March 7, 2025 by
A&S News
From tensions between the U.S. and Ukraine presidents to the presence of microplastics in paint, 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.
February 28, 2025
- University Professor Janice Stein of the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy; Munk School’s Centre for European & Eurasian Studies (CEES) affiliated faculty member Aurel Braun; and Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies associate professor and Munk School affiliated faculty member Matthew Light discuss on CBC: The National, CBC News online, CBC News online and CHCH News tension between U.S. president Donald Trump and Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
- Lucan Way, co-director of the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, talks to CBC Radio: The Current about the state of U.S. democracy.
- Department of Anthropology professor David Begun shares with CBC Radio: Quirks & Quarks his research on the tiniest member of the great ape family.
- Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics assistant professor Laurie Rousseau-Nepton talks to Radio-Canada about her career as the first Indigenous woman in Canada to obtain a degree in astrophysics.
March 1, 2025
- Department of Earth Sciences and School of the Environment professor Miriam L. Diamond shares with Radio-Canada online her research on the presence of forever chemicals in clothing.
- Department of Philosophy professor Mark Kingwell writes in The Globe and Mail (paywall) about the significance of eggs in today’s culture.
March 2, 2025
- Department of Philosophy professor and Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy sessional lecturer Joseph Heath argues in The New York Times (paywall) that Democrats need a Project 2029 initiative.
- Department of Political Science associate professor Olga Chyzh writes in The Guardian about the meeting between U.S. president Donald Trump and Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
March 3, 2025
- Centre for Industrial Relations & Human Resources PhD student Laura Lam shares with The Walrus her research on the experiences of foreign workers in Canada.
- Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy professor Timothy Snyder hosts a conversation with the Ukrainian Archbishop on CBC Radio: Ideas.
- Department of Political Science professor emeritus Nelson Wiseman talks to TVO: The Agenda and the National Post about Ontario premier Doug Ford’s third consecutive majority win.
- Department of Economics associate professor Joseph Steinberg fact checks for the Agence France Press U.S. president Donald Trump’s claims about Canadian imports.
- Department of History professor Dimitry Anastakis comments for Radio-Canada online on the impact of tariffs on the auto industry.
March 4, 2025
- Department of Political Science assistant professor Semra Sevi comments for Al Jazeera on the latest developments with the Liberal Party.
- Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy professor Drew Fagan writes in The Globe and Mail (paywall) about the evolution of free trade.
March 5, 2025
- Department of Political Science professor emeritus Nelson Wiseman comments for the Associated Press on Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s speech in response to U.S. tariffs.
- New books by Centre for Industrial Relations & Human Resources and Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies associate professor Padraic X. Scanlan, Victoria College Academic Programs Director Ira Wells and Department of Political Science professor and Citizen Lab director Ron Deibert are highlighted by CBC online, CBC online and CBC online.
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology postdoctoral fellow Zoie Diana shares with the Daily Mail her research on the presence of microplastics in paint.
- University Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton of the Department of Computer Science and alum Yann LeCun join the advisory board of a U.K. startup using AI to discover new chemicals and materials, as noted by Fortune (paywall).
- Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy professor Drew Fagan and Department of Economics and Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy associate professor Peter Morrow weigh in on tariffs and the economy for CNN online, CBC online and CBC online.
March 6, 2025
- Department of English professor and vice-dean, undergraduate at the Faculty of Arts & Science Randy Boyagoda shares insights with CBC Radio: The Morning Edition from his role fostering productive conversations.
- Department of History professor Dimitry Anastakis writes in The Globe and Mail (paywall) about why American carmakers came to Canada in the 1960s.
- Department of History professor emerita Margaret MacMillan discusses Trump’s tariff threats on Financial Post: Down to Business podcast.
- Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics public outreach, communications & events strategist Ilana MacDonald explains for the Toronto Star (paywall) how to view the “blood moon” total lunar eclipse.
- Eugene Lang, senior fellow at the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History at Trinity College, writes in The Globe and Mail (paywall) about how Liberal Party leader contenders are responding to U.S. tariffs.