Sentence examples for academic boom from inspiring English sources

Not only did it inspire an academic boom, with palaeontology PhDs who had seen the film as children now starting to take up research posts in unprecedented numbers, but it provided scholars with a standard against which to test their own theories on how dinosaurs had functioned and behaved.

Academic boom.

The critic Dwight Macdonald liked to lower the boom on academic books, especially biographies, that he called "lumbering dinosaurs with brains the size of a teacup".

Not surprisingly, the result was a "boom" in academic study, including philosophy.

Academic theory, the takeover boom and shareholder activism led to a focus on shareholder value, all too often measured through the narrow prism of short-term movements in stock prices.

There was a boom of academic faculty hires in the 1960s, he says; jobs will open up when these scientists retire or go to the "happy laboratory in the sky".

He speaks in the BHP style of academic understatement, referring to the boom as "a period of slightly higher prices".

Susannah Clark, the director and founder of the charity, said the tutoring boom was exacerbating academic inequality and her charity was trying to "redress the balance".

After its popularity boomed in the academic community, Andreessen and several fellow students marketed Mosaic commercially.

At U.S.C., change may be more difficult, Thelin said, because the football program's success — and revenue that totaled $35.2 million in the 2008-9 academic year — have dovetailed with a boom in university fund-raising and an increased academic profile.

Turns out, academic conformity sells, and business is booming: As of 2011, Gaston Caperton, the president of the College Board,nonprofit owner of SAT, was paid $1.3 million.