April 22, 2022 by
A&S News
From GTA eco-friendly infrastructure to Canada’s innovation strategy, 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 15, 2022
- Senior undergraduate student Nicole Regimbal and adjunct professor Jonathan Ruppert of the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology share their research with The Weather Network, Toronto Star (paywall) CTV News online, Newstalk1010, and Yahoo! News Canada, about how eco-friendly infrastructure mitigates frog mortality in the GTA.
April 16, 2022
- In the National Post (paywall), Department of Psychology professor Paul Bloom identifies two types of chosen pain: one gives pleasure (found in things like spicy foods and hot baths) and the other (found in things like climbing mountains and having children) gives meaning and purpose.
- Department of Geography & Planning and School of Cities professor Matti Siemiatycki comments for the Toronto Star (paywall) about how real estate drives Toronto’s wealth gap.
April 18, 2022
- The Cochrane Times-Post highlights Department of Computer Science professor emeritus Ronald Baecker’s new book Digital Dreams Have Become Nightmares: What We Must Do, explaining that it challenges what we’ve learned about the internet and how may we live better.
- In this CityNews online story about Walmart’s decision to drop plastic shopping bags, Rafaela Gutierrez, program lead for the Ecology & Evolutionary Biology’s Trash Team, explains their report on shifting to reusable food containers.
- Elies Campo, John Scott-Railton, Bill Marczak and Ron Deibert of the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy discuss their work on how democracies spy on their citizens with The New Yorker (paywall), The Guardian, The Independent, The Associated Press, Politico and The Times (paywall).
- Lynette Ong, associate professor in the Department of Political Science and the Munk School’s Asian Institute, discusses China’s approach to the pandemic with Daily Mail and PBS.
April 19, 2022
- Dan Breznitz, University Professor in the Department of Political Science and co-director of the Munk School’s Innovation Policy Lab, discusses his work with the National Post and how the federal finance department should best chart a way forward for Canada’s innovation economy.
- Department of Computer Science professor Raquel Urtasun is profiled in the Toronto Star (paywall) for her driving simulator Waabi World.
April 20, 2022
- Ecology & Evolutionary Biology professor Jean-Bernard Caron and PhD candidate Joe Moysiuk share their recent research with the Toronto Star (paywall) on a new fossil that predates dinosaurs.
April 21, 2022
- Department of Political Science professor emeritus Nelson Wiseman writes for The Hill Times about what the Liberal-NDP agreement entails.
- Department of Economics and Munk School professor Jonathan Hall shares his research with the Wall Street Journal (paywall), Los Angeles Times (paywall) and FOX Online that finds highway death toll signs cause an uptick in crashes.
- Aurel Braun, professor of political science and international relations at the Munk School’s Centre for European, Russian &Eurasian Studies, analyzes the latest developments in the Russia-Ukraine war on CTV News Network.