Jacob Todd of the University of Cincinnati is the recipient of this year’s URA Graduate Thesis Award for his work on the Fermilab MINOS and MINOS+ neutrino experiments. The Universities Research... Read More
For her significant and varied impact on accelerator-based neutrino physics, Laura Fields has been given the URA Early Career Award. This new award recognizes outstanding work conducted by an... Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE EXECUTIVE APPOINTMENTS AT URA Washington, DC, January 7, 2019 – Universities Research Association (URA) is pleased to announce the appointment of two... Read More
From The New York Times: Leon Lederman, 96, Explorer (and Explainer) of the Subatomic World, Dies A Nobel laureate who deepened science’s understanding of the building blocks of matter, he was... Read More
Washington, DC, June 20, 2018 – Universities Research Association (URA) announces the establishment of a new award, the URA Early Career Award, recognizing outstanding work conducted by an... Read More
On June 13, 2018 a progress report on Innovation: An American Imperative was released. Many organizations, including URA, have worked to increase support for research in the Administration and... Read More
June 20, 2018 For his work on the Fermilab Mu2e experiment, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory physicist Richard Bonventre has earned the 2018 URA Tollestrup Award, which recognizes outstanding... Read More
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 hints of neutrino behavior that did not fit... Read More
Simon Samuroff’s research and participation on Dark Energy Survey (DES), presented in his Ph.D. thesis titled “Systematic Biases in Weak Lensing Cosmology with the Dark Energy Survey,” ... Read More
The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) announced today it has awarded National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia (NTESS) with the management and... Read More