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University of Wyoming
University of Wyoming (UW), the land-grant public university in Laramie and Wyoming's only four-year public university. 10,819 fall 2025 enrollment; $193 million FY25 research expenditures; record $101.9 million FY2026 fundraising.
University of York
University of York: public research university in York, England, chartered 1963, opened with 230 students under Baron James of Rusholme; collegiate campus university with 11 colleges, 500 acres of green space, and three faculties.
University of Zagreb
University of Zagreb (Sveučilište u Zagrebu), Croatia's oldest and largest public university, founded 1669 by Leopold I, refounded 1874; 31 faculties, 3 academies, ~72,480 students, rector Stjepan Lakušić.
University of Zurich
The University of Zurich (Universität Zürich, UZH) is a public research university in Zurich, Switzerland, founded in 1833 and, with over 28,000 students, the largest in Switzerland.
University Physics (Sears and Zemansky)
University Physics is a calculus-based introductory physics textbook first published in 1949 by Sears and Zemansky, now in its 16th edition under Hugh Young and Roger Freedman.
University physics student societies
University physics student societies, often called PhySoc, are student-run campus organizations for physics students, combining academic talks, tutoring, outreach, and social life; the US model is the Society of Physics Students.
University press
A university press is a nonprofit scholarly publisher affiliated with a university that publishes scholarly, intellectual, or creative work, with profits returned to the university; the first American press was founded at Cornell in 1869.
University press journal publishing programmes
University press journal publishing programs are the journal portfolios of nonprofit presses owned by or affiliated with universities, from small library-run open access presses to large service publishers like Chicago and Duke.
University Rover Challenge
The University Rover Challenge is an annual international robotics competition for college students, run by The Mars Society since 2006 at a Mars-analog desert site near Hanksville, Utah.
University Teaching Hospital
University Teaching Hospital (UTH), Lusaka, Zambia: national tertiary referral hospital, largest public hospital, founded 1910 as Lusaka Hospital, five specialised hospitals since 2016, hosts UNZA medical school.
University Ventures
University Ventures was a New York venture capital firm focused on higher education, founded in 2011, which raised two funds totaling about $238 million before moving under the Achieve Partners name.
University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System
The University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System, or UNOLS, is a consortium of 61 academic institutions that coordinates access to the U.S. Academic Research Fleet, founded in 1971.
Univision
Univision, the Spanish-language television network renamed from the Spanish International Network in 1987, is the most-watched Spanish-language network in the United States and the flagship of TelevisaUnivision.
UniVista
UniVista (合见工软), formally Shanghai UniVista Industrial Software Group, is a Shanghai-based Chinese developer of electronic design automation and industrial software, founded by ex-Synopsys and Cadence staff and pursuing an IPO.
UniVLA
UniVLA is an open vision-language-action framework from OpenDriveLab that learns generalist robot policies by extracting latent actions from unlabelled videos, presented in May 2025 and accepted to RSS 2025.
Univocity of being
Univocity of being: John Duns Scotus's thesis that 'being' (ens) has one single concept or sense for God, creatures, substances, and accidents, opposed to Aquinas's analogy of being, later taken up by Deleuze.
Unix
Unix, also known as the UNIX operating system, is a multi-user, time-sharing operating system created in 1969 at AT&T Bell Labs by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie.
Unix domain socket
A Unix domain socket, also called a Unix socket, is an endpoint for interprocess communication between programs running on the same machine, addressed by a filesystem pathname.
Unix File System
The Unix File System (UFS) is a disk-based file system descended from the Berkeley Fast File System of 1983, and remains FreeBSD's primary native file system in its UFS2 form.
Unix philosophy
The Unix philosophy is a set of software design principles from Bell Labs favoring small programs that each do one thing well, connected through text streams into pipelines.
Unix shell
A Unix shell is a command language interpreter that reads commands from a user or script and executes them, serving as both interactive tool and programming language.
Unix time
Unix time, also known as POSIX time or Epoch time, represents time as the number of seconds since 1 January 1970 UTC, ignoring leap seconds; a 32-bit form fails in 2038.
Unix-like
Unix-like describes operating systems that behave like Unix, the system created at Bell Labs in 1969, without certified UNIX status, and includes Linux, FreeBSD, Android, and macOS.
Unjamming transition
The unjamming transition is the shift of a dense, disordered system from a rigid, solid-like state into a flowing, fluid-like one, seen in granular materials, foams, and tissues.
Unjust enrichment
Unjust enrichment is a common law claim allowing a claimant to recover, by restitution, a benefit a defendant received at the claimant's expense in unjust circumstances.
Unjust vexation
Unjust vexation, under Article 287(2) of the Philippine Revised Penal Code, is a light, undefined catch-all offense penalizing acts that unjustifiably annoy or vex; punished by arresto menor or a P1,000 to P40,000 fine.
Unkei
Unkei (運慶) was a Japanese Buddhist sculptor who led the Kei school, served the Kamakura shogunate, and is best known for the towering Niō guardians at Tōdaiji, made in 1203.
Unkle
Unkle (UNKLE) is a British music project led by Mo' Wax founder James Lavelle, initially with DJ Shadow. Debut Psyence Fiction (1998) featured Thom Yorke and Richard Ashcroft; later albums include Never, Never, Land and War Stories.
Unknown (2011 film)
Unknown (2011), also released as Unknown Identity (Sans identité), is a Jaume Collet-Serra action-thriller starring Liam Neeson as Dr. Martin Harris, a Berlin coma patient whose identity has been stolen; it grossed $135.7 million worldwide on a $30 million budget.
Unknown (关于未知的我们)
Unknown (關於未知的我們) is a 2024 Taiwanese BL drama adapted from Priest's novel Da Ge, starring Chris Chiu and Kurt Huang as adoptive brothers Wei Qian and Wei Zhi-yuan; 12 episodes on Youku, February to April 2024.