| ACO |
Animal Care Operations, a core facility of the Division of Research. |
| ACP |
Animal Care Protocol |
| ACUP |
Animal Care Use Program |
| AMI |
Advanced Manufacturing Institute |
| CACDS |
Center for Advanced Computing and Data Systems |
| CBA |
College Business Administrator |
| CCL |
Commerce Control List |
| CCME |
Center for Carbon Management in Energy |
| 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. |
| DAIT |
Data, Assessment and IT, an office of the Division of Research. |
| DBA |
Division Business Administrator or Department Business Administrator |
| DOR |
Division of Research |
| DOC |
Indicates links to files that open as Microsoft Word documents. |
| EAR |
Export Administration Regulations |
| EHLS |
Environmental Health and Life Safety |
| F&A |
Facilities and Administration (e.g. 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 competitive internal award. |
| HEAF |
Higher Education Assistance Fund |
| HPE DSI |
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Data Science Institute |
| HuRRI |
Hurricane Resilience Research Institute |
| HRI |
HEALTH Research Institute |
| 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) |
| IPC |
Intellectual Property Committee |
| IO |
Institutional Official |
| IP |
Intellectual Property |
| IRB |
Institutional Review Board |
| ITAR |
International Traffic in Arms Regulations |
| MAPP |
Manual of Administrative Policies and Procedures |
| 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 |
| PDF |
Indicates links to files that open as Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat documents. |
| PI |
Principal Investigator |
| RA |
Research Administrator |
| RAMP |
Research Administration Management Portal |
| RIO |
Research Integrity and Oversight (RIO) Office |
| 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 competitive internal award. |
| TcSUH |
Texas Center for Superconductivity at UH |
| TIMES |
Texas Institute for Measurement, Evaluation, & Statistics |
| 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. |