Appendix 3
Abbreviations
AAAS | American Association for the Advancement of Science | AMA | American Management Association | ARPA | Advanced Research Projects Agency | A&M | Agricultural and Mechanical | A-21 | Office of Management and Budget document, "Cost Principles for Educational Institutions" | CAREER | Faculty Early Career Development Program | DOE | Department of Energy | EPSCOR | NSF’s Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research | FY | Fiscal Year | GDP | Gross Domestic Product | GOALI | NSF’s Grant Opportunities for Academia Linking with Industry | IBM | International Business Machines | M | Million | MIT | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | MITI | Japanese Ministry for International Trade and Industry | MTV | Music Television | NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | NIH | National Institutes of Health | NRC | National Research Council | NSB | National Science Board | NS&E | Natural Science and Engineering | NSF | National Science Foundation | OMB | Office of Management and Budget | OPEC | Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries | PPG | Pittsburgh Plate Glass | R&D | Research and Development | RO-I | An NIH code for investigator-initiated small grants | RU-I | Research University, Category I (Carnegie Classification) | S&E | Science and Engineering | SSC | Superconducting Super Collider | S&T | Science and Technology | UC | University of California | UG | Undergraduate | UM | University of Michigan |