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Universities Research Association

Formation	1965
Headquarters	Washington, D.C., United States
Location	United States Italy Japan United Kingdom
Membership	90
Council of Presidents, Chair	Garnett S. Stokes (2023)[1] President,University of New Mexico
President and CEO	John C. Mester[1]
Website	URA

TheUniversities Research Association (URA) is a non-profit association of more than 90research 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 thePresident's Science Advisory Committee and theNational Academy of Sciences to build and operateFermilab, aNational Accelerator Laboratory.

ThePresident's Science Advisory Committee and a sister group of theUnited States Atomic Energy Commission joined forces in 1962 to "assess the future needs in high-energy accelerator physics."^[2] The panel's recommendations, issued in 1963, included the need to immediately commence design and construction on 200GeVproton accelerators. An additional recommendation called for a new administrative construct.^[2]

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 theFermi 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 theCarnegie Institute of Technology, served as URA's first president.

URA has helped develop the Tevatron at Fermilab. Its early activities are related to theSuperconducting Supercollider, thePierre Auger Observatory, the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF), and the associatedDeep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), and involvement in the Honeywell International-led National Technology and Engineering Solutions at Sandia (NTESS) that manages and operatesSandia National Laboratories. Current major projects of the association include supporting Fermilab through a partnership with theUniversity of Chicago and coordinating U.S. support of the Pierre Auger Cosmic Observatory.

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