October 27, 2023 by
A&S News
From the stories of Black Canadians to the latest on the Gaza-Israel war, experts from a range of disciplines across the Faculty of Arts & Science are sharing their expertise on a variety of issues in the media.
Here’s some of what they had to say this week.
October 20, 2023
- Department of Geography & Planning professor and School of Cities director Karen Chapple and School of Cities researchers explore in The New York Times (paywall) and The Wall Street Journal (paywall) how downtown recovery patterns impact innovation and community.
- The late Natalie Zemon Davis, Department of History professor emerita, is remembered in The New York Times (paywall) and El Pais as a dynamic teacher and historian, with comments from her daughter, Simone Davis, associate director of the Trinity One program Ethics, Society & Law at Trinity College.
- School of Cities researchers share with NBC online and the San Francisco Examiner how downtown San Jose is bouncing back post-pandemic.
October 21, 2023
- Department of Political Science PhD candidate Isabela Dos Santos discusses her research with La Presse (paywall) on the village Neve Shalom, which is home to Palestinian Arab and Jewish citizens of Israel.
- Department of Geography & Planning Professor and Infrastructure Institute at the School of Cities Director Matti Siemiatycki comments for CBC News online, Radio-Canada and Toronto Star (paywall) on the barriers to transforming empty offices into housing.
October 22, 2023
- Department of History Professor Emeritus Ronald Pruessen comments for La Presse (paywall) on the evolution of American foreign policy.
October 24, 2023
- Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy Master of Public Policy candidate David Jones writes in The Globe and Mail (paywall) about the St. Lawrence Seaway strike and labour action in Canada.
- Karen Chapple examines in the Toronto Star (paywall) the effectiveness of a campaign to lure Toronto workers to London, Ontario.
- Department of Earth Sciences Professor Miriam L. Diamond comments for CBC News online on the natural regeneration of Mimico Creek.
October 25, 2023
- Department of Computer Science Associate Professor Gennady Pekhimenko is noted in BNN Bloomberg, TechCrunch and BetaKit as a co-founder of CentML, which has secured $27 million in funding from Google and NVIDIA.
- Jack Cunningham, program director of the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History and fellow at Trinity College, shares with CBC Radio: Here and Now the latest on diplomatic relations between India and Canada.
October 26, 2023
- Department of English Professor George Elliott Clarke and Women & Gender Studies Institute Professor Rinaldo Walcott are recognized by CBC Books for their respective books that shed light on the stories of Black Canadians.
- Jack Cunningham talks to CBC News online about the UN’s role and humanitarian pauses in the Gaza-Israel war.
- Department of Computer Science University Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton and Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society Director Gillian Hadfield call for more focus on the potential risks of AI, as reported in The Guardian, The Logic (paywall) and JoongAng.