Universities Research Association

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Universities Research Association

Formation	1965
Headquarters	Washington, D.C., United States
Location	United States Italy Japan United Kingdom
Membership	90
Council of Presidents, Chair	Garnett S. Stokes (2023)[1] President, University of New Mexico
President and CEO	John C. Mester[1]
Website	URA

The Universities Research Association (URA) is a non-profit association of more than 90 research universities, primarily but not exclusively in the United States. It has members also in Japan, Italy, and the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1965 at the behest of the President's Science Advisory Committee and the National Academy of Sciences to build and operate Fermilab, a National Accelerator Laboratory.