November 29, 2024 by
A&S News
From Toronto’s bike lane debate to unionization efforts at Amazon, 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
November 22, 2024
- Department of English professor Ian Williams delivers the 2024 Massey Lectures on how to connect even when we disagree, as highlighted by CBC News.
- Human Biology Program sessional lecturer Kerry Bowman talks to CTV: Your Morning about the company 23andMe.
November 23, 2024
- Department of Computer Science University Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton and IT director John DiMarco discuss AI research at the university on Globo TV: Brazil.
- Cinema Studies Institute assistant professor Brett Story talks to the Toronto Star (paywall) about the documentary she co-directed about unionization efforts at Amazon.
- Department of Geography & Planning professor and School of Cities Infrastructure Institute director Matti Siemiatycki discusses on Global News the importance of the investigation into what caused Calgary’s massive water feeder main break in the summer.
- Jack Cunningham, program director of the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History and fellow at Trinity College, talks to CP24 about the uncertainty facing NATO and Ukraine.
November 24, 2024
- Department of Earth Sciences and School of the Environment professor Miriam L. Diamond and the U of T Trash Team share with Radio-Canada: Découverte their research on plastic pollution (4 min 30 sec mark; 22 min mark).
- Ella Kokotsis of the G20 Research Group based at Trinity College analyzes the new global climate finance agreement for CBC News.
- Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy Citizen Lab doctoral fellow Gabrielle Lim shares insights with TVO: Big [If True] on election misinformation.
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology research fellow Tiziana Gelmi Candusso tells CBC News that feeding coyotes leads to increased human-coyote interactions and potential attacks.
November 25, 2024
- Victoria College student Noah Rudder talks to CBC Radio: Metro Morning and Trinidad & Tobago Guardian about earning a Rhodes Scholarship.
November 26, 2024
- Department of Art History associate professor SeungJung Kim writes in JoongAng Korea Daily about Korean identity.
- Department of Earth Sciences and School of the Environment professor Miriam L. Diamond comments for CBC News online on a study revealing harmful metals in Whitehorse’s groundwater.
- Department of Psychology assistant professor, teaching stream William Ryan talks to the
- Toronto Star (paywall) about the word of the year.
November 27, 2024
- Department of English professor and vice-dean, undergraduate at the Faculty of Arts & Science Randy Boyagoda writes in The Atlantic (paywall) about the latest novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami.
- School of the Environment lecturer emeritus Beth Savan advocates in CBC News online for an environmental assessment of Ontario’s Highway 413 project.
- On TVO: The Agenda, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy senior fellow Jon Allen weighs in on whether Trump’s administration can bring stability to the Middle East.
- Citizen Lab senior researcher Jeffrey Knockel shares with the Waterloo Region Record his research on banned books on Amazon.
November 28, 2024
- Department of Psychology PhD candidate Elaine Hoan and professor Geoff MacDonald talk to People online about their study that finds single women are happier than single men.
- Data Sciences Institute postdoctoral fellow Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher writes in The Globe and Mail (paywall) about the bike lane debate.
- Department of Philosophy professor Mark Kingwell discusses his new book on trust in authority on TVO: The Agenda (paywall) and offers advice on relationship dilemmas in the Toronto Star (paywall).
- For Radio-Canada online, Department of Geography & Planning professor and School of Cities Infrastructure Institute director Matti Siemiatycki weighs in on what Toronto transit could look like by 2050.
- School of Cities adjunct professor Carolyn Whitzman advocated in CBC News online for a consistent definition of affordability in housing