Bower's work in the 1960's (Bowers 1964) inaugurated the academic study of cheating in higher education.
Galton, who inaugurated the systematic study of genius, formulated the theory that genius is a very extreme degree of three combined traits intellect, zeal, and power of working that are shared by all persons in various "grades". In his Hereditary Genius (1869), he put forth the idea that genius, as measured by outstanding accomplishment, tends to run in families.
In 1945, the magazine inaugurated the Case Study program to design cost-effective housing for a booming postwar nation.
This work inaugurated the modern anthropological study of kinship systems as the basic organizing principle in most preindustrial societies.
He equally encouraged historians and liturgiologists to study Eastern Christianity, inaugurating the work of codifying Eastern canon law.
His gift inaugurates the formal study of the disease at Columbia.
Schlegel had an outstanding knowledge of art, history, literature, architecture, anthropology and foreign languages, which made him a decisive figure in the early development of comparative literature and modern linguistics, and with the creation of the journal Indische Bibliothek, he inaugurated the domain of Sanskrit studies in Germany.
In 1993, she inaugurated the Masters in French Cultural Studies, the first full-standing masters of its kind offered by an American university in a foreign country.
With this book Paul Virilio inaugurated the new science whose object of study is the "dromocratic" revolution.
This paper helped inaugurate the study of black holes, though these exotic objects did not really come into their own until the 1960s.
