They were reluctant to encourage their son's passion for music, at one point even sending him to a boarding school 16 miles from Sydney to put him out of reach of the conservatory of music, where he was spending all the time they felt he should have been devoting to academic study.
And he has devoted his academic career to trying to open up little-known languages.
So far, Google Scholar, a website devoted to academic matters, counts 3,000 published papers that involve crowdsourced experiments.
Dr. Moggio lived an exemplary life devoted to academic excellence and enthusiastically committed to Catholic higher education.
Unmarried and possibly gay, Eton-educated Balfour was devoted to academic study and tipped to be a future provost of King's.
Born in Iran and now a Canadian and Irish citizen, Hoodfar is a senior anthropologist who has devoted her academic career to studying the family as well as the duties and rights of women in various Muslim contexts.
Even modern communication tools cannot resolve the basic trade-off between time devoted to academic research and other activities.
Angela James, Associate Professor of African American Studies at Loyola Marymount University, is a sociologist who has devoted her academic life to understanding racial inequality, and her personal life to eradicating it.
Deborah Tolman, another awardee, has devoted her academic career to research and writing about the way in which society understands, views and responds to women's sexuality, particularly teens, but she doesn't let her scholarship stay in the academy.
