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The University of Utah (the U, U of U, or simply Utah) [12] is a public research university in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.It was established in 1850 as the University of Deseret [13] by the General Assembly of the provisional State of Deseret, [1] 25 years before Brigham Young University and making it Utah's oldest institution of higher education. [14]
This list of University of Utah people includes notable alumni, non-graduate former students, faculty, staff, and former university presidents. The University of Utah , located in Salt Lake City , Utah , is a flagship public space-grant research university .
The University of Utah presidents include all sixteen men and women who served as president of the University of Utah or its predecessor the University of Deseret, which was founded in 1850 [1] just a few years after the Mormon Pioneers arrived in the Salt Lake Valley.
The Utah Utes football program is a college football team that represents the University of Utah. The team has had 23 head coaches since organized football began in 1892. Harvey Holmes was the first paid head coach, and the Utes have had 17 paid, professional head coaches. The Utes have played in more than 1,000 games during its 116 seasons.
The University of Deseret was renamed as the University of Utah in 1892 and degree programs in the traditional academic departments of letters, arts, and sciences were organized under the University College. [3] In 1957, the University College became the College of Letters and Science under dean and philosophy professor Sterling M. McMurrin. [5]
University of Utah: Salt Lake City: 1850 32,818 $1.07 billion (2020) NCAA Div I Big 12: Utes Utah State University: Logan: 1888 27,426 $427.4 million (2020) NCAA Div I Mountain West: Aggies Utah Tech University: St. George: 1911 11,193 $16.3 million (2019) NCAA Div I WAC: Trailblazers Utah Valley University: Orem: 1941 41,728 $39.8 million ...
The Utah Utes are the intercollegiate athletics teams that represent the University of Utah, located in Salt Lake City. The athletic department is named after the Ute tribe of Native Americans . The men's basketball team is known as the Runnin' Utes ; the women's gymnastics team is known as the Red Rocks .
In 1900 the University of Utah moved to the current east-bench campus on land that used to belong to Fort Douglas. [5] The four original buildings, which are currently known as the John Widtsoe Building, the LeRoy Cowles Building, the Alfred Emery Building, and the James Talmage Building were built on what is now University of Utah circle.