List of University of Utah people explained

This list of University of Utah people includes notable alumni, non-graduate former students, faculty, staff, and former university presidents. The University of Utah, located in Salt Lake City, Utah, is a flagship public space-grant research university. The school is notable for having been one of the first four nodes of the ARPANET and the first node outside of California, as well as forming the first computer graphics research group.^{[1] [2]}

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 enrollment for 2016 was 23,789 undergraduate and 8,071 graduate students, with 1,505 full-time faculty members and 5,230 staff.^[4]

Notable alumni

Mathematics

• Richard Eliot Chamberlin – geometric topologist, visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study, and Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians
• Alessio Corti – geometer at Imperial College London and winner of the London Mathematical Society Whitehead Prize
• John E. Dennis – editor-in-chief and founder of the SIAM Journal on Optimization, pioneered convergence analysis of quasi-Newton methods^[5]
• Gordana Matic – geometric topologist, C. L. E. Moore instructor at MIT, Fellow of the American Mathematical Society

Music and entertainment

• Jen Shah – Reality TV star on The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City
• Peter Breinholt – folk recording artist
• Matthew Davis – actor noted for roles in Legally Blonde and The Vampire Diaries
• Dan Farr – co-founder of Salt Lake Comic Con and technology entrepreneur
• Denali Foxx, born Cordero Zuckerman – American Drag Performer, contestant on the thirteenth season of RuPaul's Drag Race
• Kaskade, born Ryan Raddon – DJ
• Steven Sharp Nelson – cellist, member of The Piano Guys^[6]
• Josh Rosenthal – performing singer/songwriter

Criminals

• Ted Bundy – notorious serial killer; briefly attended Utah's law school prior to his 1975 arrest and conviction for kidnapping
• Thad Roberts – former NASA intern who stole and attempted to resell the collection of Apollo program Moon rocks valued at $21 million^[7]
• Nadir Soofi – Islamic extremist who attacked officers with gunfire at the entrance to an exhibit featuring cartoon images of Muhammad at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas, on May 3, 2015.

Notable faculty

Economics and political science

• Dean Baker (born 1958) - macroeconomist
• Russell W. Belk – professor of business administration and expert in art consumer and collector behavior
• Virginia Cutler – served on the White House Consumer Committee, as technical advisor in home economics education for the US International Cooperation Administration and the Point Four Program; dean of the home economics department; developed the home science program at the University of Ghana
• E. K. Hunt – Emeritus Professor of Economics; expert on political economy; author of History of Economic Thought: A Critical Perspective
• Minqi Li – renowned political economist
• Patrick Shea – professor of political science, biology, and lawyer noted for taking on cases related to freedom of the press, represented the Massachusetts Democratic Party in seeking to gain enough information to exclude Mitt Romney from running for governor in Massachusetts, was included in Brent Jeffs's legal counsel in the sexual molestation suit against Warren Jeffs, chairman of the Utah Democratic Party, and served as national director of the Bureau of Land Management

Social and behavioral sciences

• Lisa M. Diamond – developmental psychologist noted for her work in sexual orientation development, sexual identity and bonding
• Ed Diener – social psychologist who pioneered the field of subjective well-being

Sports

• Greg Marsden – current coach of the women's gymnastics team coach marsden retired 2015
• Kyle Whittingham – current coach of the football team

Other

• Maud Babcock – first female member of the university's faculty
• E. Keith Eddington – artist and graphic designer
• Joseph F. Merrill – first native Utahn to receive a PhD, first principal of the College of Engineering, and creator of the LDS Institutes of Religion program
• Yehua Dennis Wei - Professor of Geography

University presidents

See main article: article and University of Utah presidents.

See also

• University of Utah
• University of Utah College of Engineering
• University of Utah School of Medicine
• David Eccles School of Business
• S.J. Quinney College of Law

Notes and References

1. Web site: The ARPANET Project. Marriott Library. The University of Utah. 4 September 2017. en.
2. Book: Rivlin. Robert. The Algorithmic Image: Graphic Visions of the Computer Age. 1986. Harper & Row Publishers, Inc.. 978-0914845805.
3. Web site: Fast Facts . University of Utah . December 30, 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130111202450/http://www.obia.utah.edu/content/fastfacts.pdf . January 11, 2013 . mdy-all .
4. Web site: Fast Facts. Office of Budget and Institutional Analysis. The University of Utah. 4 September 2017.
5. Overton. Michael L.. Schnabel. Robert B.. Dedication. SIAM Journal on Optimization. January 1999. 9. 4. vii–viii. 10.1137/SJOPE8000009000004000vii000001.
6. News: U. to honor Piano Guys musician, professor. https://web.archive.org/web/20151025131941/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865625851/U-to-honor-Piano-Guys-musician-professor.html?pg=all. dead. October 25, 2015. Deseret News. April 6, 2015.
7. Web site: The Case of the Stolen Moon Rocks. FBI. 3 June 2017. en-us. 18 November 2003.