Take hope, my humanities-oriented friends, software is finally getting good enough to shift engineers to the back-office and unleash humanities-centric creative thinking at the front office, which will be transformative.
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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But the University and College Union (UCU) said the launch of the new college - and state funding cuts for arts, humanities and social sciences - would result in the subjects becoming the preserve of a "select few".
With low demand and low earnings, the arts and humanities are well-represented on this list.
So, at the end of a decade of thesis-writing, many humanities students leave the profession to do something for which they have not been trained.
She also said the plan might have the unintended consequence of reducing the number of students studying science, technology, engineering and maths - the so-called STEM subjects - because students tend to get higher grades in the arts and humanities.
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This extraordinary record of the diversity of American English is the longest continuously-funded project of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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While engineers from top schools can recover their earnings losses in five years, that's not the case for humanities majors at mid-tier colleges.
"I have seen nothing to suggest that anything about April itself makes people violent, " Robert Blaskiewicz, who runs the blog Skeptical Humanities, said in a 2011 interview with CNN about the 20-year anniversary of the siege of the Waco compound.
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And finally, I want to thank the creator of the Kennedy Center Honors and the Co-Chair of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, George Stevens. (Applause.) George and his son, Michael, are still bringing this show to life after 34 years, and we are grateful to both of them.
Alongside sciences, the English Baccalaureate comprises English, maths and humanities - which is a choice of history or geography - and a language.
This Spinal Tap meets Brideshead launch event was held at the British Academy in London - and academy fellow Lord Bragg emphasised the importance of not allowing the humanities to be eclipsed by the sciences.
Fellow historian, vice-president and dean of the faculty of humanities Professor Keith Brown, said that Mr Wood would bring the university "his expertise in making history accessible to the public".
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And as far as I'm concerned, whoever invented the T-shirt cannon deserves one of those National Science or Humanities Medals.
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.
Members of the humanities faculty were upset that Stanford proposed to create a second campus without including liberal-arts faculty or students.
The arts, the humanities, they appeal to a certain yearning that's shared by all of us -- a yearning for truth and for beauty, for connection and the simple pleasure of a good story.
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Eventually, 35 full-support humanities scholarships will be granted every year to new postgraduate entrants to the university.
She said schools with humanities as a specialism had the option to focus on the teaching and learning of classical studies - Latin, Classical Greek and classical civilisation - alongside a core option of history, geography or English.
Two world-class universities, Stanford and Berkeley, seeped in a balance of engineering and the humanities set the original stage out of which successful innovation emerged.
In an attempt to roll back curbs on the press, Iran's culture ministry on Tuesday approved 17 new publications - covering such topics as humanities, administrative science and computers, political economy and psychology.
Knox has become a behind-the-scenes matchmaker between art and commerce in his role as a director of Stanford University's Humanities Lab.
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