Glossary - R

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• R&R — Rewards and Recognition (program)
• RA (Research Administrator) — An individual who demonstrates the knowledge necessary to serve as an administrator of professional and sponsored research programs.
• RA (Research Assistant) — A researcher employed, often on a temporary contract, by a university or a research institute for the purpose of assisting in academic research.
• RAC — Rooming Assignment Chair
• RAC (Religious Activities Center) — The Religious Activities Center (Building W11) houses the MIT Chaplains, student religious organizations, and other religious functions. The Religious Activities Center has three small multipurpose rooms available on a limited basis.
• RACP — Research Administration Compliance Program
• RADL — (Division of Comparative Medicine) Research and Diagnostic Lab
• RADLAB — Radiation Laboratory (old)
• RAII — Research Administration Improvement Initiative
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• RBA — Residence-Based Advising (program)
• RCRA — Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
• Redaction — The process of sanitizing (removing) unnecessary information from a file to get rid of sensitive or private content.
• REL — Resource Extraction Laboratory
• Report — Data Warehouse term: A report that you can construct in BrioQuery to display data from the Results section of the query.
• Request Tracker — Also commonly known as RT, Request Tracker is an open source trouble ticket system developed by Best Practical Solutions.
• Results — Data Warehouse term: The data that has been retrieved after processing a query and displayed in the Result section of BrioQuery.
• REX — Residence Exploration and Selection
• RFC 822 — defines the standard for the format of ARPA internet text (email) messages.
• RFID — Radio-Frequency Identification
• Ribbon — a term coined by Microsoft for its new user interface tool bar in Microsoft Office 2007 applications
• RIKEN — Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (in Japan)
• RIKEN-MIT — Neuroscience Research Center
• RLE — Research Laboratory of Electronics
• RLSLP — Residential Life and Student Life Programs (In July 2002, RLSLP was divided into the Department of Student Life Programs and the Department of Housing.)
• RNAi — RNA interference
• ROI — (old) Title of the Sloan School's alumni magazine
• ROSES — Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences
• ROTC — Reserve Officers Training Corps
• ROV — Remotely operated vehicle
• RPE — Retirement Plan for Employees
• RPSM — Retirement Plan for Staff Members
• RSC — RetroSpective Collection (Libraries)
• RSI (medical condition) — Repetitive Strain Injury
• RSI (summer program) — Research Science Institute
• RSIT — Residence System Implementation Team
• RSJP — Radiological Sciences Joint Program