| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| HEAF |
Higher Education Assistance Fund |
| 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 |
| PDF |
Indicates links to files that open as Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat documents. |
| PI |
Principal Investigator |
| RA |
Research Administrator |
| RACP |
Research Administration Certification Program |
| 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. |