Editing University of Utah (section)

===Notable programs===
[[File:University of Utah Hospital in 2009.JPG|thumb|right|The [[University of Utah Medical Center]]]]
[[File:Saec univ of utah.jpg|thumb|right|The Sorensen Arts & Education Complex]]

====Ballet====
The Department of Ballet offers the top ranked ballet and ballroom dance program in the United States and is one of the oldest and most reputable university ballet departments in the country.<ref>{{cite web|title=Dance Schools Offering Ballet and Ballroom Programs|url=http://dance-colleges.com/ballet-and-ballroom|website=Dance Colleges|access-date=April 26, 2017|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170512075812/http://dance-colleges.com/ballet-and-ballroom|archive-date=May 12, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> The Department was founded by [[William F. Christensen]] in 1951, who also founded the [[San Francisco Ballet]] and [[Ballet West]] [[ballet company|companies]].<ref>{{cite web|title=University of Utah|url=http://www.theudancer.com/universities/university-of-utah|website=The UDancer|access-date=April 26, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170427104956/http://www.theudancer.com/universities/university-of-utah|archive-date=April 27, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>

====Biology====
The university has made unique contributions to the study of [[genetics]] due in part to long-term [[genealogy]] efforts of the [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|LDS Church]], which has allowed researchers to trace genetic disorders through several generations. The relative homogeneity of Utah's population also makes it an ideal laboratory for studies of population genetics.<ref name="genetics">{{cite web | last = Sussingham | first = Robin |author2=Stephanie Watson |author3=Jennifer Logan | year = 2006 | url = http://gslc.genetics.utah.edu/features/utah/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070219145225/http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/features/utah/index.cfm | archive-date=February 19, 2007 | title = Utah: A Gold Mine for Genetic Research | publisher = University of Utah | access-date =March 9, 2006}}</ref> The university is home to the Genetic Science Learning Center, a resource which educates the public about genetics through its website.<ref>{{cite web | title=Learn.Genetics | url=http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/ | publisher=Genetic Science Learning Center | access-date=May 18, 2009}}</ref>

====Computer Science====
[[File:Merrill Engineering Building, University of Utah.jpg|thumbnail|right|Merrill Engineering Building]]

The University of Utah was one of the original four nodes of [[ARPANET#Initial ARPANET deployment|ARPANET]], the world's first [[packet-switched network]] and embryo of the current worldwide Internet.<ref>{{cite web | last=Leiner | first=Barry M. | author2=Robert E. Kahn | author3=Jon Postel | title=A Brief History of the Internet | url=http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml | publisher=[[Internet Society]] | access-date=May 18, 2009 | archive-date=December 22, 2001 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011222202333/http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml | url-status=dead }}</ref> The [[University of Utah School of Computing|School of Computing]] produced many of the early pioneers in [[computer science]] and [[computer graphics|graphics]], including [[Turing Award]] winner [[Alan Kay]], [[Pixar]] founder [[Ed Catmull]], [[Atari]] founder [[Nolan Bushnell]], and [[Adobe Systems|Adobe]] founder [[John Warnock]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Rivlin|first1=Robert|title=The Algorithmic Image: Graphic Visions of the Computer Age|date=1986|publisher=Harper & Row Publishers, Inc.|isbn=978-0914845805|url=http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=27124}}</ref> Notable innovations of computer science faculty and alumni include the first method for representing surface textures in graphical images, the [[Gouraud shading]] model, magnetic ink printing technology, the Johnson counter [[logic circuit]], the oldest algebraic mathematics package still in use ([[REDUCE]]), the [[Phong reflection model]], the [[Phong shading]] method, and the [[rendering equation]].<ref>{{cite web |title=History of the School of Computing |url=http://www.cs.utah.edu/dept/history/ |publisher=University of Utah School of Computing |access-date=May 19, 2009}}</ref> Through the movement of Utah graduates and faculty, research at the University spread outward to laboratories like [[Xerox Parc]], [[JPL]], and the [[New York Institute of Technology]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Misa|first1=Thomas J.|title=Communities of Computing: Computer Science and Society in the ACM|date=2016|publisher=Association for Computing Machinery and Morgan & Claypool|isbn=9781970001877|url=http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2973856|access-date=April 27, 2017}}</ref> Present graphics research is focused on biomedical applications for [[visualization (graphics)|visualization]], [[scientific computing]], and [[image analysis]] at the [[Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Shneiderman|first1=Ben|title=The New ABCs of Research: Achieving Breakthrough Collaborations|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-875883-9|pages=320|year=2016}}</ref>

