January 27, 2023 by
A&S News
From rediscovered songs that trace the steps of Jewish refugees escaping the Holocaust to a smartphone app that improves memory, 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.
January 20, 2023
- Alán Aspuru-Guzik, Department of Chemistry professor and director of the Acceleration Consortium, explains to Psychology Today, CityNews podcast: The Big Story and iHeartRadio his new study that shows the revolutionary potential of AI in medical research.
January 21, 2023
- Anna Shternshis, director of the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies and Al and Malka Green professor of Yiddish and Diaspora Studies in the Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures, has her work retracing the journeys of Jewish refugees in Central Asia featured in a BBC Radio documentary. It aired on BBC World, World Service and Radio 3, along with a written story.
- Department of Economics Professor Emeritus Gustavo Indart writes in the Toronto Star (paywall) how the Bank of Canada can avoid increasing interest rates.
January 22, 2023
- Department of Political Science Assistant Professor Olga Chyzh writes in The Guardian about Putin’s unrelenting pursuit of Ukraine.
January 23, 2023
- Department of Psychology professor Morgan Barense and postdoctoral researcher Bryan Hong explain on CBC Metro Morning, CityNews and Inc. the neuroscience-informed HippoCamera app they’ve developed to improve memory recall.
- Department of Computer Science University Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton and Department of Computer Science Professor Raquel Urtasun are cited in The Globe and Mail (paywall) as two of Canada’s leading AI experts.
- CBC online notes an analysis published by the Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies publication Criminological Highlights in October, which concluded that putting people behind bars has little impact on whether they will re-offend.
January 24, 2023
- Department of English Professor Ian Williams is highlighted in CBC online and Insauga for chairing the 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize jury.
- Centre for Industrial Relations & Human Resources Director and Professor Rafael Gomez comments for CTV National News on the health worker vaccination policy.
January 25, 2023
- John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, discusses with TIME (paywall) the efforts to smuggle Starlink internet into Iran. Later in the week, he talks to the Wall Street Journal (paywall) about the Lab’s work with the cyber-intelligence firm NSO Group.
- Psychology professor Morgan Barense and Donna Rose Addis share insights with The Walrus on how the pandemic has affected memory.
- Department of History Professor Emeritus Robert Bothwell talks to The New York Times (paywall) about the Diefenbunker, the four-storey underground bunker built in Ottawa between 1959 and 1961.
January 26, 2023
- Citizen Lab researcher Jeffrey Knockel comments for The Intercept on Apple bringing mainland Chinese web censorship to Hong Kong.