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The '''University of Utah''' is a [[public university|public]] [[research university]] in [[Salt Lake City]], [[Utah]]. It is the [[flagship institution]] of the [[Utah System of Higher Education]]. The university was established in 1850 as the '''University of Deseret''' making it Utah's oldest institution of higher education.<ref name="fast facts">https://web.archive.org/web/20130111202450/http://www.obia.utah.edu/content/fastfacts.pdf</ref> It received its current name in 1892, four years before Utah attained statehood, and moved to its current location in 1900.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20081116112412/http://www.lib.utah.edu/portal/site/marriottlibrary/menuitem.350f2794f84fb3b29cf87354d1e916b9/?vgnextoid=99f582749bbfb110VgnVCM1000001c9e619bRCRD</ref>
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Twenty-two [[Rhodes Scholarship|Rhodes Scholars]],<ref>http://www.rhodesscholar.org/winners/winning-institutions/</ref> four [[Nobel Prize|Nobel Prize winners]],<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20151222074638/http://www.physics.utah.edu/index.php/people/faculty-physical-phenomena|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>http://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2017/10/03/utah-born-kip-thorne-wins-the-nobel-prize-for-physics-for-his-role-in-detecting-gravitational-waves</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20151122135405/http://capecchi.genetics.utah.edu/capecchi.html</ref><ref>http://archive.sltrib.com/story.php?ref=/utah/ci_13506868</ref> three [[Turing Award]] winners,<ref>http://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/kay_3972189.cfm</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20170919194156/http://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/sutherland_3467412.cfm</ref><ref>https://amturing.acm.org/|access-date=2020-03-18</ref> eight [[MacArthur Fellows Program|MacArthur Fellows]],<ref>https://www.macfound.org/fellows/search/?sort_name=&fellow_class=&area=&birth_state=&state=&include_deceased=1&educational_institutions=10&degree_type=|access-date=December 11, 2015</ref><ref>https://www.macfound.org/fellows/search/?sort_name=&fellow_class=&area=&birth_state=&state=UT&include_deceased=1&educational_institutions=&degree_type=|access-date=August 9, 2017</ref> various [[Pulitzer Prize]] winners,<ref>http://www.sltrib.com/news/4015875-155/pulitzer-prize-winning-deseret-news-reporter-bob</ref><ref>https://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/15/obituaries/wallace-stegner-is-dead-at-84-pulitzer-prize-winning-author.html</ref><ref>https://www.historians.org/about-aha-and-membership/aha-history-and-archives/presidential-addresses/laurel-thatcher-ulrich-biography</ref> two astronauts,<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20171012154523/https://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/lind-dl.html</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20171012154519/http://www.spaceacts.com/starship/seh/garn.htm</ref> [[Gates Cambridge Scholarship|Gates Cambridge Scholars]],<ref>http://archive.unews.utah.edu/news_releases/u-grad-student-named-2014-gates-cambridge-scholar/</ref> and [[Churchill Scholarship|Churchill Scholars]] have been affiliated with the university as students, researchers, or faculty members in its history.<ref>http://unews.utah.edu/university-of-utah-student-awarded-prestigious-churchill-scholarship/</ref><ref>http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865672236/U-mathematics-student-awarded-Churchill-Scholarship.html}</ref>
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Group.png University of Utah  
(University) WebsiteRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
UofU official seal.png
FormationFebruary 28, 1850
HeadquartersSalt Lake City, Utah
Type•  Public
•  Flagship
•  research
•  Space-grant
Other nameUtes
Public research university in Salt Lake City, Utah

Not to be confused with Brigham Young University.

