- AANAPISI: Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution
- AccessINCLUDES: Linking the knowledge and results of NSF disability-related projects and projects within the NSF INCLUDES National Network
- AIE-STEM: Access to Innovative Education: STEM Opportunities for Students with Learning Disabilities
- ADVANCE: Organizational Change for Gender Equity in STEM Academic Professions
- AGEP: Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate
- AI: Artificial Intelligence
- ARIS: Center for Advancing Research Impact in Society
- ASPIRE Alliance: The National Alliance for Inclusive and Diverse STEM Faculty
- ATC: Advanced Technology Center
- BI: Broader Impacts
- BIIS: Budget Internet Information System
- BIO: Directorate for Biological Sciences
- BP: Broadening Participation
- BPCnet: Broadening Participation in Computing Resource Portal
- CEOSE: Committee on Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineering
- CISE: Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering
- CLB: Career-Life Balance Supplements
- COVID-19: Coronavirus Disease of 2019
- CREST: Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology
- DCL: Dear Colleague Letter
- DIVE: Diversity and Inclusion Video Exhibition
- DO-IT: Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology Center
- EAGER: Early-Concept Grant for Exploratory Research
- EDSIN: Environmental Data Science Inclusion Network
- EHR: Directorate for Education and Human Resources
- ENG: Directorate for Engineering
- EPSCoR: Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research
- ExpandQISE: Expanding Capacity in Quantum Information Science and Engineering
- FASED: Facilitation Awards for Scientists and Engineers with Disabilities
- GEO: Directorate for Geosciences
- GEO GOLD: Geoscience Opportunities for Leadership in Diversity
- GPRA: Government Performance and Results Modernization Act
- HAAEs: High African American Enrollment
- HAIEs: High American Indian Enrollment
- HBCU: Historically Black Colleges and Universities
- HBCU-EiR: Historically Black Colleges and Universities — Excellence in Research program
- HBCU-UP: Historically Black Colleges and Universities — Undergraduate Program
- HHE: High Hispanic Enrollment
- HSI: Hispanic-Serving Institution
- IHE: Institutions of Higher Education
- IPA: Intergovernmental Personnel
- Act IT: Information Technology
- IUSE GEOPaths: Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Pathways into Geoscience
- JCORE: White House National Science and Technology Council’s Joint Committee on the Research Environment
- LDP: Leadership Development Program
- LEAPS-MPS: Launching Early Career Academic Pathways in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences
- LGBTQIA2+: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual, Two Spririt
- LTER: Long-Term Ecological Research Network
- MR: Merit Review
- MRI: Major Research Instrumentation
- MSI: Minority-Serving Institution
- MPS: Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate
- MPS-Ascend: Mathematical and Physical Sciences Ascending Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
- MPS-Ascend EM: MPS Ascend External Mentoring
- MPS-GRSV: Mathematical and Physical Sciences Graduate Research Supplement for Veterans
- MPS-High: Mathematical and Physical Sciences High School Student Research Assistantships
- NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- NASEM: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine |
- NASNTI: Native American Serving Non Tribal Institutions
- NCSES: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics
- NEON: National Ecological Observatory Network
- NIH: National Institutes of Health
- NSB: National Science Board
- NSF: National Science Foundation
- NSF INCLUDES: Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science
- OECR: Office of Equity and Civil Rights
- OIA: Office of Integrative Activities
- OLPA: Office of Legislative and Public Affairs
- OSTP: Office of Science and Technology Policy
- PAESMEM: Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring
- PAARE: Partnerships in Astronomy & Astrophysics Research and Education
- PIs: Principal Investigators
- PBI: Predominantly Black Institutions
- PREC: Partnerships in Research and Education in Chemistry
- PREM: Partnerships in Research and Education in Materials
- PREP: Partnerships in Research and Education in Physics
- PWD: Persons with Disabilities
- PWI: Predominantly White Institutions
- RAPID: Rapid Response Research Grant
- RARE: Re-entry to Active Research
- RET: Research Experience for (High School) Teachers
- REU: Research Experiences for Undergraduates
- RII: Research Infrastructure Improvement
- ROA: Research Opportunity Awards
- RUI: Research at Undergraduate Institutions
- S&E: Science and Engineering
- SBE: Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences
- SEAPD-STEM: Southeast Alliance for Persons with Disabilities in STEM
- STCs: Science and Technology Centers
- STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
- TCUs: Tribal Colleges and Universities
- TCUP: Tribal Colleges and Universities Program
- URG: Underrepresented Groups
- VSEES: Visiting Scientists, Engineers, and Educators
- WaYS: Wabanaki Youth Science Program
- WHI-HBCU: White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities
- WMPD Report: Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in S&E Report