March 15, 2024 by
A&S New
From civil unrest in Haiti to managing emotional labour, 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.
March 8, 2024
- Department of Earth Sciences and School of the Environment Professor Miriam L. Diamond tells Global News online that Health Canada should review over-the-counter acne treatments that an independent lab reported could contain a cancer-causing chemical.
- Aurel Braun, affiliated faculty at the Centre for European, Russian & Eurasian Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, discusses on CHML Radio Russia’s reaction to Finland and Sweden joining NATO and the latest on the war in Ukraine.
- Researchers of the Citizen Lab at the Munk School find no overt data transmission by TikTok to the Chinese government, as reported by South China Morning Post (paywall).
- Department of Political Science Assistant Professor Eric Merkley writes in Policy Options about how so-called NIMBYism and opposition to local housing developments are feeding into Canada’s housing crisis.
March 9, 2024
- Department of Computer Science Assistant Professor Fanny Chevalier discusses with Radio-Canada the experience of women working in predominantly male environments.
- Department of Geography & Planning Professor and Infrastructure Institute at the School of Cities Director Matti Siemiatycki comments for CBC News online on Toronto city council’s plan to transform city-owned parking.
March 11, 2024
- Jack Cunningham, program director of the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History and fellow at Trinity College, discusses on CTV News and CTV News the civil unrest in Haiti.
March 13, 2024
- Department of Psychology Professor Paul Bloom discusses with KCRW how balancing work with leisure and free time may lead to a healthier and happier retirement.
- Researchers of the Citizen Lab at the Munk School explore TikTok’s political censorship of posts, as reported by South China Morning Post (paywall).
- Aurel Braun, affiliated faculty at the Centre for European, Russian & Eurasian Studies at the Munk School writes in The Globe and Mail (paywall) about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s expected victory in Russia’s election.
- Department of Sociology Professor Scott Schieman comments for the The Globe and Mail (paywall) on the importance of recognition and support in managing emotional labour.
- Department of History Assistant Professor and International Relations Program at Trinity College Director Timothy Sayle is noted in the Hill Times (paywall) for his Canada Declassified project that aims to fill gaps in public information not made easily accessible by the government.
March 14, 2024
- Centre for Caribbean Studies Assistant Professor Kevin Edmonds comments for CityNews on factors contributing to the recent wave of gang violence in Haiti.
- Department of Psychology Professors Alison Chasteen and Allison Sekuler talk to TVO: The Agenda about how ageism affects the elderly, and a study by Psychology Professor Jed Meltzer on talking speed and brain health.
- Department of History and Caribbean Studies Associate Professor Melanie Newton comments for the Toronto Star (paywall) on the link between Haiti’s political history and gang violence.
- Department of English Professor and Vice-Dean, Undergraduate at the Faculty of Arts & Science Randy Boyagoda writes in the Financial Times (paywall) about the advantages of the print version of a newspaper.
- Department of Earth Sciences and School of the Environment Professor Miriam L. Diamond comments for Scientific American on a new report that highlights more than 4,200 plastic chemicals linked to health and environmental risks.
- Trinity College instructor Leanne Toshiko Simpson shares with the Toronto Star (paywall) her new book that explores mental illness through a romantic comedy lens.
- Citizen Lab research fellow Pellaeon Lin shares with Al Jazeera and ABC News online his research on political censorship and data collection on TikTok.