December 16, 2022 by
A&S News
From a major breakthrough in nuclear fusion to the history of Black dancing in Canada, 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.
December 9, 2022
- Department of Political Science and Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy’s Asian Institute Associate Professor Lynette Ong tells Reuters that protestors of China’s COVID-19 restrictions may await further prosecution by the government. She also appears on TVO: The Agenda to discuss whether the protests forced China to change its zero-COVID-19 policy.
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology University Professor Marie-Josée Fortin shares with CGTN her experiences of biodiversity conservation from a spatial planning perspective.
- Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies Assistant Professor Seika Boye talks to CBC Radio: Metro Morning about the exhibition she curated, It’s About Time: Dancing Black in Canada 1900-1970.
- Jack Cunningham, program director of the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History at Trinity College, and Aurel Braun, professor of political science and at the Munk School’s Centre for European, Russian & Eurasian Studies, talk to CTV News Channel and CBC News Channel about WNBA player Brittney Griner’s release from prison in Russia.
- Centre for Industrial Relations & Human Resources Director and Professor Rafael Gomez comments for CTV News online on the law that is still in place prohibiting unvaccinated health care workers to work. Later in the week, he comments for CBC News online about how demographic trends are impacting Canada’s labour market.
December 10, 2022
- Ron Deibert, director of the Citizen Lab at the Munk School and professor in the Department of Political Science, writes in Foreign Affairs (paywall) about the spyware revolution he helps expose.
- Centre of Criminology & Sociolegal Studies Professor Scot Wortley’s report on Halifax police racial profiling is mentioned in the Cape Breton Post, as historical street check data may be purged from police records.
- December 11, 2022
- The National Post (paywall) references a research paper published by Ontario 360, an independent public policy project hosted by the Munk School, warning about the so-called invisible waitlist for medical appointments.
- CTV News online mentions research by Lamiya Mowla and Kartheik Iyer, Dunlap Fellows at the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, about the universe’s oldest globular clusters discovered using the James Webb Space Telescope.
December 12, 2022
- Department of Chemistry University Professor Mark Lautens writes in The Globe and Mail (paywall) that you can’t beat direct human interaction when learning, with all its complexities and misunderstandings.
- School of Cities Director and Department of Geography & Planning Professor Karen Chapple writes in Maclean’s that her research shows transit usage will remain lower and many office towers will stay empty post-pandemic.
- Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies Professor Emerita Mariana Valverde writes in the Toronto Star (paywall) that councillors must reject Ontario’s ‘strong mayor’ law, which will lead to the creation of a CEO mayor.
December 13, 2022
- Department of Physics Associate Professor Robin Marjoribanks talks to the Toronto Star (paywall) and CP24 about how nuclear fusion works, what it means, and what comes next after this major breakthrough.
- Department of Physics Professor Pekka Sinervo discusses on CP24 the groundbreaking advancement in nuclear fusion.
- An Institute of Islamic Studies report on the Canada Revenue Agency’s auditing practices of Muslim charities is highlighted by the Ottawa Citizen (paywall) and The Philanthropist.
- Mandy Pipher, a writing instructor at Innis College writes in the Toronto Star (paywall) about how Bill 124 has affected her.
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Professor Robert Murphy tells the Toronto Star (paywall) that climate change is changing habitats and driving animals to extinction.
December 14, 2022
- Department of History Professor Dimitry Anastakis talks to the Toronto Star (paywall) about the lure of nostalgia.
- Citizen Lab researcher Christopher Parsons tells the National Post (paywall) that the U.S. bill to ban TikTok would have no impact on national security concerns.
- December 15, 2022
- Director of the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society Gillian Hadfield discusses on BNN Bloomberg how the ‘ChatGPT’ program is a game changer for artificial intelligence.
- Department of Computer Science University Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton is highlighted in Forbes (paywall) for establishing Toronto as the most important AI hub in the world outside of Silicon Valley and China.
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology PhD candidate Alejandro Izquierdo López shares with LiveScience his new research that reveals what Tuzoia, a Cambrian arthropod first discovered 100 years ago, actually looked like.
- Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies PhD student Giancarlo Fiorella delivers the Peter Stursberg Foreign Correspondents Lecture on CBC Radio: Ideas.
- The Citizen Lab has alleged Zimbabwe uses phone-snooping software, as reported in The Economist (paywall).
- Political Science University Professor Emeritus Peter Russell comments for the Toronto Star (paywall) on the Ontario government assuming control over the selection of the next chief justice of the Ontario Court of Justice.