Measurement and categorization are, of course, fundamental to any scientific endeavor, but the implications of being able to identify psychopaths are as much practical as academic. To put it simply, if we can't spot them, we are doomed to be their victims, both as individuals and as a society.
The field of 'economics and organization' is still young and needs support. I have been a chaired professor much of my academic life and know that such chairs are important for recruiting and retaining faculty.
I'm an artist, I'm not an academic folklorist.
Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.
I love art, but I'm not an academic; I just like what I like.
Accepting money from the federal government to conduct research places academic inquiry in the service of national interests.
At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time.
I don't know if I ever entertained an academic career, nor did I ever think I'd become a feature film-maker in the market.
I want to inspire Asian kids to become more artistic and creative rather than feeling that they have to be academic or whatever.
Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., raising our children, Christopher, Tom, and Lucy.
Rand Paul comes off like an academic stiff who wants to give us a lecture on American civics.
War is not an academic exercise.
I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.
In research, I wanted to establish the medicinal chemistry/bioassay conjugation as an academic pursuit, as exciting to the imagination as astrophysics or molecular biology.
Basically, I was always very interested in comedy, but I was much more sort of academic. And then, after college, loaded with my art history degree, I decided to go work at Comedy Central as a temp.
There should be more interaction and more confidence building between our various academic institutions just like how there needs to be a confidence building between industry and academics.
I think of myself as a writer as much as I think of myself as a linguist and an academic. I really enjoy writing - playing with language and getting just the right metaphor.
I didn't do well at school, and I don't have lots of academic reference points.
From B.A. to M.A. and on to Ph.D., my academic career was all smooth sailing. Upon receiving my degrees, I stayed on to teach at Beijing Normal University.
Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.
Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my parents, good grades pleased my teachers; you got them in order to sew up approval.
