June 10, 2022 by
A&S News
From the scientific significance of a new record-breaking image of the universe to philosophical insights on what love feels like, 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.
June 3, 2022
- Department of Political Science professor emeritus Peter H. Russell writes in The Globe & Mail (paywall) that monarchies are a big benefit for parliamentary democracies.
- Political Science professor emeritus Nelson Wiseman comments on low voter turnout and Progressive Conservative party seats for the Toronto Star (paywall).
- Mel Cappe, Distinguished Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, tells the Toronto Star (paywall) that support for electoral reform depends on a party’s results, rather than democratic principle.
June 4, 2022
- Munk School distinguished fellow Peter Mansbridge writes in The Globe & Mail (paywall) about how development plans threaten to shutter the Juno Beach Centre, a museum honouring the lives of Canadians who lost their lives on D-Day and the Battle of Normandy.
- Chris Ramsaroop, sessional instructor in the Caribbean Studies program at New College, writes in the Jamaica Gleaner that elections should offer public scrutiny over a government’s record.
- On CBC Radio: Tapestry, David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics assistant professor Hilding Neilson says that prioritizing Indigenous rights and methodologies is important for inclusive, welcoming science.
- Robert Austin, a professor in the Department of History and the Munk School’s Centre for European, Russian & Eurasian Studies (CERES), and Seva Gunitsky, associate professor of political science and CERES, comment in the National Post (paywall) about the Russian citizenry’s accountability for the Ukraine war.
June 5, 2022
- Department of Philosophy PhD candidate Alexandra Gustafson shares her insights on the phenomenology of love, or what love feels like, with ABC Radio Australia: The Philosopher’s Zone podcast.
June 6, 2022
- Lamiya Mowla, Dunlap Fellow at the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, shares a new Hubble Space Telescope image with CTV News online, Space.com, CNET, Inverse.com, Universe Today and CBC Radio that will help astronomers learn about the earliest, most distant galaxies.
- Department of English professor Ian Lancashire uses AI to study vocabulary in Agatha Christie novels, as highlighted in the Times of India.
June 7, 2022
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology assistant professor Chelsea Rochman explains to BBC online how to reduce microplastics in oceans.
- Rinaldo Walcott, professor at the Women & Gender Studies Institute, is recognized for his book On Property in a CBC online round-up of Canadian books to read during Pride Month.
June 8, 2022
- Matti Siemiatycki, professor in the Department of Geography & Planning and director of the School of Cities Infrastructure Institute, talks to CP24 about walkable downtown Toronto spaces.
- In the Calgary Sun, Department of Economics professor emeritus Morley Gunderson finds current policies create financial disincentives for older Canadians who wish to continue working.
- For the Hill Times (paywall), Economics PhD candidate Hugo Cordeau proposes redirecting Tax-Free Savings Accounts to fight climate change.
June 9, 2022
- Political Science and Munk School University Professor Janice Stein will chair a committee of experts to help build a federal Indo-Pacific strategy, as reported in the National Post (paywall) and Hindustan Times.