A research university is a university that expects all its tenured and tenure-track faculty to continuously engage in research, as opposed to merely requiring it as a condition of an initial appointment or tenure.
 Such universities can be recognized by their strong focus on innovative research and the prestige of their brand names.
 On the one hand, research universities strive to recruit faculty who are the most brilliant minds in their disciplines in the world, and their students in theory enjoy the opportunity to learn from such experts.
 On the other hand, new students are often disappointed to realize their undergraduate courses at research universities are overly academic and fail to provide vocational training with immediate "real world" applications; but many employers value degrees from research universities because they know that such coursework develops fundamental skills like critical thinking.
The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD or UT Dallas) is a public research university in the University of Texas System.
 The main campus is in the Richardson, Texas, Telecom Corridor, 18 mi north of downtown Dallas.
 The institution, established in 1961 as the Graduate Research Center of the Southwest and later renamed the Southwest Center for Advanced Studies (SCAS), began as a research arm of Texas Instruments.
 In 1969, the founders bequeathed SCAS to the state of Texas officially creating The University of Texas at Dallas.
The University of Saskatchewan (U of S) is a Canadian public research university, founded in 1907, and located on the east side of the South Saskatchewan River in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
 An "Act to establish and incorporate a University for the Province of Saskatchewan" was passed by the provincial legislature in 1907.
 It established the provincial university on April 3, 1907 "for the purpose of providing facilities for higher education in all its branches and enabling all persons without regard to race, creed or religion to take the fullest advantage".
 The University of Saskatchewan is the largest education institution in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.
 The University of Saskatchewan is one of Canada’s top research universities (based on the number of Canada Research Chairs) and is a member of the U15 Group of Canadian Research Universities (the 15 most research-intensive universities in Canada).
Northwestern University (NU) is a private research university based in Evanston, Illinois, with other campuses located in Chicago and Doha, Qatar, and academic programs and facilities in Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, California.
The Russell Group is a self-selected association of twenty-four public research universities in the United Kingdom.
 The group is headquartered in London and was established in 1994 to represent its members' interests, principally to government and parliament; nineteen smaller British research universities formed the 1994 Group in response, which was disbanded in 2013.
 In 2010, Russell Group members received approximately two-thirds of all university research grant and contract income in the United Kingdom.
 The group is widely perceived as representing the best universities in the country.
Reginald Gibbons (born 1947) is an American poet, fiction writer, translator, literary critic, and Professor of English and Classics at Northwestern University and Director of the Center for the Writing Arts there.
 Gibbons has published numerous books, as well as poems, short stories, essays and reviews in journals and magazines, has held Guggenheim Foundation and NEA fellowships in poetry and a research fellowship from the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington D.C.
 He has won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Carl Sandburg Prize, the Folger Shakespeare Library's O. B. Hardison, Jr.
 Poetry Prize, and other honors, among them the inclusion of his work in "Best American Poetry" and "Pushcart Prize" anthologies.
 His book "Creatures of a Day" was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award for poetry.
 He attended public school in Spring Branch (at that time, outside Houston, Texas; now incorporated into the city), Princeton University (BA Spanish and Portuguese), and Stanford University (MA in English and Creative Writing; PhD in Comparative Literature).
 Before moving to Northwestern University, he taught creative writing at Princeton and Columbia.
 At Northwestern, he was the editor of "TriQuarterly" magazine from 1981 to 1997, and co-founded TriQuarterly Books (after 1997, an imprint of Northwestern University Press).
 As the editor of "TriQuarterly", he edited or co-edited the special issues "Chicago" (1984), "From South Africa: New Writing, Photography and Art" (1987), "A Window on Poland" (1983), "Prose from Spain" (1983), "New Writing from Mexico" (1992), and others, as well as many general issues of the magazine.
 He edited two works of William Goyen (1915-1983): the 50th Anniversary edition of "The House of Breath" and the Goyen's posthumously published second novel, "Half a Look of Cain" (both published by Northwestern University Press).
 In 1989, he was one of a group of co-founders of the Guild Literary Complex (Chicago), a literary presenting organization, where he continues to volunteer, and he is a member of the large team that is creating the American Writers Museum (Chicago; opening in 2017).
The Baylor Research and Innovation Collaborative (BRIC) is the flagship project for the Central Texas Technology and Research Park, an initiative by organizations and higher educational institutions in Central Texas to develop, promote and market science and engineering technologies, university research and advanced technology training and workforce development.
 Originally a General Tire manufacturing facility, the BRIC building and surrounding area will be completely renovated to provide a facility with a unique blend of university research, industry, workforce development and training, public symposia and business start-up support space.
The Northwestern University Archives, established in 1935, holds thousands of cubic feet of material pertaining to every aspect of the history of its host institution, Northwestern University.
 The University Archives serves as the repository for both non-current official Northwestern University records and a wide variety of other material including the papers of individual faculty members, the records of student organizations, holdings which pertain to individual students and alumni, photographs, and artifacts.
 The University Archives' holdings are open for research and reference use and are non-circulating.
This list of Northwestern University buildings encompasses the two campuses of Northwestern University: Evanston, Illinois and Chicago, Illinois.
 The Evanston site has approximately 150 buildings on its 240 acre campus.
 Many of these buildings are located on the Northwestern University Lakefill.
 The downtown Chicago campus, of approximately 25 acre , is home to the Feinberg School of Medicine and Northwestern University School of Law.
The International Research Universities Network (IRUN), initiated in 2006 by Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands, was officially founded during a meeting in September 2007 in Nijmegen.
 Representatives from each of the network’s nine founding partner universities signed the IRUN Charter.
 IRUN currently represents eight European countries and is expected to grow in numbers of universities, countries and world regions represented.
 All universities currently in the network are research universities: their teaching efforts are predicated on the vigour and quality of their own research programmes and recent international scientific developments.
 It is the goal of IRUN that all research produced by the partners is pioneering and innovative.

Question: Are University of Texas at Dallas and Northwestern University research universities?
Answer: yes