Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) was established in 1980 with 13 research universities as a consortium to bid on the construction of a national Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF). In 1983, SURA was selected by the Department of Energy to design, build, and operate the CEBAF. CEBAF was renamed in 1996 to Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab), a nuclear physics research lab in Newport News, Virginia. SURA operates the SURA Residence Facility, a 42 room guest house, to accommodate national and international researchers who come to Jefferson Lab. As of 2021, more than 60 universities are members of SURA. SURA also funds and is the primary home of the Center for Nuclear Femtography.[1]
Members
Member Universities[2]
| University of Alabama |
University of Alabama at Birmingham |
University of Alabama at Huntsville
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| Auburn University |
University of Arkansas |
University of Delaware
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| University of Central Florida |
University of Florida |
Florida Atlantic University
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| Florida Institute of Technology |
Florida International University |
Florida State University
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| University of Miami |
University of South Florida |
Clark Atlanta University
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| University of Georgia |
Georgia Institute of Technology |
Georgia State University
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| University of Louisiana at Lafayette |
Louisiana State University |
Louisiana Tech University
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| Tulane University |
University of Maryland |
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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| Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Mississippi State University |
University of Southern Mississippi
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| Duke University |
North Carolina A&T State University |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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| North Carolina State University |
University of Oklahoma |
Clemson University
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| University of South Carolina |
University of Tennessee |
Vanderbilt University
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| Rice University |
University of Texas at Austin |
Texas A&M University
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| Christopher Newport University |
George Mason University |
Hampton University
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| James Madison University |
Norfolk State University |
Old Dominion University
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| University of Richmond |
University of Virginia |
Virginia Commonwealth University
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| Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
Virginia State University |
College of William and Mary
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| Catholic University of America |
George Washington University |
Georgetown University
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| West Virginia University |
University of Regina
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Affiliate Members
Affiliate Member Universities[2]
| Florida LambdaRail |
Idaho State University |
University of North Florida |
Ohio University
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Company history with DOE
- 1983 - Selected to design, build, and operate the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility
- 1995 - Research begins at CEBAF
- 2004 - Partnered with CSC Applied Technologies, LLC (became PAE Applied Technologies in 2013) to form Jefferson Science Associates, LLC.
- 2006 - Jefferson Science Associates selected to manage and operate Jefferson Lab
- 2009 - Three-year contract extension awarded for good performance
- 2009 - $310 million 12 GeV upgrade project begins to double the power of JLab's electron beam accelerator
- 2017 - 12 GeV upgrade project complete
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