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5 unusual facts about University of Utah


Bateman–Horn conjecture

In number theory, the Bateman–Horn conjecture is a statement concerning the frequency of prime numbers among the values of a system of polynomials, named after mathematicians Paul T. Bateman and Roger A Horn, of The University of Utah, who proposed it in 1962.

Hope for the Flowers

Xan S. Johnson, PhD, Professor, Department of Theater, University of Utah, produced a musical stage version of Hope for Flowers, choreographed by Darlene Casanova.

Park Building

Park Building (University of Utah), The central administration building on the university's campus

Spain Park High School

The Dance program attends the UDA Camp each year at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa and performed at the 2009 Sugar Bowl between the University of Alabama and the University of Utah along with hundreds of other dancers from all over the Southeast.

Stanisław Komorowski

In 1986 and for a half year between 1989 and 1990, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Chemistry Department at the University of Utah in professor Edward Eyring's lab.


3D computer graphics

One of the first displays of computer animation was Futureworld (1976), which included an animation of a human face and a hand that had originally appeared in the 1971 experimental short A Computer Animated Hand, created by University of Utah students Edwin Catmull and Fred Parke.

AMBER

It is maintained by an active collaboration between David Case at Rutgers University, Tom Cheatham at the University of Utah, Tom Darden at NIEHS, Ken Merz at Florida, Carlos Simmerling at Stony Brook University, Ray Luo at UC Irvine, and Junmei Wang at Encysive Pharmaceuticals.

Barry Kopetz

Prior to his appointment there, he was a professor of music at the University of Utah, where he founded the Salt Lake Symphonic Winds.

Becky Hammon

She was the WAC Mountain Division player of the year for the 1998-1999 season and surpassed University of Utah player Keith Van Horn as the WAC's all-time leading scorer.

Brewster Ghiselin

He then went on to be a member of the English faculty at the University of Utah where he taught English.

CASPA

It is currently used by nearly 150 schools, including the top 5 PA Schools: Duke University, Emory University, George Washington University, University of Utah, and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

Conus magus

Discovered by Dr. Baldomero Olivera at University of Utah, it was developed for treatment of chronic and intractable pain caused by AIDS, cancer, neurological disorders and other maladies, and was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in December 2004 under the name Prialt.

Fast Sunday

Research presented at a recent meeting of the American Heart Association by Benjamin Horne of the University of Utah suggests that the monthly fasts help to protect against coronary artery disease.

History of Arizona State University

In 1960 the arrival of ASU President G. Homer Durham from the University of Utah marked the beginning of attempts to actively recruit research science faculty.

HP 9000

The origin of these ports were mostly either internal HP Labs projects or HP products, or academic research (mostly the University of Utah).

John A. Moran

Moran helped establish the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah, and is affiliated with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Advisory Council of the University of Utah, and the George and Barbara Bush Endowment for Innovation Cancer Research at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas.

Joseph C. Sharp

Joseph Sharp received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Psychology and Neuroanatomy from the University of Utah.

Margaret Bird

Ms. Bird received her Bachelor's Degree in Theoretical Mathematics from Vanderbilt University and her Master's Degree in Economics from the University of Utah.

National Center for Voice and Speech

The NCVS was organized on the premise that a consortium of institutions (including the Wilber James Gould Voice Center at the DCPA, University of Iowa, University of Utah, University of Wisconsin–Madison) would be better able to conduct and disseminate research than a single organization.

Omo Kibish Formation

"It pushes back the beginning of anatomically modern humans", says geologist Frank Brown, a co-author of the study and dean of the University of Utah's College of Mines and Earth Sciences.

Orrice Abram Murdock, Jr.

Born in Austin, Nevada, he moved with his parents to Beaver, Utah in 1898, attended the public schools and Murdock Academy in Beaver, and the University of Utah at Salt Lake City.

