April 5, 2024 by
A&S News
From the upcoming solar eclipse to misconceptions about the carbon tax, 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 22, 2024
- Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics associate Heidi White comments for the Toronto Star (paywall) on a rare cosmic explosion.
March 23, 2024
- University of St. Michael’s College distinguished fellow Michael Higgins writes in The Globe and Mail (paywall) about the significance of Holy Week.
- Department of Sociology and Centre for Industrial Relations & Human Resources Assistant Professor Alicia Eads shares with CNBC online her research on the economic effects of divorce for women versus men.
March 24, 2024
- Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy senior fellow Brian Lewis shares with The Globe and Mail (paywall) and CBC News online what to expect from the new Ontario budget.
- Department of Psychology Associate Professor Jed Meltzer shares with Yahoo! News his study on talking speed and brain health.
- Department of Economics Professor Emeritus Gustavo Indart argues in the Toronto Star (paywall) that government policies are to blame for Canada's stagnant productivity.
March 25, 2024
- Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics public outreach strategist Ilana MacDonald talks to CTV News online about methods to safely view the upcoming solar eclipse.
- Human Biology Program sessional lecturer Kerry Bowman talks to CBC Radio: Metro Morning about X paying legal bills for a physician who tweeted against vaccines.
- Jack Cunningham, program director of the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History and fellow at Trinity College, talks to CTV News about the Moscow concert hall attack.
March 26, 2024
- Department of History and Caribbean Studies Associate Professor Melanie Newton explains in the Toronto Star (paywall) the political landscape in Haiti.
- Department of Art History Associate Professor Kim Seung Jung writes in JoongAng about the ancient Roman Republic, highlighting its similarities to modern democratic systems.
March 27, 2024
- Department of Geography & Planning Professor and School of Cities Infrastructure Institute Director Matti Siemiatycki discusses with CTV News online how Canada’s growing population affects the economy.
- Department of Philosophy Professor Joseph Heath comments for The Walrus (paywall) on the relationship between credit lenders and borrowers in Canada.
March 28, 2024
- Department of Philosophy Professor Mark Kingwell writes in The Globe and Mail (paywall) about the entertainment value of baseball games.
- Trinity College instructor Leanne Toshiko Simpson is recognized in CBC online for her novel Never Been Better. Alumni Lily Wang of the Department of English and Scott Alexander Howard of the Department of Philosophy are also featured for their books.
March 31, 2024
- Department of Computer Science Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton discusses with Nikkei Asia (paywall) his work on neural networks and the future of AI and humanity.
- Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy Assistant Professor Lilia Topouzova shares with the Guardian her work documenting and amplifying the stories of gulag prisoners in Bulgaria.
- Department of Psychology Associate Professor Jed Meltzer and Professor Allison Sekuler discuss with the Toronto Star (paywall) advancements in dementia treatment at Toronto’s Baycrest Centre.
- Department of Psychology Professor Paul Bloom talks to KCRW Radio about the legacy of neuroscientist Sigmund Freud.
- Department of Anthropology Professor Emeritus Marcel Danesi comments for Salon on Donald Trump’s portrayal as a victimized spiritual warrior.
April 1, 2024
- Department of Economics PhD student Hugo Cordeau writes in the Hill Times (paywall) about misconceptions around the carbon tax.
April 2, 2024
- Department of Sociology Assistant Professor Jan Doering discusses in The Globe and Mail (paywall) his research on ambiguous discrimination in the workplace.
- Department of Political Science and School of the Environment Associate Professor Jessica Green explains on CBC Radio: The Current (09:35 mark) her findings on carbon taxes and emissions reduction.
- Department of Political Science and Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy University Professor Janice Stein talks to TVO: The Agenda about whether TikTok should be banned in Canada.
- Department of Geography & Planning Professor and School of Cities Infrastructure Institute Director Matti Siemiatycki comments for Spacing on the future of cyber attacks.
- Department of Psychology Assistant Professor Taryn Grieder talks to CHCH about the increase in opioid-related paramedic calls.
- Boston Globe (paywall) mentions Acceleration Consortium Director and Department of Chemistry Professor Alán Aspuru-Guzik as a co-founder of Zapata Computing, a generative AI which pioneers a software-first approach.
- Department of Political Science Professor Emeritus Nelson Wiseman comments for CTV News online on Canadian MPs’ salaries and their job demands.
- Department of Geography & Planning Professor and School of Cities Infrastructure Institute Director Matti Siemiatycki comments for the Toronto Star (paywall) The Globe and Mail (paywall) on the housing crisis in Toronto and Canada.
April 3, 2024
- The Globe and Mail (paywall) highlights School of Cities research on downtown recovery across North American cities.
- The university partners with the Toronto Public Library to provide solar eclipse-viewing glasses to the public, while Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics public outreach strategist Ilana MacDonald leads the Ontario Eclipse Task Force, as featured in University Affairs.
- Department of History Assistant Professor and International Relations Program at Trinity College Director Timothy Sayle comments for CBC: The National (02:27 mark) on Canada’s decision to join NATO.
- Department of Computer Science Professor Raquel Urtasun shares with The Globe and Mail (paywall) a new AI model used by her company, Waabi, to help self-driving cars better predict surrounding movement.
April 4, 2024
- Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics Assistant Professor Laurie Rousseau-Nepton shares with Radio-Canada and MétéoMédia what solar eclipses represent in Indigenous culture.
- Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics associate Julie Bolduc-Duval and PhD candidate Eesha Das Gupta share with CTV News online what to expect during the upcoming solar eclipse.
- Department of History Assistant Professor and International Relations Program at Trinity College Director Timothy Sayle talks to Newsweek and CBC online about the 75th anniversary of NATO.
- Aurel Braun, affiliated faculty at the Centre for European, Russian & Eurasian Studies at the Munk School talks to CBC Radio: The Early Edition about the 75th anniversary of NATO.
- Larissa Lai, a professor and the Richard Charles Lee Chair in Chinese Canadian Studies in the Canadian Studies Program at University College and the Department of English comments for The Globe and Mail (paywall) on architect Linda Zhang’s work and Toronto’s Chinatown.