January 26, 2024 by
A&S News
From the role gender plays in dementia to this year’s Oscar nominations, 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 19, 2024
- A School of Cities study highlighted by The Globe and Mail (paywall) shows that there are approximately 6,800 illegal turns and thru movements at intersections per day on the King Street Transit Priority Corridor, but less than 0.3 per cent are being ticketed by Toronto Police, on average.
- Department of English Professor and Vice-dean, Undergraduate of the Faculty of Arts & Science Randy Boyagoda talks to CBC Radio: Here and Now about his new appointment as Provostial Adviser on Civil Discourse.
- Department of Psychology Professor Gillian Einstein explains on CBC Radio: Metro Morning the role gender plays in developing dementia.
- Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics Assistant Professor Maya Fishbach comments for Inverse on the discovery of a new object in the Milky Way.
- Department of Political Science Professor Emeritus Nelson Wiseman comments for The Globe and Mail (paywall) on Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s political career.
January 22, 2024
- Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy senior fellow Robert Asselin writes in La Presse (paywall) about the economic model of public subsidies.
- Director of the Institute on Municipal Finance & Governance at the School of Cities Enid Slack comments for CBC News online on the Windsor City Council’s budget deliberation.
- Department of Art History Associate Professor SeungJung Kim writes in JoongAng about changing Western perceptions of Korea.
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology postdoctoral fellow Zoie Diana comments for Slate on a study that found a quarter million invisible nanoplastic particles in a litre of bottled water.
- Department of Political Science Professor Emeritus Nelson Wiseman comments for the Associated Press on Canada’s two-year cap on international student visas.
January 23, 2024
- David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics postdoctoral fellow Ananthan Karunakaran comments for Scientific American (paywall) on the newfound giant galaxy Nube.
- Innis College Principal and Cinema Studies Institute and Department of History Professor Charlie Keil comments for CP24 on this year's Oscar nominations.
- Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy senior fellow Jon Allen shares insights with The Walrus (paywall) into Israel’s military operations.
- Vice-President International Joseph Wong of the Department of Political Science and the Munk School discusses on CBC Radio: Ideas events leading up to the Second World War.
- Department of Political Science Professor Emeritus Nelson Wiseman comments for the Associated Press on the possibility of Donald Trump being re-elected as U.S. President.
- Department of Geography & Planning and School of the Environment Professor Emeritus Ian Burton underlines in the National Observer how difficult it is to stop climate change immediately.
January 24, 2024
- The late Department of Political Science University Professor Emeritus Peter Russell is remembered in The Globe and Mail (paywall) for his contributions to the fields of politics and law.
- Department of Geography & Planning Professor and Infrastructure Institute at the School of Cities Director Matti Siemiatycki comments for CBC News online on rising infrastructure maintenance costs in Toronto.
- Randall Hansen, director of the Centre for European, Russian & Eurasian Studies (CERES) at the Munk and Department of Political Science professor, shares insights with CBC Radio: Ideas on the global events that shaped the year 1973.
- Chris Ramsaroop, sessional instructor in the Caribbean Studies program at New College, comments for ByBlacks on the flaws of Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program.
- John Scott-Railton, senior researcher at the Munk School’s Citizen Lab, comments for Wired (paywall) on NSO Group’s spyware products.
January 25, 2024
- Victoria College Academic Programs Director Ira Wells shares insights with The Atlantic (paywall) from his book about the legacy of the late Victoria College alumnus and film director Norman Jewison.
- Department of Geography & Planning Professor and Infrastructure Institute at the School of Cities Director Matti Siemiatycki comments for CityNews online on the delay of the Scarborough replacement busway.
- Department of Political Science Professor Emeritus Nelson Wiseman talks to Global News online about how the U.S. presidential election could impact Canadian politics.