A&S scholars sharing their expertise in the media

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.

March 27

• Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy professor Timothy Snyder comments in CBC News on the No Kings rallies in the U.S. and what has changed since last year’s protests.
• Department of Sociology professor Scott Schieman writes in the Globe and Mail about the extent to which someone’s work impacts others, know as the “rippling effect.”
• Centre for Industrial Relations & Human Resources professor Rafael Gomez comments in CBC News on a proposal to update certifications of public servant unions in the Northwest Territories.
• Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies assistant professor Patrick Watson explains in The Pointer the need for accountability among Ontario police organizations amid internal investigations of corruption.

March 28

• Department of Political Science professor Lynette Ong, director of the China Governance Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, comments in a Canadian Press story on Canada’s response to reports of forced labour in China.

March 29

• David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics and St. Michael’s College assistant professor Adam Hincks contemplates the overlap between science and spirituality in the Associated Press.
• Department of Physics assistant professor Miriam Diamond describes in the Sudbury Star the role of U of T scientists in the search deep underground for dark matter at minus 273.14 degrees C.
• Department of Earth Sciences and School of the Environment professor Miriam Diamond comments in CBC News on the level of benzene detected in the air surrounding a Saint John, N.B., oil refinery.
• Department of Computer Science and Department of Statistical Sciences assistant professor Chris Maddison comments in a Vietnam.vn story about the moment ten years ago when AI technology AlphaGo defeated the world’s top player of the strategy board game Go.

March 30

• Department of Geography & Planning professor Matti Siemiatycki, director of the Infrastructure Institute at the School of Cities, speaks on CBC Radio’s Ottawa Morning about the appointment of OC Transpo’s new general manager.

March 31

• Patrick Watson comments in the Toronto Star (paywall) on questions surrounding the continuing suspension of a Kingston, Ontario police officer that included a recent pay increase.

April 1

• Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics assistant professor Maya Fishbach discusses in Science new research that shows some stars explode so completely, they don’t leave behind black holes.
• Rafael Gomez speaks about the upcoming increase to Ontario’s minimum wage in the Calgary Sun.

April 2

• Department of Political Science professor emeritus John Kirton speaks in a BNN Bloomberg story about the potential of lithium deposits in Alberta.
• Institute of Municipal Finance and Governance director Enid Slack comments in CBC News on new funding designed to reduce municipal development charges in housing construction across Ontario.