February 9, 2024 by
A&S News
From Canada’s new hub for AI and innovation to experiences with dementia, 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 2, 2024
- Data Sciences Institute postdoctoral fellow Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher shares with IFL Science her calculations to determine the size of a table needed for a jigsaw puzzle.
- Department of Psychology Professor Nicholas Rule, who is also Vice-Principal, Academic and Dean at the University of Toronto Mississauga, studies the psychology of faces and shares with Upworthy that teeth play a big role in how we perceive others.
- Adam Vaughan, a Canadian Urban Leader at the School of Cities, writes in the Toronto Star (paywall) about refugee settlement in Canada.
- Department of Anthropology Professor Emeritus Marcel Danesi comments for the Atlantic (paywall) on the symbolism of the “+” sign.
- Department of Anthropology Professor Janelle Taylor describes on NPR: This American Life her experience with her mother’s condition and reads her 2008 essay “On Recognition, Caring, and Dementia".
February 4, 2024
- Department of Psychologyv research fellow Mark Miller discusses with El Pais (paywall) his research on why humans are attracted to horror movies.
February 5, 2024
- Department of English Professor George Elliott Clarke shares with CBC Books and CBC News online his experience editing Howard McCurdy’s autobiography.
- Dan Breznitz, University Professor in the Department of Political Science and co-director of the Munk School’s Innovation Policy Lab, comments for The Hill Times (paywall) on Canada's innovation ecosystem, alongside Leah Cowen, vice-president, research & innovation, & strategic initiatives.
- Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies Professor Emerita Mariana Valverde writes in the Toronto Star (paywall) about the financial challenges of municipalities and universities.
- Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy’s Citizen Lab and Department of Political Science Professor Ron Deibert and Citizen Lab senior researcher John Scott-Railton discuss with the Associated Press new U.S. visa restrictions for those misusing spyware.
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Associate Professor Mark Engstrom comments for LiveScience on a new genome recently discovered in blue whales.
February 6, 2024
- For CBC Radio: Ideas, Department of History University Professor Emerita Lynne Viola and George Elliott Clarke weigh in on the meaning of reasonableness.
February 7, 2024
- Citizen Lab senior researcher Alberto Fittarelli shares with Reuters the discovery of various websites disguised as news outlets that are linked to a pro-Beijing campaign.
- Department of Anthropology Associate Professor Bence Viola discusses with El Pais (paywall) his work excavating Neanderthal remains in Siberia.
- Centre for Industrial Relations & Human Resources Director and Professor Rafael Gomez comments for CTV News on compulsory vaccinations for immigrants.
February 8, 2024
- The Schwartz Reisman Innovation Campus is featured in The Globe and Mail (paywall) as a new home for AI discovery in Toronto, with comment from Scott Mabury, vice-president, operations & real estate partnerships and vice-provost, academic operations. Department of Computer Science University Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton is mentioned.
- Department of Earth Sciences postdoctoral fellow Erkan Gün and Professor Russell Pysklywec share with IFL Science their research that found the Pacific Ocean tectonic plate is scored by colossal faults.
- Human Biology Program sessional lecturer Kerry Bowman comments for CBC News online on the delayed expansion of MAID for mental illness.