Planning David Eccles School of Business School for Cultural and Social Transformation School of Dentistry College of Education College of Engineering College of Fine Arts College of Health University of Utah Honors College College of Humanities S.J.
It received its current name in 1892, four years before Utah attained statehood, and moved to its current location in 1900. As of Fall 2019, there were 24,485 undergraduate students and 8,333 graduate students, for an enrollment total of 32,818, making it the second largest public university in the state after Utah Valley University.
The Asia Campus was funded by the South Korean government. In 2015, the university helped open the Ensign College of Public Health in Kpong, Ghana. In 2019, the university was named a member of the Association of American Universities. ==Campus== Campus takes up , including the Health Sciences complex, Research Park, and Fort Douglas.
The combined arrays annually produce 1,096,340 kilowatt hours, and are supported by a student fee sustainability program established in 2008. On November 1, 2019, the university entered into a renewable energy partnership with Rocky Mountain Power and Cyrq Energy which allows the purchase of 20 megawatts of geothermal energy for 25 years.
Undergraduate tuition and fees for 2015–2016 were $8,240 for Utah residents (about 325% the cost of tuition and fees in 2000, $2,534 for 13 credit hours per semester, 2 semesters), and $26,180 for non-residents per 12-credit-hour semester. ===Admissions and demographics=== For the Class of 2023 (enrolling Fall 2019), Utah received 24,404 applications and accepted 15,159 (62%), with 4,249 enrolling.
The university has won thirteen NCAA Skiing Championships, most recently in 2019, as well as the 1977 AIAW National Women's Skiing Championship. ===Men's basketball=== The men's basketball team won the NCAA title in 1944 and the NIT crown in 1947.
Kahlert Village, completed August 2020, houses 990 first-year students. ===Transportation=== A number of campus shuttles, running on biodiesel and used vegetable oil, circle the campus on six different routes.
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