Waterloo-related acronyms: P-Q-R

P

Acronym Full name
PACS Peace and Conflict Studies
PACSC Provost’s Advisory Committee on Staff Compensation
PAMI Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Group
PD professional development
PDEng Professional Development for Engineering Students (now WatPD — Engineering) 
PEO Professional Engineers Ontario
PHR Population Health Research Group
PI Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
PLG Programming Languages Group
PMRI Porous Media Research Institute (ceased)
PREA Premier’s Research Excellence Awards (now ERA)
PRFO Parks Research Forum of Ontario (now CASIOPA)
PRO Photonics Research Ontario — now CP (OCE)
PSSA Political Science Student Association

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Q

Acronym Full name
QNC Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre
QSI Quaternary Sciences Institute (ceased)

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R

Acronym Full name
R&D  research and development
RAIC Royal Architecture Institute of Canada
REEP Residential Energy Efficiency Project
RF radio frequency
RIA Schlegel-University of Waterloo Research Institute for Aging
RIM Research In Motion (now BlackBerry)
RLS Recreation and Leisure Studies
RPW Rhetoric and Professional Writing

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