July 25, 2024 by
A&S News
From new insights into dark matter and supermassive black holes to the impact of Toronto floods on the city’s wildlife, 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 18, 2024
- Innis College Urban Studies Program Director and Associate Professor, Teaching Stream David Roberts comments for NOW Toronto on a New York City-inspired subway map created for Toronto by a resident.
July 20, 2024
- School of Cities Director and Department of Geography & Planning Professor Karen Chapple discusses with CP24 housing affordability in Toronto.
- Department of Anthropology Professor David Begun talks to IFL Science about his research suggesting early hominines evolved in Europe before spreading to Africa.
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Professor Donald Jackson and postdoctoral fellow Tiziana Gelmi Candusso discuss with the Toronto Star (paywall) how Toronto’s flood has impacted Don Valley wildlife.
- Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies Professor Emeritus Anthony Doob and PhD candidate Tyler King talk to the Toronto Star (paywall) about how tougher bail laws could increase crime.
July 23, 2024
- Department of Political Science Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream Ryan Hurl comments for Global News on U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision to drop out of the presidential race.
- Department of Economics Assistant Professor Eva Vivalt shares with CBS News and Gizmodo a study on the impact of cash transfers on employment in Texas and Illinois.
July 24, 2024
- Alejandro Izquierdo-López talks to The New York Times, CBC Science Discover Magazine and Newsweek about research he undertook while a PhD student in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, about the discovery of a marine creature that lived roughly 505 million years ago.
- Department of East Asian Studies Assistant Professor Michelle Cho discusses on CBC Radio: The Current the use of AI in K-pop music.
- Department of Physics postdoctoral fellow Gonzalo Alonso-Álvarez comments for ScienceAlert, IFL Science, Cosmos and Earth on his research exploring the connection between supermassive black holes and dark matter.