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List of Institutions Affected
by the MFA Requirement
for NSF Research.gov

Check whether your campus already has MFA confirmed by reviewing the resource lists below.

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) recently announced it will require all users to sign into Research.gov with multifactor authentication (MFA) starting Sunday, October 27, 2024. The InCommon team has been in contact with NSF, and can confirm that for InCommon-enabled federated access to Research.gov, NSF will not immediately check for MFA at login. 

 InCommon Institutions Integrated with Research.gov

Action Needed: Contact NSF to Confirm MFA:

(As of Friday, October 18)

  • Angelo State University
  • Bucknell University
  • Cal Poly Humboldt
  • Children’s Mercy Kansas City
  • Desert Research Institute
  • Florida International University SSO
  • Franklin & Marshall College
  • Indiana University
  • Iowa State University
  • Lehigh University
  • Nevada System of Higher Education – SA/SCS
  • Northern Illinois University
  • Oakland University
  • Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education/OneNet
  • Oklahoma State University Main Campus
  • Pacific Lutheran University
  • Pomona College
  • Rockefeller University
  • South Dakota State University
  • Syracuse University
  • Truckee Meadows Community College
  • University of Alabama at Birmingham
  • University of Arkansas
  • University of Baltimore
  • University of California, Riverside
  • University of Hawaii
  • University of Nevada-Las Vegas
  • University of Rhode Island

No Action Needed: MFA has been confirmed:

(As of Friday, October 18)

  • Appalachian State University
  • Arizona State University
  • California Institute of Technology
  • California State University, East Bay
  • California State University, Long Beach
  • California State University, San Bernardino
  • Carnegie Mellon University
  • Case Western Reserve University
  • Clemson University
  • College of Southern Nevada
  • Colorado State University
  • Columbia University
  • Cornell University
  • Dartmouth College
  • Duke University
  • Duquesne University
  • Florida Atlantic University
  • Georgetown University
  • Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Harvard University
  • Indiana University of Pennsylvania
  • Institution
  • Internet2
  • Johns Hopkins
  • Lafayette College
  • Louisiana State University – AAD
  • Michigan State University
  • Mississippi State University
  • Montana State University
  • Nevada State University
  • New York University
  • North Carolina State University
  • North Dakota State University
  • Northwestern University
  • Ohio State University
  • Oregon State University
  • Penn State
  • Portland State University
  • Purdue University Main Campus
  • Rice University
  • Rochester Institute of Technology
  • Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
  • Stanford University
  • Swarthmore College
  • Temple University
  • Texas A&M University
  • Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
  • Texas Tech University
  • The State University of New York at Buffalo
  • The University of Arizona
  • The University of Memphis
  • The University of Montana
  • Tufts University
  • University of Alaska Statewide System
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • University of California, Davis
  • University of California, Irvine
  • University of California, Los Angeles
  • University of California, Santa Cruz
  • University of Central Florida
  • University of Chicago
  • University of Cincinnati Main Campus
  • University of Delaware
  • University of Florida
  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • University of Iowa
  • University of Kentucky
  • University of Maryland Baltimore County
  • University of Maryland College Park
  • University of Massachusetts – Dartmouth
  • University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • University of Michigan
  • University of Missouri System
  • University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  • University of Nevada, Reno
  • University of New Mexico
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • University of North Carolina at Greensboro
  • University of Oregon
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • University of South Dakota
  • University of South Florida
  • University of Tennessee
  • University of Texas at Dallas
  • University of Texas at San Antonio
  • University of Vermont
  • University of Washington
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  • University of Wyoming
  • Utah Valley University
  • Virginia Tech
  • Western Michigan University
  • Western Nevada College

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