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| Formation | 1965 |
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| Headquarters | Washington, D.C., United States |
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| Membership | 90 |
| Council of Presidents, Chair | Garnett S. Stokes (2023) President, University of New Mexico |
| President and CEO | John C. Mester |
| Website | URA |
The Universities Research Association (URA) is a non-profit association of more than 90 research universities, primarily but not exclusively in the United States. It has members also in Japan, Italy, and the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1965 at the behest of the President's Science Advisory Committee and the National Academy of Sciences to build and operate Fermilab, a National Accelerator Laboratory.
History
The President's Science Advisory Committee and a sister group of the United States Atomic Energy Commission joined forces in 1962 to "assess the future needs in high-energy accelerator physics." The panel's recommendations, issued in 1963, included the need to immediately commence design and construction on 200 GeV proton accelerators. An additional recommendation called for a new administrative construct.
On January 17, 1965, the National Academy of Sciences addressed the last recommendation by sponsoring a meeting of presidents from 25 research universities to discuss the management of the accelerator facility that would later become the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab). The meeting eventually resulted in the decision to form the Universities Research Association, with 34 original members, to build and manage the new accelerator facility. URA filed its articles of incorporation on June 21, 1965. J. C. Warner, president of the Carnegie Institute of Technology, served as URA's first president.
Projects
URA has helped develop the Tevatron at Fermilab. Its early activities are related to the Superconducting Supercollider, the Pierre Auger Observatory, the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF), and the associated Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), and involvement in the Honeywell International-led National Technology and Engineering Solutions at Sandia (NTESS) that manages and operates Sandia National Laboratories. Current major projects of the association include supporting Fermilab through a partnership with the University of Chicago and coordinating U.S. support of the Pierre Auger Cosmic Observatory.
Members
United States
Alabama
Arizona
California
- California Institute of Technology
- University of California, Berkeley
- University of California, Davis
- University of California, Irvine
- University of California, Los Angeles
- University of California, Riverside
- University of California, San Diego
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Stanford University
Colorado
Connecticut
Florida
Georgia
Illinois
- University of Chicago
- Illinois Institute of Technology
- University of Illinois at Chicago
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Northern Illinois University
- Northwestern University
- Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maryland
Massachusetts
- Boston University
- Harvard University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Northeastern University
- Tufts University
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Nebraska
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
- University at Buffalo
- Columbia University
- Cornell University
- University of Rochester
- Rockefeller University
- Stony Brook University
- Syracuse University
North Carolina
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Pennsylvania State University
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Pittsburgh
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
- University of Houston
- University of North Texas
- Rice University
- Southern Methodist University
- Texas A&M University
- Texas Tech University
- University of Texas at Arlington
- University of Texas at Austin
- University of Texas at Dallas
Virginia
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
- University of Virginia
- College of William & Mary
Washington
Wisconsin
Italy
Japan
United Kingdom
References
- ^ "Governance". Universities Research Association. Archived from the original on July 4, 2021. Retrieved July 3, 2021.
- ^ ""Golden Books" - The Early History of URA and Fermilab". Fermilab. Batavia, Illinois. Retrieved December 16, 2024.