October 7, 2022 by
A&S News
From personal reflection on the meaning behind Truth & Reconciliation to the ongoing trickle-down effects of the war in Ukraine, 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.
September 30, 2022
- Department of Psychology professor Paul Bloom reflects with The New York Times (paywall) on why experiencing pain — for example, enduring an intense workout — is meaningful.
- On Orange Shirt Day and the National Day for Truth & Reconciliation, Department of Political Science PhD student Riley Yesno tells the Toronto Star (paywall) about what reconciliation means to her.
- Lamiya Mowla and Kartheik Iyer, Dunlap Fellows at the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, share research with The Weather Network about the universe’s oldest globular clusters discovered using the James Webb Space Telescope.
- Department of Political Science and Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy University Professor Janice Stein discusses with the Toronto Star (paywall) the importance of the U.S. and Canada’s responses to Ukraine’s NATO bid.
October 2, 2022
- The Munk School’s Citizen Lab is covered in Reuters (paywall), Associated Press, Bloomberg Law (paywall), The Guardian and La Presse (paywall) for its investigation into Pegasus spyware attacks in Mexico.
- October 3, 2022
- Department of Anthropology associate professor Bence Viola comments for CBC Science on his colleague Svante Pääbo winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine.
- Department of Geography & Planning associate professor Michael Widener explains to Global News online that the war in Ukraine is causing global wheat distribution issues.
- Munk School fellow Mark Kersten writes in Al Jazeera online that prosecution for war crimes in Ukraine has been too slow.
- Judith Taylor, professor in the Department of Sociology and the Women & Gender Studies Institute, comments for the Toronto Star (paywall) and Toronto Sun on the proposed changes to the admission process of special-interest high schools in Toronto.
October 4, 2022
- School of Cities director and Department of Geography & Planning professor Karen Chapple tells The Globe and Mail (paywall) that the biggest improvements of Ontario’s new strong mayors bill will come from the budget process.
- Political Science professor emeritus Nelson Wiseman tells CBC News online that the general public isn’t interested in electoral reform in Quebec.
- Matti Siemiatycki, professor in the Department of Geography & Planning and director of the Infrastructure Institute at the School of Cities, tells CBC Radio: Metro Morning that building more bike lanes is a political issue (begins at 09:56 mark).
October 5, 2022
- Professor in the Department for the Study of Religion and cross-appointed to the Department of Anthropology Pamela Klassen talks to Fort Frances Times about the conference she organized that aims to improve how institutions and Indigenous communities work together.
- Department of Chemistry University Professor Emeritus John Polanyi is noted in The Globe & Mail (paywall) for hi