August 15, 2024 by
A&S News
From learning languages as a hyperpolyglot to anti-immigration protests in the U.K., 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 9, 2024
- The Logic (paywall) highlights Department of Computer Science and Department of Statistical Sciences Assistant Professor Ruslan Salakhutdinov who teaches at a summer school for emerging AI talent, with comments from former students and mentions of Professor Raquel Urtasun, Assistant Professor Jimmy Ba and Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton.
- Department of History Professor and Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy affiliated faculty Andres Kasekamp discusses on CTV News TV the latest developments in the Russia-Ukraine war.
- Human Biology Program sessional lecturer Kerry Bowman discusses in the National Post (paywall) the processes and ethics behind medical assistance in dying.
- Department of Geography & Planning Professor and School of Cities Infrastructure Institute Director Matti Siemiatycki comments for the Toronto Star (paywall) on construction delays of the TTC’s Pioneer Village station.
August 10, 2024
- Department of Sociology PhD student Kayla Preston talks to Global News TV about anti-immigration protests in the U.K.
August 11, 2024
- Department of Mathematics lecturer John Charles Fields is remembered in The Globe and Mail (paywall) for organizing the first International Congress of Mathematicians 100 years ago at Convocation Hall, with comments from Professor Kumar Murty and Fields Institute interim director Deirdre Haskell.
August 12, 2024
- Department of Spanish & Portuguese master’s student Xin Yi Lim shares on CBC Radio: Here and Now how she learned to speak six new languages over the course of her studies.
- Department of Political Science PhD candidate Valerie Kindarji discusses on iHeartRadio anti-immigration protests in the U.K.
August 13, 2024
- Eugene Lang, senior fellow at the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History at Trinity College writes in The Globe and Mail (paywall) about Canada’s defence spending.
- Aurel Braun, affiliated faculty at the Centre for European & Eurasian Studies (CEES) at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, comments for Global News TV on the latest developments in the Russia-Ukraine war.
August 14, 2024
- Rebekah Brown, senior researcher at the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, shares new findings of a cyberattack campaign linked to Russia with the Guardian (paywall), Reuters, Washington Post (paywall), Le Monde, Bloomberg (paywall) and The Globe and Mail (paywall).
- Department of Psychology Professor Geoff MacDonald shares insights with The Atlantic (paywall) on people’s biggest dating regrets.
- Department of History Professor and Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy affiliated faculty Andres Kasekamp talks to CBC: The Current about Ukraine’s incursion into Russia.
- Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy senior fellow Jon Allen comments for CBC News online on ongoing conflicts in the Middle East.
- The School of Cities found that Bike Share ridership in Toronto increased from about 665,000 trips in 2015 to over 4.6 million in 2022, as highlighted in the Toronto Star (paywall).