The grueling process of subjecting work to the up-or-down judgment of credentialed scholarly peers has been a cornerstone of academic culture since at least the mid-20th century.
Research, clinical care, and education are the three cornerstones of academic health centers in the United States.
These incentives are the cornerstone of the academic and non-academic publishing industries.
The research project is the academic cornerstone of the GAP fellowship experience.
In the early 1960's, he was among the first economists to make experimental data a cornerstone of his academic output.
Striking terror into traditionalist hearts, The Waste Land came with notes by the author, composed at a publisher's request but providing a handy rationale for the poem's instalment as the cornerstone of the academic modernist canon.
Enhancing facilities for hands-on engineering education is a priority of the SEAS Capital Campaign; additional instructional laboratories, modern design studios, flexible classrooms, and spaces for large, creative projects will be part of a new science, technology, and innovation community in Allston, of which SEAS will be the academic cornerstone.
Such counts have become a cornerstone of the academic publishing industry's metrics, with Thomson Reuters, Elsevier, and others selling access to bibliographic databases that enable users to run the numbers.
Since it opened in 1893, Bakersfield High School has been the pride of this city and its academic cornerstone, the place where the late Chief Justice Earl Warren graduated and students call themselves the Drillers in homage to the region's oil patch.
For these individuals, ET is not simply a theory they have learned in some courses, it is the cornerstone of their academic life, and an identity-defining worldview.
