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List of Recognized American Institutions of Research and Other Recognized Organizations

The following is a list of the recognized American institutions of research, public international organizations, and designations under the International Immunities Act as of April 6, 2011.

A USCIS AIR Number is assigned to the list of American institutions of research. Each primary organization and its entities and affiliates have a designated USCIS AIR Number. The primary organization is denoted with a ‘*’ in the below list.

USCIS AIR NUMBERRecognized American Institutions of Research
AIR0000001

African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF - USA).

http://www.amref.org/

AIR0000002

Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (only in relationship to its research programs).

https://einsteinmed.org/

AIR0000003American Friends of the Middle East, Inc.
AIR0000004American Institutes of Research in the Behavioral Sciences (only in relationship to research projects abroad).
AIR0000005American Universities Field Staff, Inc.
AIR0000006

American University, The, Cairo, Egypt.

https://www.aucegypt.edu/

AIR0000100

American University of Armenia

https://aua.am/

AIR0000007American University of Beirut (Near East College Associations).
AIR0000008

Arctic Institute of North America, Inc.

http://www.arctic.ucalgary.ca/

AIR0000009

Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology.

http://www.iit.edu/research/

AIR0000010

Asia Foundation, The (formerly Committee for a Free Asia, Inc.).

https://asiafoundation.org/

AIR0000011

Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA, Inc.), Tucson, Arizona.

http://www.aura-astronomy.org/membership.asp?memberType=institutions

AIR0000012Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission.
AIR0000099

Baylor College of Medicine

www.bcm.edu

AIR0000013Beirut University College.
AIR0000014Bermuda Biological Station for Research, Inc.
AIR0000015

Bernice P. Bishop Museum of Polynesian Antiquities, Ethnology and Natural History at Honolulu, Hawaii.

https://www.bishopmuseum.org/

AIR0000016Brookhaven National Laboratory Associated Universities, Inc.
AIR0000017

Brown University (Department of Engineering), Providence, R.I.

http://www.brown.edu/academics/engineering/

AIR0000018Buffalo Eye Bank and Research Society, Inc.
AIR0000019Burma Office of Robert N. Nathan Associates, Inc.
AIR0000020

California State University at Long Beach, Department of Geological Sciences.

http://www.csulb.edu/colleges/cnsm/departments/geology/

AIR0000021

Carleton College (Department of Sociology and Anthropology), Northfield, Minnesota.

http://apps.carleton.edu/curricular/soan/

AIR0000022

Center of Alcohol Studies, Laboratory of Applied Biodynamics of Yale University. Central Registry of Jewish Losses in Egypt.

http://world.yale.edu/

AIR0000023

College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin.

http://www.engr.wisc.edu/

AIR0000024

College of Medicine, State University of New York.

https://www.downstate.edu/education-training/college-of-medicine/index.html

AIR0000025

Colorado State University (Research Foundation), Fort Collins, Colo.

https://www.colostate.edu/

AIR0000026

*Colorado University (International Economic Studies Center), Boulder, Colo.

 http://www.colorado.edu/

AIR0000027

Columbia University (Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law) and (Faculty of Pure Science), New York, N.Y.

http://www.columbia.edu/

AIR0000028

Cornell University (International Agricultural Development, University of the Philippines-Cornell University Graduate Education Program).

http://www.cornell.edu/

AIR0000029

Dartmouth Medical School.

http://dms.dartmouth.edu/

AIR0000030

*Department of French, Department of Scandinavian Languages, and Department of Near Eastern Languages of the University of California, Berkeley, Calif.

http://www.berkeley.edu/

AIR0000031

Duke University.

http://www.duke.edu/

AIR0000032

Environmental Research Laboratory of the University of Arizona.

https://environmentalscience.cals.arizona.edu/

AIR0000095

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), Batavia, Illinois. [Approved October 19, 2011]

http://www.fnal.gov/

AIR0000033

Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Medford, Mass.

http://fletcher.tufts.edu/

AIR0000034

Ford Foundation, New York, N.Y.

