Sentence examples for the first academics from inspiring English sources

Joan B. Culla, a leading Catalan historian, was among the first academics to gain access to the documents, when he visited Salamanca in 1975 just as Franco died.

Bill Eadington, an economist who was one of the first academics to study gambling, as both a force for economic development and a challenging social problem, died on Feb. 11 in Crystal Bay, Nev.

Jegadeesh and Titman (1993) were the first academics to discover that the momentum effect existed in the US securities market in three to 12 months.

Although philosophers were among the first academics to publish studies of the new artform in the early decades of the twentieth century, the field did not experience significant growth until the 1980's when a renaissance occurred.

Frances Goldscheider, a now-retired sociology professor at Brown University, was one of the first academics to put forward a proposal for what she called a "financial abortion".

He studied how social class and ethnicity interacted with school achievement and was one of the first academics in the US who researched how watching television affected children and their development.

Last spring Stanford started the first academic journal dedicated to the subject: The Stanford Social Innovation Review.

(Duke was also host of the first academic symposium on podcasting in September).

Brooklyn High School of the Arts, the first academic arts school in Brooklyn, is just to the west of the neighborhood.

In October, Glasgow University became the first academic institution in Europe to commit to divest from the fossil fuel industry.

Last January, one of the first academic studies of how effectively oncologists communicate critical information to their patients was published.