December 9, 2022 by
A&S News
From the Mauna Loa volcano eruption in Hawaii to the ethics of AI-generated portraits, scholars 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.
December 2, 2022
- Department of Political Science Associate Professor Diana Fu, also director of the East Asia Seminar Series at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy’s Asian Institute, tells Reuters (paywall) and Times of India (paywall) that protestors in China know what lines not to cross with authorities.
- Department of Political Science and School of the Environment Associate Professor Jessica Green tells The Guardian that Canada still has among the highest per capita emissions in the world.
December 3, 2022
- Department of Psychology professor Paul Bloom’s research on human nature and cruelty is cited in an El Pais (paywall) story about how Nazi propaganda dehumanized Jewish people to facilitate the Holocaust.
- Institute of Islamic Studies Director Anver Emon, who is also a professor in the Department of History, comments for CTV News online on an academic review of the Canada Revenue Agency’s auditing practices of Muslim charities.
- Michael Higgins, distinguished fellow at the University of St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto, writes in The Globe and Mail (paywall) that the Vatican’s current papal approach toward Moscow and Beijing illustrates the limitations of diplomacy.
- Kevin Edmonds, assistant professor of Caribbean Studies at New College, writes in the Toronto Star (paywall) that he is skeptical of Canada’s intentions to restore democracy in Haiti.
- The Munk School’s Citizen Lab work exposing the threat and reach of the global spyware industry is highlighted throughout the week by The New York Times (paywall), The Washington Post (paywall), Politico, Financial Post (paywall), The Guardian CBC News online and Daily Monitor Uganda.
- Department of Geography & Planning and School of Cities Professor Matti Siemiatycki tells CBC News online that he isn’t surprised Ontario isn’t interested in taking over the responsibility of Toronto highways like the Gardiner Expressway and Don Valley Parkway. He also comments for CityNews online on other development options that the provincial government should be considering instead of using Greenbelt land.
December 4, 2022
- Department of Political Science and Asian Institute associate professor Lynette Ong comments for The Guardian and Deutsche Welle online on the COP15 summit and the pandemic.
- Department of Political Science Assistant Professor Uahikea Maile discusses with CNN online and CTV News online the significance of the Mauna Loa volcano eruption in Hawaii.
December 5, 2022
- Jeff Allen, data scientist at the School of Cities, shares with Daily Hive and BlogTO a new tool that showcases Toronto from above as it looked generations ago.
- Cherry Ng, project scientist at the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, tells LiveScience that South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope will scan over one million stars during the next two years.
December 6, 2022
- For The Canadian Jewish News, Department of Sociology Professor Robert Brym analyzes Canada’s 2021 census data to provide a new understanding about the country’s Jewish community.
- Maclean’s highlights Department of Computer Science Professor Raquel Urtasun as one of 2023’s bright lights in tech.
- Department of Sociology and Munk School Professor Ito Peng tells The Globe and Mail (paywall) that China’s low fertility and declining number of working-age population will result in slower economic growth.
December 7, 2022
- Department of Anthropology Professor Edward Banning comments for Science on the standard way that villages were built in the early Neolithic period in Turkey.
December 8, 2022
- As noted in Fortune (paywall), Department of Economics Assistant Professor Tianyi Wang co-authors a paper on the impact of robots on jobs.
- Institute for the History & Philosophy of Science & Technology and Department of Philosophy Assistant Professor Karina Vold discusses with CBC Radio: As It Happens the ethics of AI-generated portraits that have gained popularity on social media.