The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Social Sciences has gone in this 18th edition to the Institute for Social Research (ISR) at the University of Michigan and NORC at the University of Chicago for “their long-term contribution to the objective measurement of public opinion and social life,” in the words of the committee. They are recognized as having created “a reliable and unsurpassed source for social scientists, policymakers, and journalists” through their extensive data series built up over eight decades of research.

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Ecology and Conservation Biology category goes in this second edition to plant ecologist Peter B. Reich, for work that radically improves our understanding of and ability to predict terrestrial ecosystem compositional and functional responses to global environmental change, including climate change and biodiversity loss.