August 1, 2024 by
A&S News
From corporations offering carbon offsets to manage brand reputation, to the impact of rising rents on the viability of small businesses in Toronto, 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.
July 25, 2024
- Department of Political Science and School of the Environment professor Jessica Green comments for NPR on the offering of carbon offsets by corporations to manage brand reputation.
- Department of Geography & Planning professor Matti Siemiatycki, director of the Infrastructure Institute at the School of Cities, describes increasing traffic congestion in Toronto’s Liberty Village on CP24.
July 26, 2024
- Ryan Hurl, assistant professor, teaching stream in the Department of Political Science, comments for Global News on U.S. president Joe Biden’s decision to drop out of the presidential race.
- Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy senior fellow Jon Allen comments in CBC News on a meeting between former U.S. president Donald Trump and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
- Mark Entwistle, a senior fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, comments in a BNN Bloomberg story on Cuba’s move to ban emerging entrepreneurs from using U.S. bank accounts.
July 27, 2024
- Department of Physics postdoctoral fellow Gonzalo Alonso-Álvarez comments for the BBC’s Science Focus on his research exploring the connection between supermassive black holes and dark matter.
July 29, 2024
- Gonzalo Alonso-Álvarez further describes his research into supermassive black holes and dark matter for Space.
July 30, 2024
- Department of History professor Dimitry Anastakis comments in CBC News on the stature of Canadian auto industry executive Frank Stronach amid an ongoing sexual assault investigation.
- Department of East Asian Studies assistant professor Michelle Cho examines tensions among some of K-pop's biggest industry leaders on CBC Radio’s Commotion.
- Alejandro Izquierdo-López describes in CNN the discovery of a marine creature that lived roughly 505 million years ago during research he undertook earning a PhD in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology.
- Department of Political Science professor and U of T vice-president, international Joe Wong, host of Joe’s Basketball Diaries, comments in the Toronto Star on the 30th anniversary of the Toronto Raptors and the team’s impact on basketball across Canada.
July 31, 2024
- Department of Earth Sciences and School of the Environment professor Miriam L. Diamond speaks in Science News on the dangers of exposure to so-called forever chemicals.
- Department of Geography & Planning professor and School of Cities director Karen Chapple comments in the Toronto Star on the impact of rising rents on the viability of small businesses in Toronto.