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Glossary of Terms and Acronyms

Notice of Funding Opportunity

Notice of Funding Opportunity or NOFO is sometimes also known as Funding Opportunity Announcement  or FOA NIH Definition “A publicly available document by which a Federal…

NRC

Nuclear Regulatory Commission

NRSA

National Research Service Award

NSF

National Science Foundation

NSPIRES

NASA Solicitation and Proposal Integrated Review and Evaluation System

NTTEE-NPC

National Center for Charitable Statistics Codes (ARRA)

OAW

Office of Animal Welfare (UW) See UW Office of Animal Welfare

OCR

HHS Office for Civil Rights https://www.hhs.gov/ocr/index.html

OER

Office of Extramural Research (NIH)

OFDI

Originating Depository Financial Institution (refers to ACH)