Associated Universities, Inc.

Associated Universities, Inc. was founded in 1946 as the interuniversity corporation to administer Brookhaven National Laboratory. Participating universities included Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, University of Rochester, and Yale. Their objective was to create a multidisciplinary research institution, a primary purpose of which would be to provide, with the financial support of the Federal Government, facilities for basic research in the nuclear and related sciences.