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. |