Historically Black Colleges and Universities/Minority Education Institutions (HBCU/MEI) Council
What America’s historically black colleges and universities and minority-serving education institutions may lack in material resources for scientific research they more than make up for in talent, ingenuity and expertise. Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) recognizes these capabilities and places a high priority on building relationships between these schools and some of the larger laboratories and research universities in America.
Among the full complement of ORAU member institutions are 18 universities that comprise the Historically Black Colleges and Universities/Minority Education Institutions (HBCU/MEI) Council.
Members of the HBCU/MEI Council are all engaged in leading-edge science and technology, and its members are recognized as competitive and strategic business partners.
Those capabilities have been recognized by the Ewing M. Kauffman Foundation, a Kansas City-based philanthropic organization dedicated to entrepreneurship and education. Beginning in 2005, the Kauffman Foundation has partnered with the HBCU/MEI Council to provide the tools required for transferring technology developed at HBCU/MEI member institutions to private industry.
Below is a list of the schools that are members of ORAU's HBCU/MEI Council, including the faculty member that serves as each university's representative on the council and each school's chief research officer.
| University | Councilor | Chief Research Officer |
| Alabama A&M University | Chandra Reddy | Daryush Ila |
| Clark Atlanta University | Ronald Mickens |
Marcus Shute |
| Fisk University | Enrique Silberman |
Warren Eugene Collins |
| Florida International University | George E. Dambach | same |
| Howard University | Orlando Taylor |
same |
| Wayne Patterson* | ||
| Jackson State University | Felix A. Okojie |
same |
| Johnson C. Smith University | Phyllis Worthy Dawkins |
Magdy Attia |
| Meharry Medical College | Lee E. Limbird |
same |
| Morehouse College | Robert M. Franklin |
Obie Clayton |
| Morgan State University | Earl S. Richardson | same |
| New Mexico State University | Vimal Desai Chaitanya | same |
| North Carolina A&T State University | N. Radhakrishnan (Radha) |
same |
| Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico | Houssain E. Kettani | same |
| Tennessee State University | Lonnie Sharpe, Jr. |
E. Maria Thompson |
| Tuskegee University | Shaik Jeelani | same |
| University of Miami | Helena M. Solo-Gabriele | Norman H. Altman |
| University of New Mexico | David J. Schmidly | Julia Fulghum |
| University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez | David Suleiman | Andres Calderon |
| University of Puerto Rico San Juan | Manuel Gomez |
same |
| University of Texas at San Antonio | Ricardo Romo | same |
| Virginia State University | Ali Ansari | same |
| *Representative and Council Vice-Chair | ||
