| ACEnet |
The regional organization representing the Atlantic provinces within the Compute Canada Federation (CCF) |
| ACS |
Animal Care Services |
| AE(s) |
Adverse Event(s) |
| ADR |
Associate Dean Research |
| AI |
Artificial intelligence |
| AMS |
Alma Mater Society |
| ARC |
Advanced Research Computing |
| ASUS |
Arts & Science Undergraduate Society |
| AUCC |
Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada |
| AUP |
Animal Use Protocol |
| AVPR |
Associate Vice Principal Research |
| BISC |
Bader International Study Centre (now called Bader College) |
| BPM |
TRAQ Business Process Meeting/resources/terms |
| BrainCODE |
The research platform supporting the Ontario Brain Institute (OBI) – developed by Indoc Research and supported by the CAC |
| CAC |
Centre for Advanced Computing – The regional organization representing Ontario within the Compute Canada federation – formerly known as HPCVL (name changed on April 1, 2016) (part of the VPR Portfolio) |
| Calcul Quebec |
The regional organization representing Quebec within the Compute Canada federation |
| CANARIE |
Canada’s Advanced Research and Innovation Network – provider of the optical network connecting the provincial networks |
| CARA |
Canadian Association of Research Administrators |
| CBG |
Cancer Biology and Genetics (part of QCRI; involved in laboratory based fundamental and translational research in cancer biology and genetics) |
| CBPR |
community-based participatory research |
| CC |
Compute Canada – a member based organization with the members being the universities and research hospitals across Canada who elect to pay an annual membership fee – members are users of ARC and HPC. CC officially ends on March 31, 2022 (see NDRIO). |
| CCE |
Cancer Care and Epidemiology (part of QCRI; a multidisciplinary health services research group with a mandate to study all aspects of cancer care delivery and cancer epidemiology) |
| CCF |
Compute Canada Federation |
| CCTG |
Canadian Cancer Trials Group (part of QCRI; houses the Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute's NCIC Clinical Trials Group) |
| CCV |
Common Curriculum Vitae (also Common CV) |
| CEC-REN |
Contaminants of Emerging Concern - Research Excellence Network (Part of Beaty Water Research Centre in Fac of Engineering) |
| CEO |
Chief Executive Officer |
| CERC |
Canada Excellence Research Chairs (federal program that provides up to $10M over 7 years to support world—renowned researchers and their teams) |
| CERU |
Clinical Evaluation Research Unit (Kingston, ON) |
| CFD |
Computational Fluid Dynamics |
| CFI |
Canada Foundation for Innovation (this is the federal granting agency that is associated with a large number of our programs) |
| CFI IF |
Canada Foundation for Innovation - Innovation Fund |
| CFI IOF |
Canada Foundation for Innovation - Infrastructure Operating Fund |
| CFI MSI |
Canada Foundation for Innovation - Major Science Infrastructure fund |
| CFI NPF |
Canada Foundation for Innovation - National Platform Fund |
| CFREF |
Canada First Research Excellence Fund (tri-agency initiative to assist Canadian post-secondary institutions in their efforts to become global research leaders) |
| CIHI |
CIHR – Canadian Institutes for Health Research (this is a federal tri-council program, which ORS deals with) |
| CIHR |
Canadian Institutes of Health Research |
| CIMVHR |
Canadian Institute for Military Veterans Health Research (located at Queen’s) |
| CIO |
Chief Information Officer |
| CL3 |
Containment level 3; a research facility designed to support research requiring biocontainment of potentially lethal microbes/viruses |
| CO |
Compute Ontario (includes SciNet, SharcNet, HPC4Health and CAC) |
| COI |
Conflict of interest |
| CORE |
Course on Research Ethics |
| CPARC |
Canadian Particle Astrophysics Research Centre (former name for the Arthur B. McDonald Institute) |
| CPCSSN |
Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network (located at Queen’s) (pronounced: sip sin) |
| CRC |
Canada Research Chairs (this is the federal agency that runs a program for individual researchers that provides mostly salary support and provides overhead to Qs, a CFI-LOF could also accompany a CRC application) |
| CRCC |
Canadian Research Coordinating Committee |
| CRCEF |
Canada Research Continuity Emergency Fund (related to COVID-19) |
| CRCP |
Canada Research Chairs Program |
| CRCs |
Canada Research Chairs |
| CRD |
Collaborative Research and Development Grants |
| CRDC |
Canadian Research and Development Classification |
| CSPC |
Canadian Science Policy Conference |
| CTG |
Clinical Trials Group |
| CTO |
Chief Technology Officer |
| CV |
Curriculum Vitae |
| Cybera |
An Alberta not-for-profit responsible for the provincial ORAN as well as innovations that are enabled by networks and computers |
| DAC |
Diabetes Action Canada |
| DBMS |
Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences |
