April 5, 2022 Lia Merminga, an internationally renowned physicist and scientific leader, has been appointed to lead Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, effective April 18, 2022. Dr. Merminga will... Read More
Nigel Lockyer to step down as Fermilab director The Fermi Research Alliance, a partnership of the University of Chicago and Universities Research Association that manages the Fermi National... Read More
August 10, 2021 Universities Research Association, Inc. (URA), a consortium of more than 90 leading research universities responsible for the management and operation of research facilities in the... Read More
August 5, 2021 | Mary Magnuson With both an engineering and particle physics background, Zhicai Zhang digs through data from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider while also working on upgrades for the... Read More
August 9, 2021 | Mary Magnuson The U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory is a global leader in neutrino science, with cutting-edge experiments on the horizon like the... Read More
At its February 11, 2021 Annual Meeting and Policy Forum, the URA Council of Presidents welcomed Dr. Gary S. May, Chancellor of the University of California, Davis, as its 2022 Chair. An... Read More
Universities Research Association (URA) welcomes David R. Schultz as the new director of the URA Sandia Site Office (USSO) at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and a member of... Read More
August 12, 2020 | Allen Zeyher Javier Tiffenberg The tiniest of kicks forms the subject of the latest Universities Research Association Early Career Award. The kick is the recoil of an electron from... Read More
August 11, 2020 | Steve Koppes Adi Ashkenazi Postdoctoral scientist Adi Ashkenazi of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has earned the Universities Research Association 2020 Tollestrup Award... Read More
August 10, 2020 | Zack Savitsky David Sweigart Drawn to physics by his desire to understand how things work, postdoctoral researcher David Sweigart of Cornell University now helps test the most... Read More