UW Research

Glossary of Terms and Acronyms

SIMS

Space Inventory Management System (UW)

Single IRB

This refers to a situation in which a single Institutional Review Board (IRB) is providing the review and oversight (i.e., is the IRB of record) for…

SO

Signing Official (eRA Commons)

Software

15 CFR 772 A collection of computer programs fixed in any tangible medium of expression. This includes system functional design, logic flow, algorithms, application programs, operating…

SOM

School of Medicine

SON

School of Nursing (UW)

Source Code and Object Code

15 CFR 772 Source code is generally understood to mean programming statements that are created by a programmer with a text editor or a visual programming…

SOW

Scope of Work

SPAERC

Sponsored Projects Administration & Electronic Research Compliance (UW system in the SAGE Suite used by OSP)

Specially Designated Nationals SDN

31 CFR 500.305 The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) publishes lists of “Specially Designated Nationals”, which are individuals and companies attempting to procure US-origin goods…