| DDQIC |
Dunin-Deshpande Queen’s Innovation Centre |
| DEAP |
Diversity and Equity Assessment and Planning |
| Deputy VPR |
Deputy Vice-Principal Research |
| DSS |
Data Summary and Signature Sheet (historical internal Qs document researchers filled out for funding and ethics approvals, term still used to refer to TRAQ forms completed for awards module) |
| ECR |
Early Career Researcher |
| ED |
Executive Director |
| EDI |
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion |
| EDII |
Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Indigeneity |
| EOI |
Expression of Interest |
| ERA |
Early Researcher Award (this is a program that supports individuals for student salaries, travel, and other costs, and also provides overhead to Qs) |
| EVP |
Executive Vice Principal/President |
| FACULTY 180 |
a software to create and maintain CVs for professors |
| FAS |
Faculty of Arts and Sciences (also A&S) |
| FAS |
Faculty of Arts & Science (also A&S) |
| fCOI |
Financial Conflict of Interest |
| FDGs |
Four Designated Groups |
| FEAS |
Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences |
| FedDev/FedDev Ontario |
Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (a federal program supporting innovation and economic growth in southern Ontario) |
| FHS |
Faculty of Health Sciences |
| fMRI |
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
| FundOpps |
Funding opportunities are emailed twice a week to subscribers. Also called “fundopps”. The company that manages the email list is “Constant Contact” |
| FY |
Fiscal Year |
| GEI |
Global Excellence Initiative |
| GLP |
Good Laboratory Practice |
| GPU |
Graphics Processing Units |
| GRA |
Globalink Research Award (Mitacs program) |
| GREB |
General Research Ethics Board (primarily has human ethics authority over humanities, social science, science, engineering, and administrative research involving humans) |
| GRF |
General Research Fund |
| GrIP |
Grants and Institutional Programs |
| GrIP+ |
Grants and Institutional Programs + support staff |
| HDH |
Hôtel Dieu Hospital |
| HDHRI |
Hotel Dieu Hospital Research Institute |
| Here4U |
a software program developed by the CAC and IBM to provide mental health support |
| HIPPA |
Health Insurance Portability and Protection Act (USA) |
| HMRC |
Human Mobility Research Centre |
| HPC |
high performance computing |
| HPC4Health |
a computing consortium consisting of UHN and the Hospital for Sick Children |
| HPCS |
High Performance Computing Symposium |
| HPCVL |
High Performance Computing Virtual Laboratory (renamed CAC on April 1, 2016) |
| HQP |
Highly Qualified Personnel (research trainees such as graduate students and postdocs, common term used by Tri-Agenices) |
| HREO |
Human Rights & Equity Office |
| HS |
Health Sciences |
| HSREB |
Health Sciences and Affiliated Teaching Hospitals Research Ethics Board (primarily reviews health science research, including all human participant research being conducted at the affiliated teaching hospitals) |
| I-EDIAA |
Indigenization, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Anti-Racism, Accessibility |
| IC |
Industry Canada (now ISED Innovation, Science and Economic Development) |
| ICES |
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences |
| IESO |
Independent Electricity Systems Operator (Ontario) |
| IF |
Innovation Fund (a CFI program for individuals, and small or large groups of researchers to obtain infrastructure) |
| IJVF |
International Joint Ventures Fund (a CFI program that supports large projects involving multiple institutions from across Canada and beyond) |
| IMRAP |
Institutional Multidisciplinary Research Adjudication Panel (used for large CFI Innovation Fund competitions) |
| Indoc Research |
a bioinformatics not-for-profit company (Toronto, ON) responsible for developing BrainCODE |
| IOF |
Infrastructure Operating Fund (a CFI program that provides operating funds for JELF, LOF and/or LEF/NIF projects) |
| IP |
Intellectual property |
| IRC |
Institutional Research Committee (used for large CFI Innovation Fund competitions) |
| ISED |
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (formerly Industry Canada) |
| ISO 27001 |
a certification program for highly secure data centres |
| ISRC |
Queen’s Institutional Strategic Research Committee (new in 2020) |
| JELF |
John R. Evans Leaders Fund (a CFI program for individual or small group of researchers to obtain infrastructure) |
| KGH |
Kingston General Hospital |
| KGHRI |
Kingston General Health Research Institute |
| KHSC |
Kingston Health Sciences Centre |
| LCDRI |
Leadership Council on Digital Research Infrastructure |
| LEF |
Leading Edge Fund (a CFI program for individuals, and small or large groups of researchers to obtain infrastructure for projects that are innovative and should support another CFI project) |
| Listserv |
