August 13, 2021 by
A&S News
From long-lasting toxins used in makeup showing up in lakes and drinking water to the expected announcement of a federal election in Canada next month, 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.
August 6, 2021
- Department of Earth Sciences professor Miriam Diamond comments in a Cottage Life story examining the presence of long-lasting toxins from makeup found in lakes and drinking water.
August 7, 2021
- On CBC Radio’s Quirks and Quarks, Heidi White, a PhD student in the David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, answers a question from a listener about whether stars follow orbits (listen at 13:30).
- Ryan Wolfe, a graduate student in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, speaks in Canadian Geographic about his efforts to protect Blue Racer snakes, Ontario’s most endangered snake species.
August 8, 2021
- Department of Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations professor and chair Timothy Harrison, leader of the Tell Tayinat archaeological project in southern Turkey, is featured in Hürriyet Daily News.
August 9, 2021
- Mark McGowan, a professor in the Department of History and interim principal of St. Michael’s College, comments in a CBC News story investigating the authenticity of an allegedly 176-year old letter and connections to a land claim put forth by the Algonquins of Ontario.
- John Kirton, a professor in the Department of Political Science and director of the G7 and G20 Research Groups at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, comments in a Maclean’s magazine story examining Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau’s position as the longest-serving current leader of a G7 country.
- Miriam Diamond comments in USA Today on the importance of cleaning dust from household surfaces.
- Department of Statistical Sciences professor Jeffrey Rosenthal writes a Toronto Star op-ed examining false starts at Olympic events and how randomness could eliminate them and prevent disqualification of athletes.
August 11, 2021
- Lynette Ong, an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and the Asian Institute at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, comments in The Guardian, Al Jazeera, France 24 and CNN on the prison sentence handed down to a Canadian detained in China on charges of spying.
- Philip Lipscy, an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and director of the Centre for the Study of Global Japan at the Munk School, comments in Al Jazeera on Japan’s upcoming national elections in the wake of the Olympic games.
- Alexandra Rahr, Bissell-Heyd Lecturer in American Studies at the Munk School’s Centre for the Study of the United States, comments in a BBC News story examining the prevalence of heatwaves across western Canada and the U.S.
August 12, 2021
- Robert Bothwell, a professor emeritus in the Department of History and the International Relations program at Trinity College, comments in an Associated Press story on the expected announcement of a federal election in Canada in September.