January 12, 2024 by
A&S News
From discontentment in the workplace to new research on microplastic contamination, 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.
January 5, 2024
- Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies Associate Professor and Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy affiliated faculty Matthew Light discusses with CBC News online the false information law in Russia.
- Department of Sociology Professor Scott Schieman writes in The Globe and Mail (paywall) about the effect of negative news about work on employee satisfaction.
- Department of Philosophy Professor Mark Kingwell writes in The Globe and Mail (paywall) about the resignations of two high-profile U.S. university presidents.
- Department of Anthropology Associate Professor Bence Viola shares with Big Think a study on Neanderthal family life.
January 6, 2024
- Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies Professor Emerita Mariana Valverde comments in a Toronto Star story examining efforts to evade a municipal bylaw regarding short-term rental accommodations in Toronto.
January 7, 2024
- Department of Cell & Systems Biology PhD student Phillip Oelbaum explains to the Jamaican Observer his research on bats and what influences their presence at certain sites in Jamaica.
- Aurel Braun, affiliated faculty at the Centre for European, Russian & Eurasian Studies at the Munk School discusses on CTV News and CTV News United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s tour in the Middle East and the strategy to deescalate the war.
January 8, 2024
- Munk School Master of Public Policy candidate David Jones argues in the Financial Post (paywall) that Ottawa must hold firm to fiscal projections in the fall economic statement.
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology postdoctoral fellow Zoie Diana comments for the Associated Press on a study that found a quarter million invisible nanoplastic particles in a litre of bottled water.
January 9, 2024
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology alum Madeleine Milne shares her research with FOX news online, Daily Mail and New York Post that finds widespread microplastic contamination in meat and plant-based protein products.
- School of the Environment Director and Department of Computer Science Professor Steve Easterbrook explains to CHCH TV the impacts of climate change on winter precipitation.
January 10, 2024
- Department of Political Science Assistant Professor Olga Chyzh writes in The Guardian about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s power ahead of the presidential election in Russia.
- Vice-President International Joseph Wong of the Department of Political Science and the Munk School comments for University Affairs on the benefits of a diverse student population.
- Munk School affiliated faculty Izumi Sakamoto, who is an associate professor at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, discusses with BBC online hiring practices for immigrants.
January 11, 2024
- School of Cities Director and Department of Geography & Planning Professor Karen Chapple shares with the Toronto Star (paywall) new data on post-pandemic recovery in Toronto’s Financial District.