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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. It was established in 1850 as the University of Deseret ( / ˌ d ɛ z ə ˈ r ɛ t / ⓘ ) [ 13 ] by the General Assembly of the provisional State of Deseret , [ 1 ] making it Utah's oldest institution of higher education. [ 14 ]
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.
Utah Historical Quarterly 66 (1998): 159–177. May, Dean L. Utah: A people's history (U of Utah Press, 1987). Peterson, Charles S. and Brian Q. Cannon. The Awkward State of Utah: Coming of Age in the Nation, 1896–1945. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2015. ISBN 978-1-60781-421-4, scholarly survey
Education. University of Utah. Stanford University. Occupation (s) Founder, O.C. Tanner Co. Spouse. Grace. Obert Clark Tanner (September 20, 1904 – October 14, 1993) was a University of Utah professor of philosophy, philanthropist, and founder of O.C. Tanner Co. [1]
Cal Rampton – Governor of Utah (1965–1977) Joseph Lafayette Rawlins – U.S. Senator, R-UT (1897–1903) Karl Rove – chief political strategist and adviser to George W. Bush; attended but never graduated. Judy Shelton – economic advisor to Donald Trump. Laura Smith - member of the Montana House of Representatives.
The Utah Utes football program is a college football team that competes in the Big 12 Conference of the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of NCAA Division I and represents the University of Utah. [2] The Utah college football program began in 1892 and has played home games at the current site of Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City since 1927.
John Edward Warnock (October 6, 1940 – August 19, 2023) was an American computer scientist, inventor, technology businessman, and philanthropist best known for co-founding Adobe Systems Inc., the graphics and publishing software company, with Charles Geschke in 1982. [ 2] Warnock was President of Adobe for his first two years and chairman and ...
The David Eccles School of Business is located on the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City, Utah.The school was founded as the "School of Commerce & Finance" in 1917 and subsequently changed its name to "School of Business" in 1927, although business classes were taught through the Economics & Sociology department at the University starting in 1896.