an application that distributes messages to subscribers on an electronic mailing list. (see FundOpps) |
| LOF |
Leaders Opportunity Fund (a CFI program which no longer exists as it basically became the JELF) |
| LOI |
Letter of Intent |
| LOS |
Letter of Support |
| LP1 |
a large parallel computer installed at SciNet **No longer in use** |
| LSARP |
Large Scale Applied Research Project (program through the ORF) |
| LSO |
Life Sciences Ontario |
| M9K |
Sun M9000 computer (installed at HPCVL replaced in 2016) |
| MEDI |
Ministry of Economic Development & Innovation (Ontario) |
| MITACS |
a funding agency for research internships for students and postdoctoral fellows |
| MOU |
Memorandum of Understanding |
| MRI |
Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
| MRIS |
Ministry of Research Innovation and Science (provincial agency that is associated with the CFI matching program, and other provincial stand-alone programs) |
| MSI |
Major Science Initiatives - a funding program run by CFI to provide operating funding for large science projects (including high performance computing) |
| National Platform |
the collection of 5 high performance computing sites located across Canada, consisting of “Arbutus” (Victoria), “Cedar” (SFU), “Graeme” (Waterloo), “Niagara” (Toronto), “Beluga” (McGill) |
| NCE |
Network of Centres of Excellence |
| NCIC |
National Cancer Institute of Canada |
| NDA |
Non-disclosure agreement |
| NDRIO |
New Digital Research Infrastructure Organization - a working name for the organization that will replace Compute Canada effective April 1, 2022 |
| NFK |
NanoFabrication Kingston |
| NFRF |
New Frontiers in Research Fund |
| NIF |
New Initiatives Fund (a CFI program for individuals, and small or large groups of researchers to obtain infrastructure for projects that are innovative and do not build on another CFI project) |
| NIH |
National Institutes of Health |
| NOA |
Notice of Award (may be a conditional (pen-ultimate, few details to sort out before finalized) or unconditional (final) NOA) |
| NOD |
Notice of Decision |
| NOF/New Opps |
New Opportunities Fund (a CFI program which no longer exists as it basically became the LOF) |
| NOI |
Notice of Intent |
| NPF |
National Platform Fund (a CFI program that largely supports projects involving multiple institutions from across Canada, which build on another CFI project) |
| NRC |
National Research Council of Canada |
| NSE |
Natural Sciences and Engineering |
| NSERC |
National Sciences & Engineering Research Council (this is a federal tri-council program, the Office of Research Services deals with these programs) |
| NSERC – OBI |
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada - Ontario Brain Institute |
| OBI |
Ontario Brain Institute |
| OCBN |
Ontario Cancer Biomarker Network (Toronto, ON) now Indoc Research |
| OCE |
Ontario Centres of Excellence (a provincial funding agency, small to medium grants) |
| OCI |
Ontario Cancer Institute |
| OHDP |
Ontario Health Data Platform |
| OICR |
Ontario Institute for Cancer Research |
| OIT |
Ontario Innovation Trust (a provincial program that no longer exists as it basically became the MRI) (defunct) |
| OPI |
Office of Partnerships and Innovation (part of the VPR Portfolio) **No longer in use SEE QPI** |
| ORDCF |
Ontario Research Development Challenge Fund (this is a program that no longer exists as it basically became the ORF-RE) (defunct) |
| ORF-RE |
Ontario Research Fund: Research Excellence (this is an MRI program that supports stand-alone projects involving individual researchers or groups and provides salary support, travel, and other costs, and also provides overhead to Qs) |
| ORF-RI |
Ontario Research Fund: Research Infrastructure (this is an MRI program that matches a majority of CFI programs) |
| ORF-RI LIF |
Large Infrastructure Fund (the ORF-RI program that matches LEF/NIF projects) |
| ORF-RI SIF |
Small Infrastructure Fund (the ORF-RI program that matches LOF projects) |
| ORION |
Ontario Research and Innovation Optical Network connects universities, colleges and hospitals across Ontario with each other Ontario’s connection to the CANARIE network |
| OSC |
Ontario Synchrotron Consortium |
| OVPR |
Office of the Vice Principal (Research), executive office of the VP (Research) **No longer in use SEE VPR** |
| Parteq |
"Old name of the organization that patents inventions from Queen’s researchers. Earlier in 2017 Parteq was reorganized in the Queen’s “Office of Partnership and Innovation”. " |
| PCC |
Providence Care Centre |
| PDA |
Premier’s Discovery Award (this is a provincial program that provides support to individuals with approval from their faculty on the expenditure of the funds) |
| PDC(s) |
Partnerships Development Coordinator(s) |
| PDF |
Postdoctoral Fellow |
| PDO(s) |
Partnerships Development Officer(s) |
| PD(s) |
Protocol Deviation(s) |
| PE |
Program Evaluation |
| PHI |
Personal Health Information |
