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Suggested Citation:"Appendix E Selected Acronyms." National Research Council. 2007. The National Science Foundation's Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers Program: Looking Back, Moving Forward. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11966.
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Selected Acronyms

AFOSR Air Force Office of Scientific Research

ARO Army Research Office

ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency

CHESS Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source

COSEPUP Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy

DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

DMR Division of Materials Research (National Science Foundation)

DOD Department of Defense

DOE Department of Energy

DURIP Defense University Research Instrumentation Program

EO education and outreach

ERC Engineering Research Center

FRG Focused Research Group

IDL Interdisciplinary Laboratory

IGERT Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship

IMR Instruments for Materials Research

IP intellectual property

IRG Interdisciplinary Research Group

ITR Information Technology Research

MCE Materials Center of Excellence

MPI Max Planck Institute

Suggested Citation:"Appendix E Selected Acronyms." National Research Council. 2007. The National Science Foundation's Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers Program: Looking Back, Moving Forward. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11966.
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MPS Mathematics and Physical Sciences (National Science Foundation)

MRG Materials Research Group

MRI Major Research Instrumentation

MRL Materials Research Laboratory

MRSEC Materials Research Science and Engineering Center

MRSEC program Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers program

MSE materials science and engineering

MSI minority-serving institution

MURI Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative

NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NIRT Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Team

NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology

NRC National Research Council

NRCEN National Research Center Educators Network

NSEC Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center

NSF National Science Foundation

NSTC National Science and Technology Council

NUE Nanoscale Undergraduate Education

OMB Office of Management and Budget

ONR Office of Naval Research

PI principal investigator

PREM Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials

RET Research Experiences for Teachers

REU Research Experiences for Undergraduates

RFP Request for Proposal

R&RA research and related activities

SEF shared experimental facilities

STC Science and Technology Center

STEM science, technology, engineering, and mathematics

TEM tunneling electron microscope

UARC University-Affiliated Research Center

URM underrepresented minorities

Suggested Citation:"Appendix E Selected Acronyms." National Research Council. 2007. The National Science Foundation's Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers Program: Looking Back, Moving Forward. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11966.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix E Selected Acronyms." National Research Council. 2007. The National Science Foundation's Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers Program: Looking Back, Moving Forward. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11966.
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