URA NEWS RELEASE FEBRUARY 13, 2020 At its February 4, 2020 Annual Meeting and Policy Forum the URA Council of Presidents welcomed Dr. Wendy Wintersteen as its 2020 Chair. Dr. Wintersteen, a respected... Read More
Fermilab postdoc Guillermo Fernandez Moroni has received the Universities Research Association (URA) Tollestrup Award for “improving the scientific reach of the SENSEI experiment by three orders of... Read More
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