Private and public budgets are busting to keep up with expenses driven by such factors as an ossified system of tenure-driven faculty appointments, outrageous research obligations even in the humanities and social sciences and gilded accommodations for the (ever longer) nesting students.

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The prize rewards up to three candidates that have made an outstanding contribution to the development of knowledge and society through art, teaching and research in the social sciences and humanities.

UNESCO: Apply for UNESCO Prizes

Future Earth will bring together natural scientists, social scientists, engineers and the humanities with funders and policy makers to align research agendas, understand and anticipate environmental change, and develop innovative solution.

UNESCO: CULTURE

Future Earth will bring together natural scientists, social scientists, engineers and the humanities with funders and policy makers to align research agendas, understand and anticipate environmental change, and develop innovative solutions.

UNESCO: Biodiversity Initiative

Overview: KNAW coordinates the work of 18 research institutes throughout the country in the humanities, social sciences, the life sciences and science and government policy.

UNESCO: Global Open Access Portal

Annette Gordon-Reed. (Applause.) The 2009 National Humanities Medal to Annette Gordon-Reed, for important and innovative research about an American family, the Hemings of Monticello.

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