About the University of Utah...

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Located in Salt Lake City, the heart of Utah's growing populace and economy, the University of Utah has a national reputation as an institution of opportunities. According to the National Science Foundation (NSF), it is ranked among the top 35 research institutions in the nation, with particular distinction in medicine and genetics. The University is listed with Stanford, MIT, Harvard and Cal Tech as having the most inventive research projects, and is a national leader in technology transfer, often the first in the number of inventions per million dollars expended for research. Federal agencies, private foundations and corporations seek out Utah scientists to conduct research and joint ventures. Research Park, 320 acres adjacent to the University, offers a unique opportunity for the 37 research companies and 35 university departments housed there to work together. The annual in-state productivity of park residents exceeds $500 million, $2 million from patents alone. A total of 43 high-tech companies have emerged from University research efforts. During the last year, the University received $195.1 million in research and student-aid funding from all external sources. The College of Science alone brought in a total of $20 million.

The University of Utah is the primary public higher education institution in the intermountain west, which stretches from the Rockies to the Sierras; an area covering more than 10 percent of the continental U.S. with a population of more than four million. The University of Utah Medical Center (School of Medicine and University Hospital) is the major research and health professions training center for the eight-state intermountain region. The new Huntsman Cancer Research Institute, together with the future cancer hospital, make the medical center a formidable oncological studies site. The School of Medicine enrolls 400 students, while some 2,000 students are in the other health sciences colleges. Approximately 700 research projects are conducted by the medical school's 720 faculty members.

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