Sentence examples for behind academia from inspiring English sources

It has been 40 years since Mr. Talmage — a philosophy student — left behind academia to move here to start White Buffalo Farm, which grows organic peaches, apples and pie cherries.

Knowledge workers at technology companies are lagging behind academia when it comes to using video, but that won't be the case for long.

So in 2000, at the age of 61, he decided to leave academia behind.

Here, Angel leaves academia behind, writing about desire in a series of reflections on her own sexual experiences.

Though he had left academia behind, Erdmann's reasons for going to Iraq were, in a sense, professional.

Why is our generation doing this to the people behind us?" But academia's loss was to be literature's gain.

His influence extends beyond academia.

Even as Mills spent his career on the business side of sports — in addition to dabbling in academia and developing behind-the-scenes relationships with agents, executives and players — he said he had always wanted to be more involved with the game itself.

"I'm embarking on the next phase of my professional evolution as an independent scientist, leaving the Academia-Pharma Complex behind," he wrote in a blog on his lab Web page another way he had previously won media attention.

She identified three areas in which academia lagged behind thinktanks in its capacity to influence policy: failure to produce clear outcomes without caveats; reluctance to clearly define policy implications; and difficulty in communicating findings in an accessible way.

History is replete with brilliant people who made calamitous mistakes.Some of the finest minds on Wall Street and in academia were behind Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM), a hedge fund that collapsed in 1998, after following a strategy that believed the market was underpricing illiquid assets and overpricing liquid ones, using squillions of borrowed money.