August 22, 2024 by
A&S News
From Generation Alpha to supermoons, 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.
August 15, 2024
- Rosemary McCarney, distinguished visitor at Trinity College, writes in The Globe and Mail (paywall) about the mpox public health emergency.
- Department of Sociology PhD student Kayla Preston comments for Global News TV on Canadians being warned against traveling to the U.K. amid riots.
August 16, 2024
- Department of English Professor and Vice-Dean, Undergraduate at the Faculty of Arts & Science Randy Boyagoda writes in The Atlantic (paywall) about British state-of-the-nation novels.
- Department of Linguistics Professor and Chair Sali Tagliamonte comments for the Canadian Press on widely used Generation Alpha slang words.
August 17, 2024
- Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics Director and Professor Suresh Sivanandam and Public Outreach, Communications & Events Strategist Ilana MacDonald discuss supermoons and blue moons with CTV News online.
- Department of Geography & Planning Professor and School of Cities Infrastructure Institute Director Matti Siemiatycki talks to CBC News online about flooding, funding and infrastructure for Canadian cities.
August 18, 2024
- Arif Lalani, distinguished fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, talks to CBC Radio: Sunday Magazine about the latest developments in the Middle East and between Russia and Ukraine.
August 19, 2024
- Department of Anthropology Professor Max Friesen shares with CBC Radio: Trailbreaker his research on beluga whale populations.
- Department of Physics postdoctoral fellow Gonzalo Alonso-Álvarez discusses with LiveScience his research on self-interacting dark matter and supermassive blackholes.
August 20, 2024
- Department of Art History Associate Professor SeungJung Kim writes in Korea JoongAng Daily about Korean food culture.
- Centre for Industrial Relations & Human Resources Director and Professor Rafael Gomez discusses with CBC Radio: Here and Now labour disputes involving railway workers.
- Citizen Lab researchers of the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy share their latest spyware discovery with The Globe and Mail podcast: The Decibel (paywall).
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology postdoctoral researcher Sebastian Theis talks to BNN Bloomberg about the necessity to balance profit-making with ecological sustainability.
- Department of Economics Professor Angelo Melino comments for NOW Toronto on Canada’s inflation.