March 21, 2025 by
A&S News
From the state of the world’s happiness to the clearest images of the early universe, 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.
March 14, 2025
- Centre for Industrial Relations & Human Resources and Centre for Diaspora & Transnational Studies associate professor Padraic X. Scanlan’s book, Rot, is highlighted in The Wall Street Journal (paywall).
- Department of Political Science professor and Citizen Lab director Ron Deibert writes in The Globe and Mail (paywall) about national security risks brought on by the U.S.
- Department of Economics and Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy associate professor Peter Morrow weighs in for CBC News online on potential retaliatory tariffs from Canada.
- Department of Political Science professor and Trinity College fellow John Kirton comments for The Globe and Mail (paywall) on the G7 foreign ministers’ meeting in Quebec.
March 15, 2025
- Department of English professor and vice-dean, undergraduate at the Faculty of Arts & Science Randy Boyagoda reviews a novel by Stephen Graham Jones, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, for The New York Times (paywall).
March 16, 2025
- Department of Cell & Systems Biology professor John Peever shares with La Presse (paywall) new insights on the treatment of sleep paralysis.
- Victoria College academic programs director Ira Wells shares with the Toronto Star (paywall) an excerpt from his new book on censorship and book banning.
- March 17, 2025
- Department of English professor Ian Williams delivers a lecture series on the importance of conversations for CBC Radio: Ideas.
- Department of Philosophy professor Mark Kingwell offers advice in the Toronto Star (paywall) on overcoming self-consciousness.
- Department of History professor emeritus Mark McGowan discusses on CHCH the story behind St. Patrick’s Day.
- Mark Entwistle, a senior fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, writes in The Globe and Mail (paywall) about Donald Trump’s treatment of Canada.
March 18, 2025
- David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics and St. Michael’s College assistant professor Adam Hincks and Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics and department associate professor Renée Hložek explain in the National Post (paywall) their discoveries from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope project.
- Department of Geography & Planning professor and School of Cities Infrastructure Institute director Matti Siemiatycki discusses on TVO: The Agenda whether congestion pricing could work in Toronto.
- Centre for Industrial Relations & Human Resources and Centre for Diaspora & Transnational Studies associate professor Padraic X. Scanlan is featured in The Globe and Mail (paywall) for his new book, Rot.
- Department of Computer Science professor Raquel Urtasun is highlighted in Fast Company as leader of Waabi, named one of the most innovative transportation companies of the year.
March 19, 2025
- Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics and department associate professor Renée Hložek shares with The Globe and Mail (paywall) her Atacama Cosmology Telescope discoveries.
- Citizen Lab senior research associate Kate Robertson reveals potential spyware use by Ontario police, sharing her findings with The Guardian, Bloomberg, Toronto Star (paywall), CBC News online, and CBC Radio: Metro Morning.
- University Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton of the Department of Computer Science reflects in La Presse (paywall) on his Nobel achievement and the future of AI.
- Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics postdoctoral fellow Mike Walmsley shares with Reuters, Deutsche Welle and Smithsonian Magazine his work with the Euclid space telescope mission.
- John Scott-Railton, senior researcher at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy’s Citizen Lab, confirms in The Guardian and the Washington Post (paywall) spyware use against a prominent activist in Italy.
- Department of History professor and Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy affiliated faculty Andres Kasekamp discusses on TVO: The Agenda ongoing talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump.
March 20, 2025
- Department of Psychology assistant professor Felix Cheung shares with CNN online, CBC News online and Global Radio new insights from this year’s World Happiness Report.
- Department of Computer Science professor Raquel Urtasun is featured in The Logic (paywall) as a leading innovator in autonomous vehicles. University Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton, along with alumni Alex Krizhevsky and Ilya Sutskever, were also noted for their groundbreaking research.
- Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics public outreach, communications & events strategist Ilana MacDonald talks to the Toronto Star (paywall) about the spring equinox.
- Researchers of the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy’s Citizen Lab tell The Guardian about identifying spyware targets in Australia.
- Department of History professor emerita Margaret MacMillan talks to CBC Radio: The Current about U.S. President Donald Trump’s approach to ending the Russia-Ukraine war.
- Retired Innis College instructor Roger Riendeau discusses with Inside Halton a course he taught about the assassination of John F. Kennedy.