April 29, 2022 by
A&S News
From building new houses on top of fire stations to digging up century-old seeds at a Toronto construction site, 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 22, 2022
- Matti Siemiatycki, professor in the Department of Geography & Planning and director of the School of Cities Infrastructure Institute, discusses creative affordable housing solutions — including a proposal to build homes on top of fire stations — with CBC Radio: Here and Now and CityNews online.
April 23, 2022
- Researchers from the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology are studying newly sprouted century-old seeds and the surrounding soil uncovered during construction in Toronto’s Port Lands, as reported by the National Post (paywall).
April 24, 2022
- Researchers from the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy share their findings on Pegasus malware with The Times (paywall), Al Jazeera and the Associated Press, and later in the week with the Irish Times (paywall), Times of Israel and The Guardian.
April 25, 2022
- The Globe and Mail (paywall) mentions Department of Computer Science University Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton for his involvement in an alumnus-led health care start-up.
- Matti Siemiatycki considers the limitations of e-scooters as a main form of Toronto transportation with the Toronto Star (paywall).
- Department of Political Science professor emeritus Nelson Wiseman comments in the Toronto Star (paywall) on the Ontario NDP’s newly released election platform.
- Dan Breznitz, University Professor in the Department of Political Science and co-director of the Munk School’s Innovation Policy Lab, discusses his research on Canada’s innovation economy with The Globe and Mail (paywall).
April 26, 2022
- Vice-President International Joseph Wong of Political Science and the Munk School writes about the success of the Reach Alliance for Times Higher Education.
- Student Nicole Regimbal and adjunct professor Jonathan Ruppert of the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology share their research with Narcity about how eco-friendly infrastructure mitigates frog mortality in the GTA.
April 27, 2022
- Department of English professor Nick Mount is cited in the Toronto Star (paywall) for his book Arrival: The Story of CanLit.
- Monica Boyd, professor in the Department of Sociology, tells CBC News online that the country's birth rates are so low that immigration won't solve the problem of an aging population.
- Diana Fu, associate professor of Political Science and at the Munk School, tells Bloomberg (paywall) that China’s censors are having difficulty keeping up with tech-savvy citizens.
- In The Globe and Mail (paywall), Political Science and Munk School professor Sylvia Bashevkin comments on Madeleine Albright’s legacy as inspiration for women diplomats around the world.
April 28, 2022
- Ecology & Evolutionary Biology assistant professor Chelsea Rochman explains new research to Yahoo! News and Cosmos that shows microplastics are carrying land-based parasites to the ocean.
- Rinaldo Walcott, professor at the Women & Gender Studies Institute, shares his memories with CityNews about the 1992 Yonge Street protest in response to anti-Black racism.
- Rick Salutin, lecturer in Canadian Studies at University College, writes for the Toronto Star (paywall) about the drawbacks of virtual classes.