ORGANIZATION

"Universities Research Association is a consortium of 90 leading research-oriented universities primarily in the United States, with members also in Canada, Japan, and Italy... At the behest of President Lyndon Johnson's Science Advisory Committee and the National Academy of Sciences, the not-for-profit URA corporation was founded in 1965 for management and operation of research facilities in the national interest."

Official Website:
http://www.ura-hq.org/

Location:
Washington, DC

Founding Date:
1965

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Steven C. Beering	Educator	20-Aug-1932		President of Purdue, 1983-2000
Frederick M. Bernthal	Administrator	10-Jan-1943		President, Universities Research Association
Mark Emmert	Educator	16-Dec-1952		President, University of Washington
Robert W. Galvin	Business	9-Oct-1922	11-Oct-2011	CEO of Motorola, 1959-90
Susan Hockfield	Educator	24-Mar-1951		President of MIT
William H. Joyce	Business	c. 1935		CEO of Union Carbide, 1995-2001
Richard A. Meserve	Attorney	20-Nov-1944		President of the Carnegie Institution
Norman F. Ramsey	Physicist	27-Aug-1915	4-Nov-2011	Energy levels of atoms
H. Guyford Stever	Educator	24-Oct-1916	9-Apr-2010	President of CMU, 1965-72
Joe B. Wyatt	Educator	c. 1935		Chancellor of Vanderbilt University, 1982-2000

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