Universities Research Association

Universities Research Association
Formation	1965
Headquarters	Washington, D.C., United States
Location	United States
	Canada
	Italy
	Japan
	United Kingdom
Membership	89
Council Chair	Douglas Baker (President, Northern Illinois University)
Council Vice-Chair	Henry T. Yang (President, UC Santa Barbara)
Executive Director	Marta Cehelsky
Website	URA

The Universities Research Association, Inc. (URA) is a consortium of 89 leading research-oriented universities primarily in the United States, with members also in Canada, Japan, Italy, and the United Kingdom. The not-for-profit URA corporation was founded in 1965 for management and operation of research facilities in the national interest.

History and purpose

The URA was founded in 1965, under the directive of the U.S. Presidential Advisory Committee and the National Academy of Sciences. Its charter involves the management and operation of research facilities.^[1]

Between 1965 and 2007, URA was the prime contractor to the U.S. Department of Energy (and its predecessor organizations) for the creation and operation of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Batavia, Illinois. As of January 1, 2007, Fermilab is operated by the Fermi Research Alliance, LLC, a limited liability corporation with two members, the University of Chicago and Universities Research Association (URA). Fermilab is home to the Tevatron, which, until the recent initiation of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), was for many years the world's most important highest-energy accelerator for elementary particle physics research.^[1]

For the fiscal year 2010, Department of Energy funding for URA is approximately $400 million. National Science Foundation and NASA grant funding is about $1.0 million. Fermilab also received an additional one-time allocation of $114 million over FY 2009 and FY 2010 under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).^[1]

Organization

The corporation acts under the authority of its governing body, the Council of Presidents of its 89 member universities. A board of trustees appoints governing boards for each major research activity. The Washington headquarters office of URA coordinates the activities of the Council and boards. It is responsible for oversight and governance of the URA's enterprises and for corporate relations with the federal government, industry, academe, and the general public.^[1]

Membership

Below are the 89 members of the URA.^[1]

Domestic (83)

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 University of Colorado Boulder Colorado State University Connecticut Yale University Florida Florida State University University of Florida Illinois University of Chicago Illinois Institute of Technology University of Illinois at Chicago University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign Northern Illinois University Northwestern University

Indiana Indiana University University of Notre Dame Purdue University Iowa Iowa State University University of Iowa 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 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 The University of Texas at Austin Rice University Texas A&M University The University of Texas at Dallas The University of Texas at Arlington University of Houston University of North Texas Southern Methodist University Texas Tech University Virginia Virginia Tech University of Virginia College of William and Mary Washington University of Washington Wisconsin University of Wisconsin–Madison

International (6)

Canada

• McGill University
• University of Toronto

Italy

• University of Pisa

Japan

• Waseda University

United Kingdom

• University College London
• University of Manchester

See also

• List of higher education associations and alliances

References

1. http://www.ura-hq.org/about/index.html Universities Research Association, Inc

External links

• Official website