Once a fledgling research school, ASU soon will hit $1 billion in annual research funding, placing the university into a rare category reached by just 33 universities across the nation.

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For the past decade, ASU has been climbing in the ranks as one of fastest-growing research universities in the world. One key measuring stick is the National Science Foundation’s Higher Education Research and Development annual survey, the latest of which shows ASU's research expenditures at nearly $904 million.



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No organization or university has more representatives on the advisory board of a new humanities journal titled Public Humanities than ASU.



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