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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 (/ ˌdɛzəˈrɛt / ⓘ) [ 13 ] by the General Assembly of the provisional State of Deseret, [ 1 ] making it Utah's oldest institution of higher education. [ 14 ] The university received its current name in 1892, four ...
The Block U is a large concrete hillside letter on Mount Van Cott in Salt Lake City, Utah. The stylized "U" is a logo of the University of Utah and is located just north of the university’s campus. It is one of the earliest hillside letters. It sits at 1,600 metres (5,200 ft) above sea level. Lights outlining the Block U flash when the Utah Utes athletic teams win and burn steady when they ...
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.
The Utah teapot, a model by Martin Newell (1975). Newell developed the Utah teapot while working on a Ph.D. at the University of Utah, [1][6] where he also helped develop a version of the painter's algorithm for rendering. He graduated in 1975, and was on the Utah faculty from 1977 to 1979. [7] Later he worked at Xerox PARC, where he worked on ...
Public institutions. All public institutions in the state of Utah are managed by the Utah System of Higher Education, which consists of eight public colleges and universities and eight technical colleges.
cis is a mathematical notation defined by cis x = cos x + i sin x, [nb 1] where cos is the cosine function, i is the imaginary unit and sin is the sine function. x is the argument of the complex number (angle between line to point and x-axis in polar form).
The J. Willard Marriott Library is the main academic library of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah. The university library has had multiple homes since the first University of Utah librarian was appointed in 1850. The current building was opened in 1968 and named for J. Willard Marriott, founder of Marriott International, in 1969. After two major renovations, the building is more ...
The University of Utah Hospital is a research and teaching hospital on the campus of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah. It serves as a major regional referral center for Utah and the surrounding states of Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming, Montana and Colorado. Since 1965, it has grown to become a health care system known as University of Utah Health, which includes five hospitals and twelve ...