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The College of Science at the University of Utah is an academic college of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah. The college offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in atmospheric science , biology , chemistry , geology and geophysics , mathematics , metallurgical engineering , mining engineering and physics and astronomy .
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.
Richard Ketchum joined the University of Utah in 1910 and became the second Chair of the Civil Engineering Department in 1919. He joined the Engineering Experiment Station in 1922 prior to serving as Dean. Albert L. Taylor: 1939–1952: Taylor joined the University of Utah in 1923 as an associate professor of mechanical engineering.
The Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute started in 1992 as a research group in the University of Utah School of Computing by Chris Johnson and Rob MacLeod. In 1994 this group became the Center for Scientific Computing and Imaging, and in 2000 the name was changed to the Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute.
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]
NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams (4 ounces) of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample canister to the Utah desert in 2023 before swooping off ...
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
In 1970, the university's hospital established the first cerebrovascular disease unit in the U.S. west of the Mississippi River. On December 1, 1982, the first artificial heart implant was performed at the University of Utah (by Dr. DeVries, mentioned above). The patient, retired dentist Barney Clark, had suffered from congestive heart failure.