http://www.fordfoundation.org/

AIR0000035

*Foundation for Aids Research, New York. [Approved February 8, 2011]

http://www.amfar.org/

AIR0000035

American Foundation for Aids Research (AMFAR), New York, Washington, D.C., Bangkok, Thailand. [Approved February 8, 2011]

https://www.amfar.org/?s=bangkok

AIR0000036

Free Europe, Inc. (formerly Free Europe Committee, Inc.; National Committee for a Free Europe (including Radio Free Europe)).

http://www.rferl.org/

AIR0000037

Georgetown University.

http://www.georgetown.edu/

AIR0000038

George Williams Hooper Foundation, San Francisco Medical Center, University of California, San Francisco, Calif.

http://www.ucsf.edu/

AIR0000039Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine, Inc., and its operating unit, the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory.
AIR0000040

Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science Division of the New School for Social Research, New York, N.Y.

http://www.newschool.edu/nssr/

AIR0000041

Harvard University (research and educational programs only).

http://www.harvard.edu/

AIR0000042

Harvard-Yenching Institute.

http://www.harvard-yenching.org/

AIR0000043

Humboldt State University, School of Natural Resources, Wildlife Management Department.

http://www.humboldt.edu/

AIR0000044

Indiana University at Bloomington, Indianapolis, South Bend, Northwest, Kokomo, Southeast, East, and Fort Wayne.

http://www.iub.edu/

AIR0000045

Iowa State University.

http://www.iastate.edu/

AIR0000046Institute for Development Anthropology, Inc.
AIR0000047

Institute of International Education, Inc.

http://www.iie.org/

AIR0000030

Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley, Calif.

http://www.berkeley.edu/

AIR0000048International Center for Social Research, New York, N.Y.
AIR0000049International Development Foundation, Inc.
AIR0000050International Development Services, Inc.
AIR0000051International Research Associates, Inc.
AIR0000030

Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies (formerly Stanford Center for Chinese Studies) in Taipei, Taiwan.

http://ieas.berkeley.edu/iup/

AIR0000052Iran Foundation, Inc., The.
AIR0000097

Johns Hopkins University

https://www.jhu.edu/

AIR0000053Kossuth Foundation, Inc., The, New York, N.Y.
AIR0000054

Louisiana State University.

http://www.lsu.edu/

AIR0000055

Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

http://web.mit.edu/

AIR0000056

Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.

http://www.msu.edu/

AIR0000057

Missouri Botanical Garden (research and educational programs only).

http://www.mobot.org/

AIR0000058Natural Science Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
AIR0000059New York Zoological Society.
AIR0000060

*New York University, New York. [Approved February 8, 2011]

http://www.nyu.edu/

AIR0000060

New York University Abu Dhabi Institute, United Arab Emirates. [Approved February 8, 2011]

http://nyuad.nyu.edu/

AIR0000061Paderewski Foundation, Inc.
AIR0000062

Peabody Museum of Natural History of Yale University.

http://peabody.yale.edu/

AIR0000063People to People Health Foundation, Inc., The (only in relationship to the scientific research activities that will be carried on abroad by the medical staff of the SS "Hope").
AIR0000064

Pierce College (in relationship to research by an instructor, Department of Psychology), Athens, Greece.

https://www.pierce.gr/en/

AIR0000065

Population Council, The, New York, N.Y.

http://www.popcouncil.org/

AIR0000066Radio Liberty Committee, Inc. (formerly American Committee for Liberation, Inc.; American Committee for Liberation of the Peoples of Russia, Inc.; American Committee for Liberation from Bolshevism, Inc.).
AIR0000067

Rockefeller Foundation.

http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/

AIR0000096Research Triangle Park
AIR0000068

Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey.

http://www.rutgers.edu/

AIR0000069

School of International Relations of the University of Southern California.

http://www.usc.edu/

AIR0000070

SIRIMAR (Societa Internazionale Recerche Marine) Division, Office of the Vice President for Research, Pennsylvania State University.

