July 16, 2021 by
A&S News
From lessons to be learned from ancient water discovered in northern Ontario to the history of racism in animated Hollywood films, 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 9, 2021
- University Professor Barbara Sherwood Lollar in the Department of Earth Sciences comments in the Hindustan Times on what lessons might be learned from the 1.6 billion-year-old water she discovered in northern Ontario.
July 11, 2021
- Department of History and Caribbean Studies program associate professor Melanie Newton speaks on CBC Television’s The National about the debate over renaming Dundas Street in Toronto.
July 12, 2021
- Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies PhD student Erick Laming comments in the Toronto Star on the mandate of Newfoundland and Labrador’s police oversight agency to investigate allegations of domestic violence committed by police officers.
- Department of Geography & Planning and School of Cities professor Matti Siemiatycki comments in a Toronto Star story examining the impact of a proposed rail transit route on Toronto’s Liberty Village neighborhood.
- Joseph Desloges, a professor in the Department of Geography & Planning and the Department of Earth Sciences, comments in The Narwhal on fluctuating water levels in Lake Ontario due to climate change.
July 13, 2021
- Research led by Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology assistant professor Chelsea Rochman is cited in a Los Angeles Times op-ed exploring the prevalence of microplastics found in food.
July 14, 2021
- Department of Physics professor Aephraim Steinberg comments in Live Science on artificial intelligence-designed quantum physics experiments that go beyond what any human has conceived, based on work done by Department of Computer Science postdoctoral fellow Mario Krenn.
- Christopher Parsons, a senior research associate with the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy writes a Globe and Mail op-ed examining the potential impact of mandatory national security risk assessments on academic research imposed by the Canadian government.
July 15, 2021
- Citizen Lab senior researcher John Scott-Railton and senior research fellow Bill Marczak comment in the Washington Post, Al Jazeera and The Guardian on the targeting of at least 100 activists, journalists and government dissidents across 10 countries with digital spyware produced by an Israeli company.
- Research by Nicholas Sammond, a professor at the Cinema Studies Institute at Innis College and director of the Centre for the Study of the United States and the American Studies program at the Munk School, is cited in a BBC Culture story examining the history of racism in animated Hollywood films.