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University of Utah
A central walkway at the University of Utah campus
Type	Public/co-ed
Established	1850
Endowment	$513.4 million
President	Michael K. Young
Administrative staff	14,362
Undergraduates	21,526
Postgraduates	6,685
Location	Salt Lake City , Utah , United States
Athletics	NCAA Division I FBS
Nickname	Utes
Mascot	Swoop
Website	www.utah.edu

The University of Utah is a public, co-ed university in Salt Lake City, Utah.

The University of Utah's athletic team's are called the Utes, which is named after a tribe of Native Americans called the Ute Tribe and they have 17 varsity teams.

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University Hall in Salt Lake City, the first permanent home of the University of Deseret (later the University of Utah)
The Donna Garff Marriott Honors Residential Scholars Community.
UTA TRAX services the university and other parts of Salt Lake City
The University of Utah Medical Center
Merrill Engineering Building
The S.J. Quinney College of Law.
Mario Capecchi, Distinguished Professor of Human Genetics and Biology, co-winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
John Warnock, B.S. 1961, M.S. 1964, Ph.D. 1969, co-founder of Adobe Systems Inc.
James H. Clark, Ph.D. 1974, founder of Netscape, Silicon Graphics, myCFO, Healtheon, co-author of the Catmull-Clark algorithm
Nolan Bushnell, B.S. 1968, founder of Chuck E. Cheese's, co-founder of Atari
J. Willard Marriott, A.B. 1926, founder of Marriott International
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, B.A. 1960, received the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1991
Jake Garn, B.S. 1955, U.S. Senator and Space Shuttle astronaut
Alan Kay, M.S. 1968, Ph.D. 1969, father of Object-Oriented Programming, 2003 Turing Award and 2004 Kyoto Prize winner
William DeVries, B.S. 1966, M.D. 1970, performed the first transplant of a Total Artificial Heart using the Jarvik-7 model
Robert A. McDonald, M.B.A. 1978, past CEO of Procter & Gamble, 8th United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Ralph Hartley, A.B. 1909, invented the Hartley oscillator and the Hartley transform, recipient of the IEEE Medal of Honor
Ivan Sutherland, past Professor of Computer Science from 1968-1974, winner of the Turing Award in 1988, Kyoto Prize in 2012, co-founder of Evans and Sutherland
Thomas Stockham, past Professor of Electrical Engineering from 1968-1975, 1983-1994, father of digital recording, founder of Soundstream, won an Emmy Award, Grammy Award, Academy Award, served as a Nixon White House tapes investigator
Stephen Covey, B.S. 1952, author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Russell M. Nelson, B.A. 1945, M.D. 1947, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, past President of the Society for Vascular Surgery, past Director of the American Board of Thoracic Surgery
LaVell Edwards, M.S. 1960, former head football coach of Brigham Young University
E. Gordon Gee, B.A. 1968, past president of universities including Ohio State, Vanderbilt, Brown and University of Colorado
Martha Raddatz, non-graduate alumna, ABC News Chief Global Affairs Correspondent, recipient of 4 Emmy Awards
Jon Huntsman, Jr., non-graduate alumnus, U.S. Ambassador to China, Russia and Singapore, 16th Governor of Utah
Karl Rove, non-graduate alumnus, Senior Advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff in the George W. Bush administration
David Neeleman, non-graduate alumnus, founder of JetBlue Airways, Azul Brazilian Airlines, co-founder of WestJet Airlines

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