====Dentistry====
In March 2012, the university received unanimous approval from the board of trustees to create a new academic college, the School of Dentistry, which is the university's first new college in sixty years.<ref name="dailyutahchronicle.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.dailyutahchronicle.com/?p=2569777|title=''The Daily Utah Chronicle''&nbsp;– College of Dentistry Starts in Fall of 2013|access-date=May 1, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120427230151/https://www.dailyutahchronicle.com/?p=2569777|archive-date=April 27, 2012}}</ref> The new school has received funding for a new structure and has started as a debt-free program.<ref name="dailyutahchronicle.com" /> The new school enrolled its first students for the fall semester of 2013 and averages the same cost as the university's medical school tuition.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dailyutahchronicle.com/?p=2570672|title=The Daily Utah Chronicle&nbsp;– Dental School Receives Approval|access-date=May 1, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120428042226/https://www.dailyutahchronicle.com/?p=2570672|archive-date=April 28, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>

====Law====
[[File:Sjquinney law univ of utah.jpg|thumb|The S.J. Quinney College of Law]]

The [[S.J. Quinney College of Law]], founded in 1913,<ref>{{cite web|title=Law School Profile |url=http://www.law.utah.edu/prospective/profile/ |publisher=S.J. Quinney College of Law |access-date=May 18, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090312032804/http://www.law.utah.edu/prospective/profile/ |archive-date=March 12, 2009 }}</ref> was the only [[law school]] in Utah until the 1970s. The law school was ranked the #28 best law school in the country in the 2024 U.S. News "Best Law Schools" rankings.<ref>{{Cite web |title=2024 U.S. News Best Law Schools |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/law-rankings}}</ref>

====Medicine====
The University of Utah ([[University of Utah Hospital]]) has the only accredited allopathic [[medical school]] in the State of Utah.<ref name="aamc" /> The medical school has made several notable contributions to medicine, such as establishing the first [[cerebrovascular disease|Cerebrovascular Disease]] Unit west of the [[Mississippi River]] in 1970 and administering the world's first permanent artificial heart, the [[Jarvik-7]], to [[Barney Clark (patient)|Barney Clark]] in 1982.<ref>{{cite web | title=University Health Care Milestones | url=http://healthcare.utah.edu/about/milestones.htm | publisher=University of Utah Health Care | access-date=May 18, 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081226064522/http://healthcare.utah.edu/about/milestones.htm | archive-date=December 26, 2008 | url-status=dead | df=mdy-all }}</ref>

====Pharmacy====
The University of Utah College of Pharmacy is ranked 15th in the nation for NIH research grants as of 2023,<ref>{{cite web | title=2023 Year in Review | date=December 21, 2023 | url=https://uofuhealth.utah.edu/notes/2023/12/year-in-review | publisher=University of Utah Health| access-date=February 13, 2024}}</ref> and its PharmD program is ranked 14th in the nation.<ref>{{cite web | title=Best Pharmacy Schools | date=2020 | url=https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-health-schools/pharmacy-rankings | publisher=US News and World Report| access-date=February 13, 2024}}</ref> The department of Pharmacology and Toxicology within the School of Pharmacy is world-renowned for research in epilepsy treatment with their Anticonvulsant Drug Development (ADD) program.<ref>{{cite web | title=Information | url=http://pharmacy.utah.edu/pharmtox/ADD/info.html | publisher=ADD Program | access-date=February 13, 2024 | archive-date=July 12, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160712180022/http://pharmacy.utah.edu/pharmtox/ADD/info.html | url-status=dead }}</ref>

