August 25, 2023 by
A&S News
From how research into star formation connects to Innu culture to the affordable housing crisis, 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.
August 18, 2023
- Department of English Professor and Vice-dean, Undergraduate of the Faculty of Arts & Science Randy Boyagoda writes in The Globe and Mail (paywall) about the Canadian National Exhibition.
- David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics and Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics Assistant Professor Laurie Rousseau-Nepton discusses with CBC Radio: Fresh Air, Yahoo! News and Turtle Island News the National Film Board of Canada documentary series about her research into star formation and connections to Innu culture, titled North Star.
- Department of Psychology Professor Paul Frankland shares with Psychology Today his new research on the nature of forgetting, which is a functional and at times beneficial feature of the brain.
- Department of Geography & Planning Professor and Infrastructure Institute at the School of Cities Director Matti Siemiatycki discusses with CTV Your Morning the affordable housing crisis in Canada.
- Beth Savan, senior lecturer emerita at the School of the Environment, comments for CBC News online on the potential parking tax in Toronto.
August 21, 2023
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Assistant Professor Chelsea Rochman shares with FOX News online her research on microplastics in the Great Lakes.
- Department of Political Science and Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy University Professor Janice Stein discusses with The New York Times (paywall) military scenarios that may trigger a nuclear launch.
- Department of Philosophy Professor Donald Ainslie shares with The Globe and Mail (paywall) the vision behind the redesign of University College.
August 22, 2023
- Matti Siemiatycki discusses on the Toronto Star podcast: This Matters whether the Greenbelt is needed for housing.
August 23, 2023
- Centre for Industrial Relations & Human Resources Director and Professor Rafael Gomez provides insights to Toronto Star (paywall) on the Metro grocers strike.
- Department of East Asian Studies Assistant Professor Michelle Cho tells Billboard that music fans will boost artists’ performance and protect them from industry metrics which hinder their visibility.
- Aurel Braun, affiliated faculty at the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at the Munk School, discusses on Channel News Asia the Yevgeny Prigozhin plane crash.
August 24, 2023
- Director of the Institute on Municipal Finance & Governance at the School of Cities Enid Slack explains to CBC News online Toronto’s tax options.
- Matti Siemiatycki talks to the National Post (paywall) and Toronto Star about car culture and condo developments.
- Munk School senior fellow Brian Lewis writes in the Financial Post (paywall) about the rental housing crisis.