December 15, 2023 by
A&S News
From the honour of being a Rhodes Scholar to a new report on racial profiling, 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.
December 8, 2023
- Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy affiliated faculty Aurel Braun discusses on Hamilton’s 900 CHML Radio Russian President Vladimir Putin’s announcement to run for president in 2024.
- Department of Psychology Professor Paul Bloom explains to NPR: TED Radio Hour why it can be enticing to break the rules.
- Department of Anthropology Professor Emeritus Marcel Danesi’s book Politics, Lies and Conspiracy Theories: A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective is noted by Salon.
- Department of Cell & Systems Biology PhD graduate Afif Aqrabawi, now a postdoctoral associate at MIT, shares with The Globe and Mail (paywall) research he conducted while at U of T on how scents are directly related to memory.
- A Department of Geography & Planning student study on mixed-use development in Toronto’s laneways is highlighted in The Globe and Mail (paywall).
December 10, 2023
- New Rhodes Scholar Tierrai Tull of the Department of Political Science and Woodsworth College is profiled in the Weekly Voice.
- Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society Director Gillian Hadfield comments for The Globe and Mail (paywall) on federal consultations on AI regulations, with mention of the Citizen Lab at the Munk School.
December 11, 2023
- Political Science Assistant Professor Eric Merkley discusses with La Presse (paywall) the impact of political parties’ strategies on increasing polarization in Canada.
- Department of History Professor Emeritus Robert Bothwell talks to Le Devoir (paywall) about the initiation of Quebec’s Gentilly‑1 nuclear power plant.
- New Rhodes Scholar Tierrai Tull talks to CBC Radio: Here and Now about what the honour means to her.
- Political Science and Munk School University Professor Janice Stein discusses on CBC: The National the Israel-Hamas peace process.
- Department of Philosophy PhD candidate Jasmine Tremblay D'Ettorre shares on CBC Radio: Information Morning (N.B.) the ethics around food insecurity.
- Jack Cunningham, program director of the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History and fellow at Trinity College, discusses on CTV News the hostage situation between Hamas and Israel.
December 12, 2023
- Alán Aspuru-Guzik, Department of Chemistry professor and director of the Acceleration Consortium, comments for USA Today on the use of AI for accelerated drug discovery.
- Department of East Asian Studies assistant professor Michelle Cho talks to CBC Radio: Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud about the significance of the Godzilla franchise on its 70th anniversary.
- Jack Cunningham comments for the Canadian Press on gridlocked U.S. aid for Ukraine, and talks to Hamilton’s 900 CHML Radio about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s shift in position on the Israel-Hamas war (40 minute mark).
- Aurel Braun discusses on Hamilton’s 900 CHML Radio the significance of the U.N. general assembly vote for a humanitarian ceasefire of the war in Gaza.
December 13, 2023
- Political Science and School of the Environment Associate Professor Jessica Green comments for CBC News online on the COP28 climate deal.
- Department of Computer Science University Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton and Professor Raquel Urtasun are noted in the Toronto Star (paywall) for their work with AI.
December 14, 2023
- Centre of Criminology & Sociolegal Studies Professor Scot Wortley shares with CBC News online, La Presse Canadienne and Toronto Star (paywall) a new report finding Black Torontonians continue to be racially profiled by police.
- Political Science Associate Professor Diana Fu, also director of the East Asia Seminar Series at the Munk School’s Asian Institute, and Mark Manger, associate professor of political economy and global affairs at the Munk School, are part of a CBC Radio: Ideas panel on diplomacy amid world conflicts.
- Aurel Braun discusses on CBC Radio: On the Coast (B.C.) and CBC Radio: Afternoon Drive (London and Windsor) Putin’s first press conference since the invasion of Ukraine.
- Raquel Urtasun shares with BNN Bloomberg and El Pais (paywall) how her company, Waabi, is disrupting the self-driving truck industry using AI.
- David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics Assistant Professor and Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics Associate Maria Drout shares with Inverse and LiveScience her discovery of massive stars that have been stripped of their hydrogen.
- Robert Bothwell discusses on CTV News the UN General Assembly’s vote for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war.