Universities Research Association


The Universities Research Association 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. 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, and the associated Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, and involvement in the Honeywell International-led National Technology and Engineering Solutions at Sandia 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

  • University of Alabama

    Arizona

  • Arizona State University
  • University of 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

  • Colorado State University
  • University of Colorado Boulder

    Connecticut

  • Yale University

    Florida

  • Florida State University
  • University of Florida

    Georgia

  • Georgia Institute of Technology

    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

  • Indiana University
  • University of Notre Dame
  • Purdue University

    Iowa

  • Iowa State University
  • University of Iowa

    Kansas

  • Kansas State University

    Kentucky

  • University of Kentucky

    Louisiana

  • Louisiana State University
  • Tulane University

    Maryland

  • Johns Hopkins University
  • University of Maryland, College Park

    Massachusetts

  • Boston University
  • Harvard University
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Northeastern University
  • Tufts University

    Michigan

  • Michigan State University
  • University of Michigan
  • Wayne State University

    Minnesota

  • University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

    Mississippi

  • University of Mississippi

    Missouri

  • Washington University in St. Louis

    Nebraska

  • University of Nebraska–Lincoln

    New Jersey

  • Princeton University
  • Rutgers University

    New Mexico

  • New Mexico State University
  • University of New Mexico

    New York

  • University at Buffalo
  • Columbia University
  • Cornell University
  • University of Rochester
  • Rockefeller University
  • Stony Brook University
  • Syracuse University

    North Carolina

  • Duke University
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Ohio

  • Case Western Reserve University
  • Ohio State University

    Oklahoma

  • University of Oklahoma

    Oregon

  • University of Oregon

    Pennsylvania

  • Carnegie Mellon University
  • Pennsylvania State University
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • University of Pittsburgh

    Rhode Island

  • Brown University

    South Carolina

  • University of South Carolina

    Tennessee

  • University of Tennessee
  • Vanderbilt University

    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

  • University of Washington

    Wisconsin

  • University of Wisconsin-Madison

    Italy

  • University of Pisa

    Japan

  • Waseda University

    United Kingdom

  • University College London
  • University of Edinburgh
  • University of Liverpool
  • University of Manchester