December 2, 2022 by
A&S News
From the changing workplace amid the pandemic to lockdown protests in China, 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.
November 25, 2022
- Asaf Gilboa, Department of Psychology associate professor, shares with Inc. that having more years of education, more areas of interest, and more hobbies can help improve memory into old age.
November 26, 2022
- Department of Sociology Professor Scott Schieman writes in the Toronto Star (paywall) that Canadians are increasingly finding they have more freedom at work since the pandemic began, and for Quartz that in contrast to the quiet-quitting trend, most people actually like their bosses.
November 27, 2022
- Department of History Professor Emeritus Margaret MacMillan is highlighted in CBC News online for her appointment to the Order of Merit.
- Daniel Konikoff, PhD candidate at the Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies and a graduate fellow at the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, shares with The Globe & Mail (paywall) documents that reveal risks to the RCMP’s new privacy-protecting unit.
- Victoria College Academic Programs Director Ira Wells writes in the Toronto Star (paywall) about literary censorship and his experience as part of an elementary school book audit.
November 28, 2022
- Ron Deibert, director of the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and professor in the Department of Political Science, and Citizen Lab senior research fellow Bill Marczak explain to The Guardian their research about Pegasus spyware and disinformation campaigns.
- Department of Political Science and Asian Institute associate professor Lynette Ong comments for Foreign Policy (paywall), The New York Times (paywall), The Economist (paywall) and CBC News online on China’s massive protests.
November 29, 2022
- Reuters, the Associated Press and Washington Post (paywall) highlight the Citizen Lab’s work in revealing spyware on the phones of journalists, opposition politicians and activists.
- Department of Psychology Associate Professor Oshin Vartanian co-authored a paper on neuroarchitecture, as highlighted in Architectural Digest.
November 30, 2022
- Department of Political Science an Associate Professor Diana Fu, also director of the East Asia Seminar Series at the Munk School’s Asian Institute, shares insights with NBC News online and CBC News online on the protests in China.
- Department of Political Science Professor Emeritus Nelson Wiseman tells Cottage Life he believes it is unlikely the Ontario government’s Bill 23 will be reigned in.
December 1, 2022
- Department of Economics Professor Michael Smart is mentioned in the Financial Post (paywall) for giving testimony at the Rogers-Shaw merger hearing.