July 18, 2024 by
A&S News
From global warming to microplastics, 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.
July 11, 2024
- New College community engaged learning coordinator Chris Ramsaroop advocates in CBC News online for better heat protections for agricultural workers.
July 12, 2024
- John Scott-Railton, senior researcher at the Munk School’s Citizen Lab, discusses the AT&T data breach with NBC News online and Bloomberg.
July 14, 2024
- Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies Assistant Professor Patrick Watson talks to the Toronto Star (paywall) about Ontario’s Special Investigation Unit (SIU) changing its naming policy.
July 15, 2024
- Department of Sociology Professor Scott Schieman writes in The Globe and Mail (paywall) about his findings on why octogenarians continue to work.
- Department of Physics Professor W. Richard Peltier shares with The Washington Post (paywall) his research that shows global warming changed the Earth’s rotation.
- Department of Economics Professor Loren Brandt talks to Deutsche Welle online about the Chinese economy.
July 16, 2024
- Department of Geography & Planning Professor and School of Cities Infrastructure Institute Director Matti Siemiatycki shares traffic solutions with CBC News online.
July 17, 2024
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Assistant Professor Chelsea Rochman and Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology alum Madeleine Milne share new research with the Canadian Press, Toronto Star (paywall), Radio-Canada online and blogTO that found microplastics in fish caught along Toronto’s waterfront.
- School of Cities urbanist in residence and Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy senior fellow Kofi Hope and musical artist Shadrach Kabango will teach a Multidisciplinary Urban Graduate Seminar (MUGS) on hip-hop and the city this fall together, as highlighted by CBC News online.