February 19, 2021 by
A&S News
From words used to talk about craft beer, to a research study that analysed propaganda aimed at Iranians 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.
February 12, 2021
- Department of Linguistics PhD candidate Lex Konnelly comments in the National Post on the words used when talking about craft beer.
- Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies PhD student Erick Laming speaks in APTN News about deaths of people in police custody.
February 13, 2021
- Department of History assistant professor Funké Aladejebi comments in CBC News about a new edition of a book chronicling the histories of Blacks in New Brunswick, to which she contributed a new preface.
- Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies professor Scot Wortley comments in a Radio-Canada story (in French with English translation available) about a report examining anti-Black bias in policing and the criminal justice system in the GTA.
February 14, 2021
- Professor emerita Margaret MacMillan of the Department of History and the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy joins a discussion on ABC Radio’s Rear Vision about diplomacy between the United States and China under the leadership of Richard Nixon and Mao Zedong.
February 15, 2021
- Lynette Ong, an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and the Asian Institute at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, comments on CBC News Network’s Canada Tonight on a research partnership between Canadian universities and technology company Huawai.
February 16, 2021
- Department of Sociology associate professor Jooyoung Lee comments in the Toronto Star on challenges facing efforts to reform police organizations.
February 17, 2021
- John Robinson, a professor at the Munk School and the School of the Environment and U of T’s presidential advisor on the environment, climate change and sustainability, discusses the University’s commitment to sustainability in Corporate Knights.
- Jooyoung Lee speaks on CBC News Network’s Canada Tonight about approaches to reduce gun violence announced by the Canadian government.
- A National Post op-ed discussing Conservative Party of Canada approaches to climate change policy cites research by Department of Political Science and School of the Environment associate professor Jessica Green into the impact of carbon pricing programs on emissions.
February 18, 2021
- Department of Political Science professor Nelson Wiseman comments in the Toronto Star (paywall) on relations between Canada and Iran following the release of a research study that analysed propaganda aimed at Iranians in Canada.
- Early research in artificial intelligence and investigations into how the brain learns by Department of Computer Science University Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton is discussed in Quanta magazine.