SOUTH UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
FACTS Salt Lake City, Utah Founded: 1850 Joined Pac-12: 2011 Undergrad students: 24,297 Graduate students: 7,363 President: A. Lorris Betz
NCAA championships (all sports, all-time): 20
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he oldest and largest institution of higher education in the state of Utah. . . . Originally founded in 1850 as the
University of Deseret, the school took its current name in 1892 (four years before Utah became a state). . . . The university offers more than 100 under- graduate and more than 90 graduate degree programs. . . . The most popular bachelor’s degrees of the 2000s include psychology, human development and family study, fi nance, sociology, and ac- counting. The most popular master’s degrees are in business ad- ministration, social work, and educational studies. . . . According to the Association of University Technology Managers, Utah ranks No. 1 in the nation in creating start-up companies from university re- search. . . . The university is the one of the state’s largest employers and is ranked as one of the top public research universities in the nation. . . . In athletics, Utah is the only school ever to produce the No. 1 overall pick in both the NFL Draft (quarterback Alex Smith) and the NBA Draft (center Andrew Bogut) in the same year (2005). . . . Seven world-class ski resorts are located within 40 minutes of campus; not surprisingly, the school has won 10 NCAA skiing championships. . . .During the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, the school hosted the Olympic Village.
FAMOUS ALUMNI
Entrepreneur James H. Clark • Poet Katharine Coles • Author Stephen Covey • Football coach LaVell Edwards • Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. • Structural biologist Venkatraman Ramakrishnan • Author Wallace Stegner • Speed reading innovator Evelyn Wood
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School of Medicine
The University of Utah School of
Medicine was founded in 1905 and remains the only medical school in the state of Utah. The school is world-renowned in fi elds such as biomedical informatics (it created the fi rst Department of Biomedi- cal Informatics in the nation in 1964) and human genetics. Among the School of Medicine’s many notable accomplishments: In 1982, Dr. William DeVries and his surgical team performed the fi rst artifi cial heart transplant.
Football home: Rice-Eccles Stadium
UTAH
Swoop A red-tailed
hawk, Swoop has been the Utah teams’ mascot since 1996. Since 1972, though, Utah’s athletic teams have actually been nick- named the Utes. A Ute is a member of the Native American tribe believed to have originally settled Utah. The school uses the nickname with permission of the Ute Tribal Council.
University of Utah
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