Glossary - N

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• N.A. — Naval Architect (degree)
• N.E. — Naval Engineer (degree)
• NAAB — National Architecture Accreditation Board
• NACAC — National Association for College Admission Counseling
• NACME — National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering
• NACUBO — National Association of College and University Business Officers
• NAE — National Academy of Engineering
• NAGPS — National Association of Graduate and Professional Students
• NAMSE — National Association of Minority Students and Education
• NAS — National Academy of Science
• NASA — National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• NASPA — National Association of Student Personnel Administrators Foundation
• NBER — National Bureau of Economic Research
• NCAA — National Collegiate Athletic Association
• NCI — National Cancer Institute
• NCIIA — National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance
• NCREIF — National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries
• NCRR — National Center for Research Resources was a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• NCURA — National Council of University Research Administrators
• NEA — National Endowment for the Arts
• NEASC — New England Association of Schools and Colleges
• NEBHE — New England Board of Higher Education
• NE-COSEE — New England Center of Ocean Science Education Excellence
• NECST — Nano-Engineered Composite aerospace Structures Consortium
• NED — Nuclear Engineering Department (now known as the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering)
• NEH — National Endowment for the Humanities
• NERCOMP
• NEROC — Northeast Radio Observatory Corporation
• NEST — New England Science Teachers (later renamed to the current Network of Educators in Science and Technology)
• NETL — National Energy Technology Laboratory
• NGOs — Non-governmental organizations
• NHGRI — National Human Genome Research Institute
• NHLBI — National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
• NIAID — National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
• NIBR — Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research
• NIC (Network Interface Card) — An adapter card that physically connects a computer to a network cable, e.g., an Ethernet card.
• NIEHS — National Institute of Environmental Health Science
• NIGMS — National Institute of General Medical Sciences
• NIH — National Institutes of Health
• NIHGPS — National Institutes of Health Grants Policy Statement
• NIMWF — National Initiative on Minority Women Faculty
• NIST — Network Infrastructure and Services Team (within Information Systems and Technology)
• NIST (gov) — National Institute of Standards and Technology
• NMC — New Media Center
• NML — (Francis Bitter) National Magnet Laboratory
• NNI — National Nanotechnology Initiative
• NNSA — National Nuclear Security Administration
• No. 6 — Number Six Club (Delta Psi)
• NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• Nom Comm — Committee on Nominations
• NOSB — National Ocean Sciences Bowl
• NPMA — National Property Management Association
• NRA — NASA Research Announcement
• NRC — National Research Council
• NRC (Federal) — (Federal) Nuclear Regulatory Commission
• NREL — National Renewal Energy Laboratory (Colorado)
• NRFI — Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence Imaging
• NRL — Nuclear Reactor Laboratory
• NROTC — Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps
• NRP — Neurosciences Research Program
• NRSA — Non-Resident Student Association
• NS — Naval Science (subject)
• NSABB — National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity
• NSB — National Science Board
• NSBE — National Society of Black Engineers
• NSBRI — National Space Biomedical Research Institute
• NSE — Nuclear Science and Engineering, Department of
• NSF — National Science Foundation
• NSL — Nonlinear Systems Laboratory
• NSPIRES — NASA Solicitation and Proposal Integrated Review and Evaluation System
• NSTC — National Science and Technology Council
• NTP — Network Time Protocol
• NTU — Nanyang Technological University (part of the Singapore-MIT Alliance)
• NUS — National University of Singapore (part of the Singapore-MIT Alliance)
• SNMP — simple Network Management Protocol