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 University of Utah  (University)    | |
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| Formation | February 28, 1850 |
| Headquarters | Salt Lake City, Utah |
| Type | • Public • Flagship • research • Space-grant |
| Other name | Utes |
| 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
| Person | Born | Died | Nationality | Summary | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robert Bennett | 18 September 1933 | 4 May 2016 | Politician | Mormon US Senator who attended Brussels Forums | |
| Carlos Cardoen | 1 May 1942 | Chile | Arms Dealer | ||
| William Gossett | 1905 | 20 July 1998 | US | Lawyer | Ford Motor Company executive appointed Deputy Special Representative for Trade Negotiations by JFK (on the advice of Robert S. McNamara) |
| Harvey Hancock | 2 January 1900 | 8 January 1996 | Businessperson | Campaign 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 Huntsman | 26 March 1960 | US | Diplomat 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 Irvine | 29 September 1922 | 16 November 2004 | US | Economist | Founded the conservative media censorship pressure group Accuracy in Media |
| Frederick Kempe | 5 September 1954 | US | Spook Journalist Deep state actor | Spook and deep state actor | |
| Wayne Owens | 2 May 1937 | 18 December 2002 | Politician | Found dead in Tel Aviv | |
| Karl Rove | 25 December 1950 | Deep 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. Young | 6 March 1952 | US | Doctor | American dietician sceptical of the COVID-19 Vaccines. |
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References
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20130111202450/http://www.obia.utah.edu/content/fastfacts.pdf
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20081116112412/http://www.lib.utah.edu/portal/site/marriottlibrary/menuitem.350f2794f84fb3b29cf87354d1e916b9/?vgnextoid=99f582749bbfb110VgnVCM1000001c9e619bRCRD
- ↑ http://www.rhodesscholar.org/winners/winning-institutions/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20151222074638/http://www.physics.utah.edu/index.php/people/faculty-physical-phenomena%7Curl-status=dead}}
- ↑ 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
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20151122135405/http://capecchi.genetics.utah.edu/capecchi.html
- ↑ http://archive.sltrib.com/story.php?ref=/utah/ci_13506868
- ↑ http://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/kay_3972189.cfm
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20170919194156/http://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/sutherland_3467412.cfm
- ↑ https://amturing.acm.org/%7Caccess-date=2020-03-18
- ↑ https://www.macfound.org/fellows/search/?sort_name=&fellow_class=&area=&birth_state=&state=&include_deceased=1&educational_institutions=10°ree_type=%7Caccess-date=December 11, 2015
- ↑ https://www.macfound.org/fellows/search/?sort_name=&fellow_class=&area=&birth_state=&state=UT&include_deceased=1&educational_institutions=°ree_type=%7Caccess-date=August 9, 2017
- ↑ http://www.sltrib.com/news/4015875-155/pulitzer-prize-winning-deseret-news-reporter-bob
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/15/obituaries/wallace-stegner-is-dead-at-84-pulitzer-prize-winning-author.html
- ↑ https://www.historians.org/about-aha-and-membership/aha-history-and-archives/presidential-addresses/laurel-thatcher-ulrich-biography
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20171012154523/https://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/lind-dl.html
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20171012154519/http://www.spaceacts.com/starship/seh/garn.htm
- ↑ http://archive.unews.utah.edu/news_releases/u-grad-student-named-2014-gates-cambridge-scholar/
- ↑ http://unews.utah.edu/university-of-utah-student-awarded-prestigious-churchill-scholarship/
- ↑ http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865672236/U-mathematics-student-awarded-Churchill-Scholarship.html}
