July 15, 2022 by
A&S News
From half-a-billion-year-old fossils that shed new light on evolution on Earth to new James Webb Space Telescope images that shed new light on galaxy evolution, 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.
July 8, 2022
- PhD candidate Joe Moysiuk and professor Jean-Bernard Caron of the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (EEB) share new research about ancient Burgess Shale fossils with CTV online, ABC: Australia and the Jerusalem Post. They are studying the brains and nervous systems of 500-million-year-old predators, shedding light on evolution.
- Phillip Lipscy, associate professor in the Department of Political Science, as well as chair in Japanese Politics and Global Affairs and the director of the Centre for the Study of Global Japan at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, writes in The Globe and Mail (paywall) and The Washington Post (paywall) that the former prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, was a strong defender of the country on the world stage.
July 9, 2022
- Matti Siemiatycki, professor in the Department of Geography & Planning and director of the Infrastructure Institute at the School of Cities, talks to The New York Times (paywall) about the complicated nature of public-private partnerships in Canada’s transit sector.
- Department of Sociology associate professor Jooyoung Lee, who is also a faculty member of the Centre for the Study of the United States at the Munk School, talks to NPR about crime prevention and gun control efforts in Canada.
- Sali Tagliamonte, professor and chair of the Department of Linguistics, discusses with CBC News online the Ontario Dialect Project and the speaking patterns of northern Ontarians.
July 11, 2022
- EEB assistant professor Chelsea Rochman talks to CBC Radio: Here & Now about the U of T Trash Team’s new campaign aimed at curbing the prevalence of cigarette butts in the environment.
July 12, 2022
- Sarah Finkelstein, associate professor and chair of the Department of Earth Sciences, and Shelby Riskin, assistant professor in EEB, tell CityNews that they are studying the soil removed from a Toronto Port Lands excavation site for a better understanding of a long-lost natural habitat.
- Lamiya Mowla, Dunlap Fellow at the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, discusses with Forbes (paywall), Al Jazeera: The Stream, CBC Radio: Metro Morning and CBC Science what scientists hope the James Webb Space Telescope will reveal about the universe and how it is different from the Hubble Space Telescope.
- Ted Mackereth, Banting-Dunlap-CITA post-doctoral fellow, is featured on Bloomberg: Quicktake (appearing at 14:10) to discuss how the James Webb Space Telescope will be used to understand the mysteries of the Andromeda Galaxy.
- Department of East Asian Studies assistant professor Michelle Cho comments for France24 about K-pop leveraging global performers and the enduring impact of the viral song “Gangnam Style.”
July 13, 2022
- Lynette Ong, associate professor in the Department of Political Science and the Asian Institute at the Munk School, is cited in Bloomberg (paywall) for her book Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in Contemporary China.
- The Hill Times (paywall) highlights veteran political journalist Paul Wells, the inaugural journalist fellow-in-residence at the Munk School.
July 14, 2022
- Roberto Abraham, chair and professor in the David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, talks to CBC Radio: The Current about the James Webb telescope’s early success and his role as Canada’s representative on the advisory committee.
- Citizen Lab senior researcher Christopher Parsons shares insights with the National Post (paywall) about the Russian cyber threat to Canada.