December 13, 2024 by
A&S News
From the ongoing Canada Post strike to the fall of Syria’s Assad regime, 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.
November 29, 2024
- Department of Political Science and Munk School Asian Institute associate professor Lynette Ong discusses with BNN Bloomberg online tensions in Chinese society.
November 30, 2024
- Department of Political Science professor emeritus Nelson Wiseman comments for the Associated Press on Canada’s relationship with the U.S. following Donald Trump’s win.
December 1, 2024
- Department of Geography & Planning professor and School of Cities director Karen Chapple and Department of Geography & Planning professor and School of Cities Infrastructure Institute director Matti Siemiatycki discuss community developments in Toronto with the Toronto Star (paywall) and again with the Toronto Star (paywall).
- School of Cities adjunct professor Carolyn Whitzman talks to CBC Radio: The Sunday Magazine about her book that examines Canada’s housing crisis.
December 2, 2024
- Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy distinguished fellow Deanna Horton discusses on TVO: The Agenda the potential impact of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s tariff threat.
December 3, 2024
- Department of Economics and Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy associate professor Peter Morrow comments for The Globe and Mail (paywall) on global trade patterns.
- Centre for Industrial Relations & Human Resources professor and director Rafael Gomez talks to TVO: The Agenda about the role of binding arbitration in labour disputes.
- Human Biology Program sessional lecturer Kerry Bowman writes in the Toronto Star (paywall) about the Sudan war.
December 4, 2024
- Department of Biochemistry professor Robert Screaton comments for Agence-France Press on the link between diabetes and susceptibility to parasite infections.
December 5, 2024
- Centre for Industrial Relations & Human Resources professor and director Rafael Gomez comments for the Toronto Star (paywall) on the ongoing Canada Post strike.
- Department of Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations postdoctoral fellow Azadeh Momeni writes in the Hamilton Spectator (paywall) about the women’s rights movement in Iran.
December 6, 2024
- Department of Geography & Planning professor and School of Cities director Karen Chapple shares insights with Radio-Canada online, CityNews online and TVO online on new School of Cities research about transit project costs in Canada. The Toronto Star (paywall) highlights this new report later in the week.
- Centre for Industrial Relations & Human Resources professor and director Rafael Gomez discusses in the Toronto Star (paywall) the latest Canada Post strike updates.
- Human Biology Program sessional lecturer Kerry Bowman discusses with the National Post (paywall) how MAID is practiced in Canada.
- Victoria College academic programs director Ira Wells writes in The Walrus (paywall) about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s political career, with comments from Department of Political Science professor emeritus Nelson Wiseman.
December 7, 2024
- Department of Art History associate professor Joseph Clarke talks to CBC News about the Notre-Dame Cathedral reopening ceremony.
- Department of Philosophy professor Mark Kingwell shares his new book, Question Authority, with the Toronto Star (paywall).
December 8, 2024
- Department of Computer Science University Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton speaks about artificial intelligence from Stockholm, ahead of receiving his Nobel Prize in physics, as reported by The Globe and Mail (paywall) and Canadian Press.
- Department of Political Science and Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy professor Randall Hansen comments for CBC News online on the future of Syria following the fall of the Assad regime.
December 9, 2024
- Department of Computer Science University Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton is profiled on Swedish Public Television, along with his Nobel co-winner.
December 10, 2024
- Department of Computer Science University Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton receives his Nobel Prize at a ceremony in Stockholm as the U of T community cheers him on. IT director John DiMarco, assistant professor Joseph Jay Williams and students share their excitement about Hinton’s win from the watch party at the Schwartz Reisman Innovation Campus. As covered by The Globe and Mail (paywall), Deutsche Welle online, CBC: The National, CBC News online, Canadian Press online and video, CTV National News, CTV online, Global News, The Logic (paywall), BetaKit and more.
- Department of Computer Science associate professor Roger Grosse and assistant professor Florian Shkurti are highlighted in Forbes (paywall) as part of Schmidt Sciences’ newest cohort of AI2050 Fellows.
December 11, 2024
- David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics professor and chair Roberto Abraham and Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics alumna Lamiya Mowla and Kartheik Iyer share with The Globe and Mail (paywall) new research on galaxy evolution using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.
- Human Biology Program sessional lecturer Kerry Bowman comments for the National Post (paywall) public perception of Canada’s response to COVID-19.
- Department of Political Science and Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy professor Phillip Lipscy talks to Global News about the shift towards a four-day workweek.
- Department of Political Science professor and Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy Citizen Lab director Ron Deibert and Citizen Lab senior researcher Noura Al-Jizawi discuss on CBC: The National how foreign governments threaten activists in Canada.
- Citizen Lab research fellow Gary Miller and senior research associate Kate Robertson share with The Globe and Mail (paywall) how Canada’s telecom providers respond to cyberattacks.
December 12, 2024
- Citizen Lab senior research associate Kate Robertson talks to The Globe and Mail (paywall) about a controversial United Nations cybercrime treaty.