The University of Utah is a public research university in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is the flagship institution of the Utah System of Higher Education. The university was established in 1850 as the University of Deseret making it Utah's oldest institution of higher education.[1] It received its current name in 1892, four years before Utah attained statehood, and moved to its current location in 1900.[2]

Twenty-two Rhodes Scholars,[3] four Nobel Prize winners,[4][5][6][7] three Turing Award winners,[8][9][10] eight MacArthur Fellows,[11][12] various Pulitzer Prize winners,[13][14][15] two astronauts,[16][17] Gates Cambridge Scholars,[18] and Churchill Scholars have been affiliated with the university as students, researchers, or faculty members in its history.[19][20]


 

Alumni on Wikispooks

PersonBornDiedNationalitySummaryDescription
Robert Bennett18 September 19334 May 2016PoliticianMormon US Senator who attended Brussels Forums
Carlos Cardoen1 May 1942ChileArms Dealer
William Gossett190520 July 1998USLawyerFord Motor Company executive appointed Deputy Special Representative for Trade Negotiations by JFK (on the advice of Robert S. McNamara)
Harvey Hancock2 January 19008 January 1996BusinesspersonCampaign manager for Richard Nixon's successful 1950 United States Senate race and then the 1952 general election won by Dwight D. Eisenhower and Nixon. Bohemian Grove.
Jon Huntsman26 March 1960USDiplomat
Deep state functionary
Businessperson		Multiple US Deep State connected roles, Atlantic Council Chairman, US Ambassador to Russia. Aggressive pusher of the COVID-19 jabs. In Epstein's Black Book.
Reed Irvine29 September 192216 November 2004USEconomistFounded the conservative media censorship pressure group Accuracy in Media
Frederick Kempe5 September 1954USSpook
Journalist
Deep state actor		Spook and deep state actor
Wayne Owens2 May 193718 December 2002PoliticianFound dead in Tel Aviv
Karl Rove25 December 1950Deep politician"That’s not the way the world really works anymore. We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality."
Robert O. Young6 March 1952USDoctorAmerican dietician sceptical of the COVID-19 Vaccines.
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References

  1. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20130111202450/http://www.obia.utah.edu/content/fastfacts.pdf
  2. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20081116112412/http://www.lib.utah.edu/portal/site/marriottlibrary/menuitem.350f2794f84fb3b29cf87354d1e916b9/?vgnextoid=99f582749bbfb110VgnVCM1000001c9e619bRCRD
  3. ↑ http://www.rhodesscholar.org/winners/winning-institutions/
  4. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20151222074638/http://www.physics.utah.edu/index.php/people/faculty-physical-phenomena%7Curl-status=dead}}
  5. ↑ http://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2017/10/03/utah-born-kip-thorne-wins-the-nobel-prize-for-physics-for-his-role-in-detecting-gravitational-waves
  6. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20151122135405/http://capecchi.genetics.utah.edu/capecchi.html
  7. ↑ http://archive.sltrib.com/story.php?ref=/utah/ci_13506868
  8. ↑ http://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/kay_3972189.cfm
  9. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20170919194156/http://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/sutherland_3467412.cfm
  10. ↑ https://amturing.acm.org/%7Caccess-date=2020-03-18
  11. ↑ https://www.macfound.org/fellows/search/?sort_name=&fellow_class=&area=&birth_state=&state=&include_deceased=1&educational_institutions=10&degree_type=%7Caccess-date=December 11, 2015
  12. ↑ https://www.macfound.org/fellows/search/?sort_name=&fellow_class=&area=&birth_state=&state=UT&include_deceased=1&educational_institutions=&degree_type=%7Caccess-date=August 9, 2017
  13. ↑ http://www.sltrib.com/news/4015875-155/pulitzer-prize-winning-deseret-news-reporter-bob
  14. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/15/obituaries/wallace-stegner-is-dead-at-84-pulitzer-prize-winning-author.html
  15. ↑ https://www.historians.org/about-aha-and-membership/aha-history-and-archives/presidential-addresses/laurel-thatcher-ulrich-biography
  16. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20171012154523/https://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/lind-dl.html
  17. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20171012154519/http://www.spaceacts.com/starship/seh/garn.htm
  18. ↑ http://archive.unews.utah.edu/news_releases/u-grad-student-named-2014-gates-cambridge-scholar/
  19. ↑ http://unews.utah.edu/university-of-utah-student-awarded-prestigious-churchill-scholarship/
  20. ↑ http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865672236/U-mathematics-student-awarded-Churchill-Scholarship.html}
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