March 1, 2024 by
A&S News
From representation on popular movie and TV series to the 50th anniversary of the Women & Gender Studies Institute, 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 23, 2024
- Department of East Asian Studies Assistant Professor Michelle Cho talks to CBC Arts online and CBC Radio: Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud about Netflix’s adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender and the Toronto spinoff of Law & Order.
- Aurel Braun, affiliated faculty member at the Centre for European, Russian & Eurasian Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, discusses on CBC Radio: Mainstreet Nova Scotia the two-year anniversary of the Russia-Ukraine war.
- The Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy reports on spyware and phishing against Tibetans, as noted by TechCrunch.
February 24, 2024
- Department of Computer Science student Alina Voronina shares with CBC News online her experience leaving Ukraine and continuing her studies in Canada.
- Department of Physics alum CJ Woodford comments for blogTO on the university providing schools with glasses to safely view the April 2024 total solar eclipse.
- Department of Computer Science Associate Professor Gennady Pekhimenko tells CBC News online that he does not expect the interest in Nvidia’s chip-making technology to follow the eventual bust of the cryptocurrency boom.
February 26, 2024
- Randy Boyagoda, a professor in the Department of English and vice-dean, undergraduate at the Faculty of Arts & Science, talks to CBC Radio: The Current about his role as the university’s provostial adviser on civil discourse.
- Along with fellow university administrators, Victoria University President Rhonda McEwen talks to CBC News online about her career and the importance of representation in academia.
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Assistant Professor Chelsea Rochman discusses with CTV News online, CBC News online, CityNews and Newstalk1010 the U of T Trash Team's latest plastic removal efforts in Toronto Harbour.
- Department of Geography & Planning Professor and Infrastructure Institute at the School of Cities Director Matti Siemiatycki comments for The Globe and Mail (paywall) on the promised long-term infrastructure deal in the upcoming 2024 federal budget.
February 27, 2024
- Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies Director and Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures Professor Anna Shternshis and Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and Department of Sociology Professor Ron Levi discuss with Canadian Jewish News the lab they have launched to study global antisemitism.
- Department of Psychology Associate Professor Jed Meltzer shares with the Independent (paywall) and Jerusalem Post that talking speed can be an important indicator of brain health.
- Department of Political Science Professor Emeritus Nelson Wiseman comments for Mental Floss on Canada’s reputation for nice and polite dispositions.
February 28, 2024
- School of Cities Director and Department of Geography & Planning Professor Karen Chapple shares with the Boston Globe (paywall) and Boston Globe (paywall) her research on the pandemic recovery of cities across North America.
- Centre for Industrial Relations & Human Resources Director and Professor Rafael Gomez writes in The Globe and Mail (paywall) about the impact of leap year on employees.
- School of Cities research shows substantial growth in bike sharing in Toronto, as noted by the National Observer.
- The Citizen Lab finds that Canada-based Sandvine deploys its web-monitoring tools to authoritarian regimes, as noted by Wired (paywall).
- The Toronto Star (paywall) highlights the 50th anniversary of the Women & Gender Studies Institute.
February 29, 2024
- Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy Director and Department of Political Science Professor Peter Loewen explains on TVO: The Agenda the meaning and intent of omnibus bills.
- Department of Earth Sciences and School of the Environment Professor Miriam L. Diamond comments for the Toronto Star (paywall) on a study suggesting that drinking boiled tap water could reduce human intake of microplastics.
- Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy fellow Martin Regg Cohn writes in the Toronto Star (paywall) about university tuition fees.