Sentence examples for a time when academia from inspiring English sources

That outsize personality, combined with Dr. Koprowski's outsider status — he spent part of his career in industry at a time when academia had far more prestige — may have played a role in the fate of his vaccine, his biographer, Roger Vaughan, and Professor Oshinsky said in interviews.

There was a time when academia was the default career path for newly minted Ph.D. scientists.

There are times when academia really gets on my nerves.

There are times when academia really gets on my tits.

He entered academia at a time when labor studies was a field viewed largely in terms of economics.

There are many rules and procedures in the world of academia, and most of them date from a time when professors wore robes and rode horses, monks played the role of publishers, and graduate education was eerily similar to a page's apprenticeship to a knight.

But it is an outgrowth of academia's growing interest in the economic foundations of journalism at a time when those foundations appear unstable.

The controversies over fracking research tap into concerns in academia about the growing influence of corporate money in research especially at a time when government grants are declining.

Here is a man who has made a successful career as an enthusiast in an age when literature has largely, in academia, been viewed with scepticism; he has been widely read, trusted and disagreed with in a time when the critic, even more than the author, is redundant.

Academia is certainly one career path, but it is far from being the only option at a time when succeeding in the academic environment is increasingly difficult.

In his vivacious memoir China Watcher, leading American Sinologist Richard Baum recalls a time when just getting your hands on an internal Party document was enough to launch a career--not that many people outside academia really cared that much.