| PHIPA |
Personal Health Information Protection Act (Canada) |
| PICRDI |
Principal’s Implementation Committee on Racism, Diversity and Inclusion |
| PIs |
Principal Investigators |
| POC |
Proof of Concept |
| POP |
Point of Presence - a connection point to the optical network |
| PREA |
Premier’s Research Excellence Award (this is a program that no longer exists as it became the ERA) |
| QA |
Quality Assurance |
| QCPU |
Queen's Cardio Pulmonary Unit |
| QCRI |
Queen’s Cancer Research Institute (accommodates 3 major cancer research groups at Queen’s) |
| QI |
Quality Improvement |
| QNS |
Queen’s National Scholars |
| QPI |
Queen’s Partnership and Innovation (part of the VPR Portfolio) |
| QRC |
Queen’s Research Chair (this is a discontinued Qs internal program that provided individuals with an annual award to spend as per faculty approval) |
| QROF |
Queen’s Research Opportunity Fund (represents a strategic investment in areas of institutional research strength that will provide researchers and scholars opportunities to accelerate their programs and research goals.) |
| QUBS |
Queen's University Biological Station |
| QUIC |
Queen’s University International Centre (supports international students at Queen’s) |
| R4R@Q |
Resources for Research at Queen’s |
| RAF |
Risk Assessment Form |
| RCI |
Research Centres and Institutes |
| RCs |
Research Coordinators |
| RCU |
Research Contracts Unit (now called Research Legal Services (part of QPI)) |
| RDM |
Research Discovery Management |
| RDN |
Research Discovery Network |
| REB |
Research Ethics Board |
| RIG |
Research Initiation Grant (designed to provide a one-time start-up research Project (account) for new academic appointees who meet the eligibility requirements) |
| RISQ |
Réseau d'informations scientifiques du Québec now part of Calcul Quebec |
| RLS |
Research Legal Services (formally Research Contracts Unit (part of QPI)) |
| RMC |
Royal Military College of Canada |
| RPA |
Research Projects Advisor |
| RSC |
Royal Society of Canada |
| SAC |
Scientific Advisory Committee |
| SEA(s) |
Serious Adverse Event(s) |
| SASS |
Student Academic Success Services |
| SC |
SuperComputing conference held annually in the US |
| SciNet |
a U of Toronto based computing centre host to the Niagara system on of the 5 National Platform host sites |
| SEAMO |
Southeastern Ontario Academic Medical Organization (an association whose members are: the Clinical Teachers' Association of Queen's University, Kingston General Hospital, The Religious Hospitallers of St. Joseph of the Hotel Dieu Hospital Kingston, Providence Continuing Care Centre (St. Mary's of the Lake Hospital) and Queen's University.) |
| SGPS |
Society of Graduate and Professional Students |
| SGS now SGSPA |
School of Graduate Studies now called School of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs |
| SHARCnet |
a consortium of universities in Southwestern Ontario |
| Sick Kids |
The Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto, ON) |
| SIG |
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Institutional Grant |
| SME(s) |
Small to Medium-sized Enterprises |
| SMITH |
Smith School of Business |
| SNO |
Sudbury Neutrino Observatory |
| SNOLAB |
Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Lab (Sudbury and Kingston, ON) |
| SOP |
Standard Operating Procedure |
| SOSCIP |
Southern Ontario Smart Computing Innovation Platform a consortium of Ontario universities and colleges focused on linking industry to academia to advance the use of high-end computing |
| SPOs |
Standard Operating Procedures |
| SRP |
Strategic Research Plan |
| SSH |
Social Sciences and Humanities |
| SSHRC |
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada |
| TGMS |
Tri-Agency Grant Management System |
| TIPS |
Tri-agency Institutional Programs Secretariat |
| TRAQ |
Tools for Researchers at Queen’s |
| TRC |
Truth and Reconciliation Commission |
| UACC |
University Animal Care Committee |
| UCARE |
University Council on Anti-Racism and Equity - https://www.queensu.ca/inclusive/content/university-council-anti-racism-and-equity-ucare |
| UHN |
University Health Network (Toronto) |
| UNDRIP |
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples |
| URG |
University Research Grants **No longer in use SEE URS** |
| URS |
University Research Services/Research Services |
| USRA |
Undergraduate Summer Research Award (NSERC program) |
| USSRF |
Undergraduate Student Summer Research Fellowships (internal Queen’s program) |
| VPOC |
Vice Principals’ Operations Committee |
| VPR |
Vice-Principal Research/Vice-Principal Research Portfolio |
| WestGrid |
The regional organization representing the Western provinces (Manitoba and west) within the Compute Canada federation |
| YGK |
YGK is the airport code for Kingston and has been used as a synonym to describe Kingston |
| YSEP |
Young Scientist Exchange Program |
