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A&S scholars sharing their expertise in the media

April 17, 2026

From the Lebanon-Israel ceasefire to the discovery of a 7.2-million-year-old thigh bone, 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.

Interim Dean Wright addresses 2025–26 year-end Faculty Council meeting

April 15, 2026

Read Interim Dean Stephen Wright's remarks from the April 15, 2026, A&S Faculty Council meeting where he highlighted just some of the accomplishments of the A&S community in 2025–26.

Good morning Arts & Science,

A&S scholars sharing their expertise in the media

April 10, 2026

From supernovas to housing policies, 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.

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‘Could be the oldest known human’: 7.2 million year old femur suggests early bipedalism in Europe

April 10, 2026

Analysis of a 7.2-million-year-old thigh bone recovered from the Azmaka fossil deposit in Bulgaria suggests walking upright on two legs — a distinctly human trait known as bipedalism — was present in pre-human ancestors at least one million years earlier than previously known.

A&S scholars sharing their expertise in the media

April 02, 2026

From No Kings rallies across the United States to an effort to spur housing construction in Ontario by reducing development charges, 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.

A&S scholars sharing their expertise in the media

March 27, 2026

From the value in asking someone what they do for a living to a Toronto city councillor’s recommendations for improving safety on the city’s subway system, experts from a range of disciplines across the Faculty of Arts & Science are sharing their expertise on a variety of issues in the media.

Top (l. to r.): Paul Gries, Adam Hammond, David Liu, Tomomi Parins-Fukuchi; bottom (l. to r.): Michael Widener, Nathan Taback, Mary Pugh.

For developing interdisciplinary data sciences courses, faculty receive distinguished Northrop Frye Award

March 24, 2026

The prestigious Northrop Frye Award, one of the university’s Awards of Excellence, has been bestowed on the Interdisciplinary Data Science Course Development Team for the creation

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The search for dark matter: U of T physicists achieve frigid milestone with SuperCDMS experiment in Sudbury mine

March 24, 2026

Deep underground, a refrigerator about a hundred times colder than outer space — designed to detect dark matter, the mysterious substance that makes up over 75 per cent of all matter in the universe — has just reached a critical milestone.

A&S scholars sharing their expertise in the media

March 20, 2026

From the factors affecting food security to the world’s happiest countries, 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.

A&S scholars sharing their expertise in the media

March 13, 2026

From the discovery of a new galaxy to the war in Iran, 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.

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