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DOE funds URA member universities for high energy physics research
Jul 25, 2022
Department of Energy, High Energy Physics
July 25, 2022 Washington — Department of Energy awards $78 million in high energy physics research to 44 universities including 30 members of the Universities
URA President John Mester serves as panelist at the National Science, Technology and Security Roundtable hosted by the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine
Jun 30, 2022
Science Policy
June 30, 2022 Washington, D.C. – President Dr. John Mester spoke at GUIRR roundtable hosted by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM)
Dr. Lia Merminga testifies for House Subcommittee on Energy
Jun 22, 2022
Science Policy
Washington, D.C. — Dr. Lia Merminga, Director of Fermi National Accelerator and Laboratory speaks before the House Subcommittee on Energy June 22. Four other witnesses
Universities Research Association 2022 Honorary Awards
Jun 15, 2022
Fermilab
June 15, 2022 BATAVIA, ILL. — The Universities Research Association Inc. (URA) URA’s 2022 Honorary Awardees on June 15 during the Annual Fermilab Users Meeting.
Big boost for Fermilab’s short-baseline neutrino experiments
Jun 14, 2018
Fermilab
For more than a decade, the particle physics community has faced a perplexing puzzle: two experiments, LSND at Los Alamos and MiniBooNE at Fermilab, found
NNSA Awards Sandia National Laboratories Management & Operating Contract to National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia (NTESS)
Mar 7, 2017
Fermilab, Press Release
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) announced today it has awarded National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia (NTESS)
Alex Drlica-Wagner wins 2016 URA Tollestrup Award
Aug 16, 2016
Fermilab
For his work on the Dark Energy Survey, Alex Drlica-Wagner has earned the 2016 URA Tollestrup Award, which recognizes outstanding postdoctoral research at Fermilab or in
Visiting Scholars Spotlight
The Visiting Scholars Spotlight is a series that features Visiting Scholars Program (VSP) Awardees and highlights their experience throughout the Program. VSP is a Universities Research Association scholarship awarded to students of our member institutions to work at Fermilab. To find out more click here.
URA in the News
Weekly clippings of news related to URA. Categories include URA Member Institutions, Science Policy and Governance, Research, and Of Interest. Previous news clippings can be found below, story hyperlinks embedded in file.