Universities Research Association
Consortium of research-oriented universities and colleges
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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.
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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
- 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
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