February 2, 2024 by
A&S News
From how climate change could affect sports to the Moon’s cultural significance for Indigenous communities, 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.
January 26, 2024
- Department of Psychology Professor Paul Bloom writes in TIME about significant findings in the field of psychology.
- Miglena Todorova, affiliated faculty in the Centre for European, Russian & Eurasian Studies at the, talks to CBC Radio: Ideas about political uprisings and downfalls that profoundly shaped in world in 1989.
- Department of History Associate Professor Luis van Isschot and Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and Department of Political Science Professor Randall Hansen explain on CBC Radio: Ideas the rise of dictators in 1973.
January 27, 2024
- Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies Director and Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures Professor Anna Shternshis explains on CTV News the significance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
- Victoria College Academic Programs Director Ira Wells writes in The Globe and Mail (paywall) about the value of humanities skills in business.
- Department of Economics Professor Emeritus Gustavo Indart writes in the Toronto Star (paywall) about when we may see reduced interest rates.
January 28, 2024
- School of the Environment Director and Department of Computer Science Professor Steve Easterbrook explains to CBC News online how climate change will affect sports.
January 29, 2024
- David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics and Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics Assistant Professor Laurie Rousseau-Nepton talks to Radio-Canada about the Moon’s cultural significance to Indigenous communities.
- Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy distinguished fellow Tony Dean shares insights with CBC Radio: Here and Now on the Service Ontario-Staples pilot project.
- Director of the Institute on Municipal Finance & Governance at the School of Cities Enid Slack discusses on BNN Bloomberg Toronto’s budget deficit and property taxes.
January 30, 2024
- The late Natalie Zemon Davis, Department of History professor emerita, is remembered in TIME as a dynamic teacher and historian.
- Department of Geography & Planning Professor and Infrastructure Institute at the School of Cities Director Matti Siemiatycki writes in the Toronto Star (paywall) about Toronto’s budget challenges.
January 31, 2024
- Ilana MacDonald, acting outreach coordinator of the David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, talks to Global News online about cancelled classes during the upcoming solar eclipse.
- Human Biology Program sessional lecturer Kerry Bowman comments for the National Post (paywall) on MAID and mental illness.
- Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy Master of Public Policy candidate David Jones and Munk School Adjunct Professor Graham Watson write in The Hill Times (paywall) about what Canada can learn from the U.K.’s past.
- Department of Psychology PhD candidate Mateja Perović comments for CNN online about the impact of polycystic ovary syndrome on cognition.
- Department of Geography & Planning Professor and Infrastructure Institute at the School of Cities Director Matti Siemiatycki and Department of Sociology Assistant Professor and School of Cities affiliated faculty Prentiss Dantzler discuss with CTV News online the limitations of Canada’s new foreign student visa cap in mitigating the housing crisis.
February 1, 2024
- Department of Political Science Assistant Professor Matthew J. Walton and Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy Masters student Napas Thein write in The Globe and Mail (paywall) about the need for more support for democracy in Myanmar.
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology postdoctoral fellow Zoie Diana comments for the National Post (paywall) on long-term solutions to plastic pollution.
- The Citizen Lab at the Munk School receives coverage in The Guardian, The Washington Post (paywall), Al Jazeera, Associated Press and BNN Bloomberg online for its spyware discoveries in Jordan.
- Department of Political Science Distinguished Professor Louis Pauly comments for the National Observer on the problems with implementing the so-called “Tobin tax,” a proposed tax on international financial transactions.