http://www.psu.edu/

AIR0000071

Social Science Research Council.

http://www.ssrc.org/

AIR0000072

Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI).

https://www.ukm.my/seri/

AIR0000073

*Stanford Electronic Laboratories, Department of Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.

http://www.stanford.edu/

AIR0000074

Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, Calif.

http://www.sri.com/

AIR0000073

Stanford University (the George Vanderbilt Foundation), Stanford, Calif.

http://www.stanford.edu/

AIR0000075

Syracuse University.

http://www.syr.edu/

AIR0000076

*Tulane University Graduate School.

http://tulane.edu/

AIR0000076

Tulane University Medical School.

http://tulane.edu/

AIR0000077

*University of Alabama.

http://www.ua.edu/

AIR0000077

University of Alabama Medical Center.

http://www.ua.edu/

AIR0000030University of California:
UC Berkeley
UC Davis
UC Irvine
UC Los Angeles
UC Merced
UC Riverside
UC San Diego
UC San Francisco
UC Santa Barbara
UC Santa Cruz
http://universityofcalifornia.edu/
AIR0000078

University of Chicago (as a participant in the International Cooperation Administration Program No. W - 74 only).

https://www.uchicago.edu/

AIR0000026

University of Colorado (Department of History), Boulder, Colo.

http://www.colorado.edu/

AIR0000079

University of Connecticut, College of Liberal Arts and Science (Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages).

http://www.uconn.edu/

AIR0000080

University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii.

http://www.hawaii.edu/

AIR0000081

University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, Austria - Illinois Exchange Program.

https://illinois.edu/

AIR0000082

University of Kansas, Office of International Programs.

http://www.ku.edu/

AIR0000083

University of La Verne (La Verne College of Athens).

https://laverne.edu/

AIR0000084

University of Michigan (School of Natural Resources), Ann Arbor, Mich.

http://www.umich.edu/

AIR0000085

University of Minnesota, Department of Plant Pathology (in relationship to research project abroad).

http://www1.umn.edu/twincities/index.php

AIR0000086University of Nebraska Mission in Colombia, South America.
AIR0000087

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

http://www.unc.edu

AIR0000088

University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana

http://nd.edu/

AIR0000089

University of Puerto Rico.

https://www.upr.edu/

AIR0000090

University of Washington (Department of Marketing, Transportation, and International Business) and (The School of Public Health and Community Medicine), Seattle, Wash.

http://www.washington.edu/

AIR0000091

Vanderbilt University [Includes College of Arts and Science, Blair School of Music, Divinity School, School of Engineering, Graduate School, Law school, School of Medicine, School of Nursing, Owen Graduate School of Management, Peabody College of Education and Human Development, the Medical Center, the Public Policy Center, and the Freedom Forum First Amendment Center], Nashville, Tennessee. [Approved April 6, 2011]

http://www.vanderbilt.edu/

AIR0000092

Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.

http://wayne.edu/

AIR0000093

Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc.

http://www.wennergren.org/

AIR0000094

Williams College, Economic Department, Williamstown, Mass.

http://www.williams.edu/

AIR0000095

Texas A&M University

http://dof.tamu.eduhttp://dof.tamu.edu

http://ifss.tamu.edu

AIR0000096

Middlebury College

http://www.middlebury.edu/

AIR0000097

Carnegie Mellon University

http://www.cmu.edu/student-affairs/

AIR0000098

Oklahoma State University

http://go.okstate.edu/

AIR0000099

Baylor College of Medicine

www.bcm.edu

AIR0000100

American University of Armenia

https://aua.am/

AIR0000101

Purdue University

http://www.purdue.edu

AIR0000102

St. Olaf College

http://wp.stolaf.edu

AIR0000103

The American Academy in Berlin

www.americanacademy.de

AIR0000104St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
AIR0000105

Tufts University

https://www.tufts.edu/

AIR0000106

Rice University

https://www.rice.edu/

AIR0000107

Virginia Commonwealth University

https://www.vcu.edu/

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