Acronyms
ACO | Animal Care Operations, an office core facility of the Division of Research |
ACP | Animal Care Protocol |
ACUP | Animal Care Use Program |
AMI | Advanced Manufacturing Institute (University Center) |
CBA | College Business Administrator |
CCL | Commerce Control List (also known as the Export Administration Regulations or EAR) |
CCME | Center for Carbon Management in Energy (University Center) |
CFR | Code of Federal Regulations |
CRA | College Research Administrator |
CITI | Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative, a human subjects research training program necessary for National Institutes of Health grant application, when applicable |
DBA | Division Business Administrator or Department Business Administrator |
DOR | Division of Research |
DOC | Indicates links to files that open as Microsoft Word documents. |
DUA | Data Use Agreement |
EAR | Export Administration Regulations (also known as the Commerce Control List or CCL) |
EHS | Environmental Health and Safety |
F&A | Facilities and Administration (Indirect Costs or IDC) |
FICA | Federal Insurance Contributions Act, usually referenced as it relates to the FICA tax on payroll |
GEAR | Grants to Enhance and Advance Research, a DOR internal award program |
HPE DSI | Hewlett Packard Enterprise Data Science Institute (University Center) |
HuRRI | Hurricane Resilience Research Institute (University Center) |
HRI | HEALTH Research Institute (University Center) |
IACUC | Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee |
IBC | Institutional Biosafety Committee |
ICON | Integrated Compliance Oversight Network, the IRB module for protocol submission |
IDC | Indirect Costs (e.g. F&A) |
IO | Institutional Official |
IRB | Institutional Review Board |
ITAR | International Traffic in Arms Regulations |
MAPP | Manual of Administrative Policies and Procedures |
MTA | Material Transfer Agreement |
MTDC | Modified Total Direct Cost |
NCURA | National Council of University Research Administrators |
OCG | Office of Contracts and Grants, an office of the Division of Research |
OFAC | U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control |
OGC | Office of the General Counsel |
OMB | Office of Management and Budget |
OTTI | Office of Technology Transfer and Innovation, an office of the Division of Research. |
PEAR | Programs for Excellence in Applied Research, a training system used by the Division of Research, particularly for the RACP course. |
PD | Program Director |
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PI | Principal Investigator |
RA | Research Administrator |
RIO | Research Integrity and Oversight (RIO) Office, an office in the Division of Research |
RSC | Research and Scholarship Committee, an advisory committee to the Division of Research, that exists as a branch of the Faculty Senate |
SAM | System Administrative Memoranda |
SGP | Small Grants Program, a DOR internal award program |
TcSUH | Texas Center for Superconductivity at UH (University Center) |
TIMES | Texas Institute for Measurement, Evaluation, & Statistics (University Center) |
TRIP | Texas Research Incentive Program, provides matching funds to assist in leveraging gifts to enhance research productivity and faculty recruitment |
UH | University of Houston |
UHCL | University of Houston – Clear Lake |
UHD | University of Houston – Downtown |
UHS | University of Houston System |
UHV | University of Houston – Victoria |
XLS | Indicates links to files that open as Microsoft Excel documents. |