April 21, 2023 by
A&S News
From the federal public service strike to the meaning of positive empathy, 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.
April 14, 2023
- Department of Computer Science Professor Steve Engels explains to the Toronto Star (paywall) how the artificial intelligence program Auto-GPT works.
April 16, 2023
- Department of Physics graduate student Garett Brown talks to Newsweek about the chance of a rogue planet entering the solar system.
April 17, 2023
- David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics and St. Michael’s College Assistant Professor Adam Hincks talks to Space.com about the Atacama Cosmology Telescope revealing the most detailed map of dark matter yet.
- Department of Chemistry Professor Hui Peng and recent PhD graduate Steven Kutarna share with CTV News, CBC Radio and Yahoo! News their research on banned chemicals known as chlorinated paraffins in household products.
- Department of Earth Sciences Professor Miriam L. Diamond shares with the Guardian (paywall) and the Hamilton Spectator (paywall) her new research on toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS in food packaging.
- Department of Political Science Professor Emeritus Nelson Wiseman argues in the Hill Times (paywall) that many Canadians are pessimistic about the state of democracy.
- Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies Professor Emerita Mariana Valverde writes for the Hill Times (paywall) about the lack of internet access in northern and rural Canada.
- Ziggy Pleunis, Dunlap Fellow at the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, comments in Physics World on an upgrade to the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) radio telescope.
- Lynette Ong, associate professor of Political Science and the Asian Institute at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, talks to The Diplomat about how China “outsources” repression.
April 18, 2023
- Political Science and Munk School Professor Lucan Ahmad Way writes in Foreign Affairs (paywall) about the indictment of former U.S. president Donald Trump.
- Bill Marczak, John Scott-Railton, Bahr Abdul Razzak and Ron Deibert of the Citizen Lab at the Munk School share with Forbes (paywall), Washington Post (paywall), BNN Bloomberg online, Associated Press, La Press (paywall), The New York Times (paywall), Reuters (paywall), Al Jazeera, Haaretz, El Pais (paywall), ThePrint, Latin Times, Times of Israel and PCMag their discovery of new methods that cyber intelligence firm NSO Group uses to hack iPhones.
- Daily Hive highlights research from the School of Cities that tracks downtown Vancouver’s pandemic recovery using mobile phone data.
- Department of Economics Professor Emeritus Morley Gunderson shares with the Calgary Herald (paywall) his research on the impact of minimum wage on poverty.
April 19, 2023
- Jack Cunningham, program director of the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History and fellow at Trinity College, discusses with CTV News Channel the G7 foreign ministers’ meeting in Japan.
- Department of Anthropology Assistant Professor Nisrin Elamin talks to Al Jazeera about the escalating violence in Sudan, where she is currently located with her toddler.
- Department of History Assistant Professor and International Relations Program at Trinity College Director Timothy Andrews Sayle comments for the Toronto Star (paywall) on the lack of a declassification framework in Canada.
- Phillip Lipscy, associate professor of Political Science, as well as chair in Japanese Politics and Global Affairs and director of the Centre for the Study of Global Japan at the Munk School, comments for CTV News on an explosion during Japan’s prime minister’s speech.
April 20, 2023
- Centre for Industrial Relations & Human Resources Director and Professor Rafael Gomez talks to BNN Bloomberg about the federal public servant strike.
- Department of Psychology PhD candidate Greg Depow explains to the Toronto Star (paywall) his research on emotional responses — such as positive empathy — to social media.