June 7, 2024 by
A&S News
From the impact of Donald Trump’s guilty verdict to the global public opinion of AI, 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.
May 31, 2024
- Lucan Way, co-director of the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, discusses with Foreign Affairs (paywall) the impact of Donald Trump’s guilty verdict.
June 1, 2024
- Department of Geography & Planning Professor and School of Cities Infrastructure Institute Director Matti Siemiatycki talks to CBC News online about construction solutions for overcrowded schools.
June 2, 2024
- Department of English Professor and Vice-Dean, Undergraduate at the Faculty of Arts & Science Randy Boyagoda writes in the Financial Times (paywall) about the European Union's call to arms.
- Department of Political Science Professor and Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy Director Peter Loewen shares with BNN Bloomberg his report that reveals global public opinion on AI.
June 3, 2024
- Department of Political Science PhD candidate Yojana Miraya Oscco shares with Radio-Canada online insights on Indigenous consent for industrial mining projects.
- Human Biology Program sessional lecturer Kerry Bowman comments for Global News online on the risk of bird flu becoming more transmissible.
- Aurel Braun, affiliated faculty at the Centre for European, Russian & Eurasian Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, talks to CBC Radio: Edmonton AM about the latest developments in the Russia-Ukraine war.
- Victoria College Academic Programs Director Ira Wells writes in The Globe and Mail (paywall) about the book publishing industry in Canada.
June 4, 2024
- Department of Mathematics Professor Emeritus Peter Rosenthal is remembered in The Globe and Mail (paywall) for his legal advocacy work, with comment from his son Department of Statistical Sciences Professor Jeffrey Rosenthal.
- School of Cities research on downtown post-pandemic recovery is highlighted by ABC News online.
June 5, 2024
- Department of History Professor Emerita Margaret MacMillan discusses on BBC Radio the impact of Donald Trump’s guilty verdict.
June 6, 2024
- Department of Geography & Planning Professor and School of Cities Infrastructure Institute Director Matti Siemiatycki comments for the Toronto Star (paywall) on gridlock traffic on the Gardiner Expressway.
- The Economist (paywall) highlights a 2012 study from Department of Psychology Professor Emerita Lynn Hasher that found early risers tend to feel happier and healthier than late sleepers.