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