My journey with the Academic Theme included a few tweaks.
adding a subtitle to the home page Subtitle on Home Page Possibly, because I could not think of a better page title than “my home on the web!”, I had the urge to add a subtitle. Amazingly, the Academic theme does not support this per se.
I failed to find something useful on google and in particular for the Academic theme, but I had fading memories about reading about self-defined parameters elsewhere.