February 16, 2024 by
A&S News
From the relationship between work and self-understanding to efforts towards fostering civil discourse at U of T, 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.
February 9, 2024
- Aurel Braun, affiliated faculty at the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, writes in The Globe and Mail (paywall) about propaganda techniques used in Vladimir Putin’s recent interview with Tucker Carlson.
- Department of Sociology Professor Scott Schieman writes in The Globe and Mail (paywall) about the relationship between work and self-understanding.
- Human Biology Program sessional lecturer Kerry Bowman comments for the Globe and Mail (paywall) on opioids data.
- The Citizen Lab of the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy receives continued coverage in Newsweek for a report on pro-Beijing disinformation.
- Department of Earth Sciences Professor Russell Pysklywec shares with ScienceAlert his research that found the Pacific Ocean plate is plagued by colossal faults.
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Professor Emeritus Daniel Brooks comments for Mother Jones on the need for more comprehensive assessments of how climate change impacts health.
February 10, 2024
- Department of Economics PhD candidate Taryn Eames shares with the Toronto Star (paywall) her new research on discrimination against job applicants who disclose gender pronouns on resumés.
- Department of Economics Professor Emeritus Morley Gunderson argues in The Globe and Mail (paywall) for more investment in Canada’s small and medium-sized enterprises.
February 11, 2024
- David Wolfe, co-director of the Innovation Policy Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy writes in The Globe and Mail (paywall) about the future of technology startups in Canada.
- Department of Political Science and Asian Institute at the Munk School Associate Professor Lynette Ong comments for BBC News online on Chinese President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption crackdown cuts.
February 12, 2024
- Department of Computer Science University Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton, Schwartz Reisman Chair in Technology and Society Gillian Hadfield and Department of Chemistry Professor and Acceleration Consortium Director Alán Aspuru-Guzik discuss in BetaKit AI safety and regulation.
- Ilana MacDonald, acting outreach coordinator of the David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, explains in Global News online the upcoming total solar eclipse.
February 13, 2024
- Department of Geography & Planning Professor and Infrastructure Institute at the School of Cities Director Matti Siemiatycki discusses in the Toronto Star (paywall) the Gardiner Expressway’s aging infrastructure.
- Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy fellow Martin Regg Cohn writes in the Toronto Star (paywall) about Ontario's post-secondary education sector under Ontario premier Doug Ford.
- John Scott-Railton, senior researcher at the Munk School’s Citizen Lab, discusses in the Associated Press and Le Monde (paywall) newly discovered Pegasus spyware use in Poland.
- Centre for Industrial Relations & Human Resources Director and Professor Rafael Gomez comments for the National Post (paywall) on how many attributes at work tend to skew more positive for salaried workers versus hourly employees.
- Jack Cunningham, program director of the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History and fellow at Trinity College, discusses on CTV News Canadians who are trapped in Gaza. He also discusses on CHML radio Donald Trump’s latest comments about NATO.
- Aurel Braun, affiliated faculty at the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, talks to La Presse (paywall) about Donald Trump’s latest comments about NATO.
February 14, 2024
- Department of Political Science Professor Emeritus Nelson Wiseman comments for The Guardian on the proposed transgender youth policies of Alberta premier Danielle Smith.
- Department of Computer Science Assistant Professor Rahul Krishnan comments for The Hill Times (paywall) on the Canadian health-care system’s challenges.
- Department of Geography & Planning Professor and Infrastructure Institute at the School of Cities Director Matti Siemiatycki comments for Global News online on the measures to reduce current congestion levels of Toronto’s traffic.
February 15, 2024
- Randy Boyagoda, a professor in the Department of English and vice-dean, undergraduate at the Faculty of Arts and Science, discusses in the Toronto Star (paywall) his new role as U of T’s first adviser on civil discourse.