May 6, 2022 by
A&S News
From how Canadians approach pain and suffering to why fame lives on after death, 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.
April 29, 2022
- Department of Economics and Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy professor Jonathan Hall shares his research with Cosmos that finds highway death toll signs cause an uptick in crashes.
April 30, 2022
- Economics professor emeritus Gustavo Indart writes in the Toronto Star (paywall) about the possible impact the Bank of Canada rate could have on inflation.
- Wayne Sumner, professor emeritus in the Department of Philosophy, discusses evolving perspectives on medical assistance in dying with the Toronto Star (paywall).
May 1, 2022
- Ksenya Kiebuzinski, co-director of the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine at the Munk School’s Centre for European, Russian & Eurasian Studies and head of the Petro Jacyk Central & East European Resource Centre for the University of Toronto Libraries, shares a handpicked selection of rare Ukrainian texts from the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library on CBC Radio: Sunday Magazine.
- Munk School fellow Martin Regg Cohn writes in the Toronto Star (paywall) about a recent conference on the risks and realities of social media AI.
- Senior undergraduate student Nicole Regimbal and adjunct professor Jonathan Ruppert of the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology share their research with the Toronto Sun on how eco-friendly infrastructure mitigates frog mortality in the GTA.
May 2, 2022
- Department of Political Science lecturer Pauline Beange tells CBC News online that recent changes to political fundraising laws are good for voters.
- Dan Breznitz, University Professor in the Department of Political Science and co-director of the Munk School’s Innovation Policy Lab, shares an excerpt from his book Innovation in Real Places with Hill Times (paywall).
- Former premier Kathleen Wynne, now professor of public policy at Trinity and Victoria Colleges, talks to Chatelaine about mentorship for the next generation of political leaders.
- The Toronto Star (paywall) references Economics professor emeritus David Foot’s book Boom, Bust and Echo in light of the recent StatCan report on Canada’s aging population.
- In the National Post (paywall), assistant Political Science professor Eric Merkley comments on the likelihood of a provincial NDP and Liberal partnership.
- The Globe and Mail notes Department of History and Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies professor Doris Bergen’s interpretive planning role in the creation of Ottawa’s National Holocaust Monument.
- Citizen Lab researchers Ron Deibert and John Scott-Railton share their findings with The New York Times, The Economist, Associated Press, El Pais, The Irish Times and CBC online on the use of spyware against Catalan opposition leaders.
May 3, 2022
- Judith Taylor, professor in the Department of Sociology and the Women & Gender Studies Institute, writes in the Toronto Star (paywall) about how the TDSB’s current strategy to build equity in the arts falls short.
- CBC Books highlights Sharon English, lecturer in the Writing & Rhetoric program at Innis College, and her newly published novel Night in the World.
May 4, 2022
- blogTO references Faculty of Arts & Science Dean Melanie Woodin’s past statement on Sidney Smith Hall redevelopment plans.
- Department of English professor emerita Heather Jackson discusses the circumstances that lead to posthumous literary fame, in this Scientific American piece on the Beatles’ enduring popularity.
- Matti Siemiatycki, professor in the Department of Geography & Planning and director of the School of Cities Infrastructure Institute, discusses the debate over Highway 413 in the current Ontario election campaign with the Toronto Star, National Post and CTV Toronto.
May 5, 2022
- Diana Fu, associate professor of Political Science and at the Munk School, talks about civil society in Hong Kong with CNN online.