Acronyms Used by the ORP

Acronym	Full Text	Context
AAALAC International	Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care International	private organization
AAHRPP	Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs, Inc.	private organization
AALAS	American Association for Laboratory Animal Science	private organization
AAMC	Association of American Medical Colleges	private organization
AAU	Association of American Universities	private organization
ABI	Animal, Biosafety and Isotopes areas of the ORP	Penn State
ACES	ACOR Certification and Education Series	Penn State
ACOR	Administrative Committee on Research	Penn State
AIAF (see also PIAF)	Awards Internal Approval Form (form used by OSP)	Penn State
ANPRM	Advanced Notice of Proposed Rule-Making	federal regulatory requirement
ARL	Applied Research Laboratory	Penn State
ARP	Animal Resource Program	Penn State
AVMA	American Veterinary Medical Association	private organization
AWA	Animal Welfare Act	federal
AWAR	Animal Welfare Act Regulations	federal
CDC	Centers for Disease Control	federal
CFR	Code of Federal Regulations	federal
CGS	Council of Graduate Schools	private organization
CITI	Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative	private organization
CIC	Committee on Institutional Cooperation	private organization
COI	Conflict of Interest	Penn State/general term
COIC	Conflict of Interest Committee	Penn State/general term
COIO	Conflict of Interest Official	Penn State/general term
COGR	Council on Governmental Relations	private organization
COM/HMC	College of Medicine/Hershey Medical Center	Penn State
CQI	Continuous Quality Improvement	Penn State/general term
CSR	Center for Survey Research at Harrisburg Campus	Penn State
CYFC	Children, Youth & Families Consortium	Penn State
DEP	Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection	commonwealth
DHHS	U.S. Department of Health and Human Services	federal
DOD	U.S. Department of Defense	federal agency
DOE	U.S. Department of Education	federal agency
DOT	U.S. Department of Transportation	federal agency
ECS	Eberly College of Science	Penn State
ECOS	Eberly College of Science	Penn State
EHS	Environmental Health and Safety	Penn State
EMS	College of Earth and Mineral Sciences	Penn State
EOC	Electro-Optics Center	Penn State
ESSIC	Employee Self-Service Information Center	Penn State
FAR	Federal Acquisition Regulation	federal regulation
FCOI	Financial Conflicts of Interest	general term
FERPA	Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act	federal
FDA	Food and Drug Administration	federal
FOCIA	Forum on Conflict of Interest in Academe	private organization through AAMC
FOIA	Freedom of Information Act	federal
GCRC	General Clinical Research Center	Penn State
GURU	General University Reference Utility	Penn State policy portal
HHD	College of Health and Human Development	Penn State
HHS	U.S. Department of Health and Human Services	federal
HIPAA	Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (often misspelled as HIPPA)	federal
HMC/COM	Hershey Medical Center/College of Medicine	Penn State
HP	Human Participants	general term
HRPP	Human Research Protections Program	general term
HS	Human Subjects	general term
HSPO	Human Subjects Protection Office – Hershey	Penn State
IACUC	Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee	Penn State/general term
IBC	Institutional Biosafety Committee	Penn State
IMAP	Institute on Medicine as a Profession	private organization
IP	Intellectual Property OR Innovation Park	general term OR Penn State
IPO	Intellectual Property Office	Penn State
IRB	Institutional Review Board	Penn State/general term
IRO	Industrial Research Office	Penn State
IST	College of Information Sciences and Technology	Penn State
ITS	Information Technology Services	Penn State
LA	College of Liberal Arts	Penn State
MPC	Multimedia Print Center	Penn State
MRI	Materials Research Institute OR Magnetic Resonance Imaging	Penn State OR general term
NHRPAC	National Human Research Protections Advisory Committee (deprecated)	federal
NIH	National Institutes of Health	federal
NRC	Nuclear Regulatory Commission	federal
NSF	National Science Foundation	federal
OBA	Office for Biotechnology Administration	federal
OHRP	Office of Human Research Protections	federal
OLAW	Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare	federal
ONR	Office of Naval Research	federal agency
ORA	Office of Research Affairs	Penn State/College of Medicine
ORI	Office of Research Integrity	federal
ORIS	Office of Research Information Services	Penn State
ORP	Office for Research Protections	Penn State
OSHA	Occupational Safety and Health Administration	federal
OSP	Office of Sponsored Programs	Penn State
PAR	Post-Approval Review	Penn State
PHI	Protected Health Information	general term
PHS	Public Health Service	federal
PIAF (see also AIAF)	Proposal Internal Approval Form (form used by OSP)	Penn State
PPRA	Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment	federal
PRI	Population Research Institute	Penn State
PRIM&R	Public Responsibility in Medicine & Research	private organization
PSIEE	Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment	Penn State
RA10	Research Administration Policy 10 (Research Misconduct)	Penn State
RCR	Responsible Conduct of Research	general term
RI	Research Integrity	general term
RP	Research Publications	Penn State
RTTO	Research and Technology Transfer Organization	Penn State
SACHRP	Secretary's Advisory Council for Human Research Protections	federal
SARI	Scholarship and Research Integrity	Penn State
SBIR (see also STTR)	Small Business Innovation Research	federal funding
SCAW	Scientists Center for Animal Welfare	private organization
SCC	Statistical Consulting Center	Penn State
SFID	Significant Financial Interest Disclosure	Penn State
SLEIC	Social, Life & Engineering Sciences Imaging Center	Penn State
SOP	Standard Operating Procedure	general term
SRC	Survey Research Center	Penn State
SRFC	Special Request for Check	Penn State
SSRI	Social Science Research Institute	Penn State
STTR (see also SBIR)	Small Business Technology Transfer	federal funding
SVPR	Senior Vice President for Research	Penn State
UECOIC	University Ethics and Conflict of Interest Committee	Penn State
UIC	University Isotopes Committee	Penn State
UP	University Park OR University Publications	Penn State
UR	University Relations	Penn State
URC	University Research Council	Penn State
USDA	United States Department of Agriculture	federal
VPR	Vice President for Research (deprecated, now SVPR)	Penn State