====Political Science====
The university is host to the Neal A. Maxwell Lecture Series in Political Theory and Contemporary Politics, a forum for political theorists to share their newest theoretical work,<ref>[http://poli-sci.utah.edu/maxwell-lecture-series.php Maxwell Lecture Series]. University of Utah</ref> and is home to the [[Hinckley Institute of Politics]], which places more than 350 students every year in local, state, national, and global internships.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hinckley.utah.edu/internships/|title=Opportunities for all students|website=Internships|publisher=The University of Utah|access-date=December 15, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222103710/http://www.hinckley.utah.edu/internships/|archive-date=December 22, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>

====Turkish Studies Program and Armenian genocide denial====
The university's Turkish Studies Program, funded by [[Turkish Coalition of America]] and headed by [[M. Hakan Yavuz]], has been criticized for promoting [[Armenian genocide denial]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Former U Student Calls Out U Professor For Denial of Armenian Genocide |url=https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2020/10/31/calls-for-u-political-science-professor-to-be-fired-after-denial-of-armenian-genocide/ |access-date=December 13, 2020 |work=The Daily Utah Chronicle |date=October 31, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hovannisian |first1=Richard G. |author1-link=Richard G. Hovannisian |title=Denial of the Armenian Genocide 100 Years Later: The New Practitioners and Their Trade |journal=Genocide Studies International |date=2015 |volume=9 |issue=2 |pages=228–247 |doi=10.3138/gsi.9.2.04|s2cid=155132689 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/690 }}</ref><ref name=":0">{{cite journal |last1=Mamigonian |first1=Marc A. |title=Academic Denial of the Armenian Genocide in American Scholarship: Denialism as Manufactured Controversy |journal=Genocide Studies International |date=2015 |volume=9 |issue=1 |pages=61–82 |doi=10.3138/gsi.9.1.04|s2cid=154623321 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/690 }}</ref> Nevertheless, the university had established itself as a "denialist beachhead" prior to the creation of the Turkish Studies Program.<ref name=":0" /> The [[University of Utah Press]] has published several books denying the [[Armenian genocide]], beginning with [[Guenter Lewy]]'s ''[[The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey]]''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Suny |first=Ronald Grigor |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oXGYDwAAQBAJ |title="They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide |date=2017 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-17596-6 |pages=375 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hovannisian |first=Richard G. |date=December 1, 2015 |title=Denial of the Armenian Genocide 100 Years Later: The New Practitioners and Their Trade |url=https://utpjournals.press/doi/10.3138/gsi.9.2.04 |journal=Genocide Studies International |volume=9 |issue=2 |pages=228–247 |doi=10.3138/gsi.9.2.04 |s2cid=155132689 |issn=2291-1847}}</ref> The book's publication by the University of Utah Press was arranged by Yavuz himself.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Mamigonian |first=Marc A. |date=March 1, 2015 |title=Academic Denial of the Armenian Genocide in American Scholarship: Denialism as Manufactured Controversy |url=https://utpjournals.press/doi/10.3138/gsi.9.1.04 |journal=Genocide Studies International |volume=9 |issue=1 |pages=61–82 |doi=10.3138/gsi.9.1.04 |s2cid=154623321 |issn=2291-1847}}</ref>

Professor [[Keith David Watenpaugh]] charges the program with "promoting the falsification of history through its grants and political advocacy... the University of Utah has provided an institutional home to genocide denial."<ref>{{cite news |date=June 7, 2013 |title=The Case Against Legitimizing Genocide Deniers: Scholars Speak Up |work=The Armenian Weekly |url=https://armenianweekly.com/2013/06/07/the-case-against-legitimizing-genocide-deniers-scholars-speak-up/ |access-date=December 13, 2020}}</ref> In 2020, regarding "a student complaint and messages of concern from the Armenian community about the content of an article written by and assigned in a class taught by Hakan Yavuz," the university made a statement, according to which: "The United States, the [[Utah|state of Utah]] and the University of Utah (as a state entity), recognize the historical events of 1915 as the Armenian genocide".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Statement regarding student complaint |url=https://attheu.utah.edu/university-statements/statement-regarding-student-complaint/ |access-date=November 12, 2022 |website=University of Utah Communications |language=en-US}}</ref>