Philip Freelon

Freelon has served as an adjunct professor at the College of Design, North Carolina State University and has been a visiting critic/lecturer at Harvard University, MIT, the University of Maryland, College Park, the University of Utah, the California College of the Arts, Kent State University (Florence Italy, program), Syracuse University, and the New Jersey Institute of Technology, among others.

Weber State Wildcats

The football team recently changed leadership, with the addition of new head coach Ron McBride, former head coach of the University of Utah, who began coaching the Wildcats in 2005.

Willem Johan Kolff

Robert Jarvik, who worked in Kolff's laboratory at the University of Utah beginning in 1971, credited Kolff with inspiring him to develop the first permanent artificial heart.


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Algie Eggertsen Ballif

Their daughter Ann Greta Ballif was the wife of Chase N. Peterson who served as president of the University of Utah.

Bernard Weiss

Bernard G. Weiss, professor emeritus of languages and literature at University of Utah

Buildings and sites of Salt Lake City

Utah Museum of Fine Arts - museum at the University of Utah specializing in Mountain West artwork.

BYU Division of Continuing Education

Other courses were offered at the Craft House, Barrett Hall, the Salt Lake Assembly Hall, the Institute of Religion adjacent to the University of Utah, and many other locations.

David Gardner

David P. Gardner (born 1933), president of the University of California and also president of the University of Utah

Dependency theory

Matias Vernengo, a University of Utah economist, identifies two main streams in dependency theory: the Latin American Structuralist, typified by the work of Prebisch, Celso Furtado and Anibal Pinto at the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC, or, in Spanish, CEPAL); and the American Marxist, developed by Paul A. Baran, Paul Sweezy, and Andre Gunder Frank.

Earl C. Tingey

For periods of time he has also been a member of the University of Utah Alumni Board and the National Advisory Board of the Utah Symphony.

K-UTE

U-TV, the cable network of the University of Utah carries the station on channel 99, with Powerpoint advertisements for the station and some of its shows.

Lambda Delta Sigma

Lambda Delta Sigma (LDS Church) : a sorority founded in 1960 for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church); now replaced with the LDS Student Association at all universities except the University of Utah

Maui Cluster Scheduler

Its development was made possible by the support of Cluster Resources, Inc. (now Adaptive Computing) and the contributions of many individuals and sites including the U.S. Department of Energy, PNNL, the Center for High Performance Computing at the University of Utah (CHPC), Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC), University of Southern California (USC), SDSC, MHPCC, BYU, NCSA, and many others.

Moran Eye Center

The Moran Eye Center is the result of a $3,500,000 donation from University of Utah alumnus John A. Moran, which became the foundation of a further fundraising effort involving patients, friends of the University, and benevolent organizations.

O.C. Tanner

Obert C. Tanner (1904–1993), a University of Utah professor of philosophy, philanthropist, and businessman

Parmley

Thomas J. Parmley (1897–1997), physics professor at the University of Utah

Pierre Auger Observatory

Meanwhile, from the Volcano Ranch (New Mexico, 1959–1978), the Fly's Eye (Dugway, Utah) and its successor the High Resolution Fly's Eye Cosmic Ray Detector called "HiRes" or "Fly's Eye" (University of Utah), the technique of the Fluorescence Detector was developed.

Ray Giacoletti

During Giacoletti's tenure, Andrew Bogut was named the John R. Wooden Award winner and became the #1 draft pick in the 2005 NBA draft - joining fellow University of Utah student-athlete Alex Smith as the only time that two athletes from the same school were selected #1 in their respective drafts in the same year.

Shoshoni language

A summer Shoshone/Goshute Youth Language Apprenticeship Program (SYLAP), held at the University of Utah's Center for American Indian Languages since 2009 has been featured on NPR's Weekend Edition program.

Stanley Mulaik

His interest in Interlingua came as an undergraduate at the University of Utah in 1953 when he discovered a column in Science News Letter of science abstracts in Interlingua .

Utah Italians

Copies of these newspapers, as well as old pictures, and taped and transcribed interviews of prominent Italians are kept at the Special Collection of the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah.