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David W. Pershing is an American educator and former president of the University of Utah. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He received a bachelor's degree from Purdue University in 1970 [ 3 ] and a PhD from University of Arizona .
The University of Utah offers more than 100 undergraduate majors and more than 92 graduate degree programs, and includes three professional graduate schools: the University of Utah School of Medicine, the David Eccles School of Business, and the S.J. Quinney College of Law. [3]
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]
The first research doctorate was the doctor of philosophy, which came to the U.S. from Germany, and is frequently referred to by its initials of Ph.D. As academia evolved in the country a wide variety of other types of doctoral degrees and programs were developed.
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]
Utah State University: Logan: Public Doctoral/Research university 28,063 1888 Regional campus: USU Eastern Statewide campuses: Brigham City, Tooele, and Uintah Basin (Roosevelt and Vernal) [6] Utah Tech University: St. George: Public Baccalaureate college: 12,567 1911 Hurricane: Utah Valley University: Orem: Public Master's university 46,809 1941
At the University of Utah, Diamond was an assistant professor from 1999 to 2005, and an associate professor from 2005 to 2012. She became a professor of psychology and gender studies in 2012. [ 2 ] She serves on the editorial boards of Developmental Psychology , Archives of Sexual Behavior , and various other journals. [ 2 ]
Computing research at the University of Utah started in 1965 when former university president James Fletcher recruited Berkeley professor David C. Evans to return to his home state to establish a computer science division within the electrical engineering department. Evans graduated from the University of Utah in 1953 with a Ph.D. in physics.