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PA

Program Announcement

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PAC

Post-Award Change (SAGE, SPAERC, SERA)

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PAFCO

Post Award Fiscal Compliance Office

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PAN

Pre-Award Notification

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PAPPG

NSF’s Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide current PAPPG version effective 1/30/2023.    

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Participant Support

Direct costs for stipends or subsistence allowances, travel allowances, and registration fees paid to or on behalf of participants or trainees (but not employees) in connection…

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Pass-Through Entity

Entity that provides a subaward to a subrecipient to carry out a portion of the prime award.  Related Resources Subaward Subrecipient Prime Award GIM 7: Sponsored…

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PC

Program Coordinator

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PDF

Portable Document Format

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PE

Partially Executed

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Period of Performance

Time during which the awardee is expected to complete award activities and to incur and expend approved funds, typically indicated by the start & end date…

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permission (parental)

The agreement of parent(s) or guardian to the participation of their child or ward in research.

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PHS

Public Health Service

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PI

Principal Investigator See Principal Investigator (PI) Personnel

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PIT

Process Improvement Team (UW)

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PMC

PubMed Central

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PMCID

PubMed Central reference number (PMCID) unique identifier for articles archived in PubMed Central in compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy (mandatory compliance effective April 7)

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PMID

PubMed unique identifier (PMID) assigned to each article as it is added to PubMed (will not meet the NIH guidelines)

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PMS

Payment Management System (Federal draw down system)

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PO

Purchase Order

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