June 14, 2024 by
A&S News
From the Faculty’s youngest graduate since at least 1979 to the discovery of the smallest known great ape, 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.
June 7, 2024
- Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies Professor Emeritus Anthony Doob shares with CBC online his research on segregation in federally run prisons.
- School of Cities Director and Department of Geography & Planning Professor Karen Chapple comments for the Toronto Star (paywall) on the neighbourhood gentrification in Toronto.
June 8, 2024
- New College Critical Studies in Equity & Solidarity Assistant Professor Chandni Desai
- writes in the Guardian about the destruction of schools in Gaza.
June 9, 2024
- School of Environment Assistant Professor Teresa Kramarz comments for the Canadian Press on the protest against plans to build a graphite mine in the Laurentians.
June 10, 2024
- Student Daniel Honciuc Menendez of University College is profiled by the Toronto Star (paywall) and CBC Radio: Here and Now as the university’s youngest graduate since at least 1979, with comments from Department of Physics Professor Miriam Diamond.
- Department of Anthropology Professor David Begun shares with Newsweek the discovery of fossils of the smallest known great ape.
- Department of Art History postdoctoral fellow Jessica Mace talks to CBC Radio: Here and Now the artwork lost in the St. Anne's Anglican Church fire.
- Department of Art History Associate Professor SeungJung Kim writes in Korea JoongAng Daily about the current U.S. political situation.
- Department of Geography & Planning Professor and School of Cities Infrastructure Institute Director Matti Siemiatycki tells CBC News online that the act of demolition and replacement is still hard on tenants.
June 11, 2024
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Department of Earth Sciences Associate Professor Jean-Bernard Caron studies the unique features of the Pikaia fossil, as covered by The New York Times (paywall).
- Department of Geography & Planning Professor and School of Cities Infrastructure Institute Director Matti Siemiatycki comments for the Montreal Gazette on the potential development of a tramway in Montreal.
- Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy senior fellow Jon Allen writes in The Globe and Mail (paywall) about Benny Gantz’s exit from Israel’s war cabinet.
- School of Cities Director and Department of Geography & Planning Professor Karen Chapple talks to NPR about the downtown recovery rates of major North American cities.
June 12, 2024
- Student Daniel Honciuc Menendez of University College receives continued coverage from Global News as the university’s youngest graduate since at least 1979, with comments from Department of Physics Assistant Professor (teaching stream) Ania Harlick.
- Department of Political Science Professor and Trinity College fellow John Kirton, director of the G7 Research Group at U of T, comments for The Globe and Mail (paywall), the Canadian Press, CP24 online and CBC News online on the annual G7 leaders’ summit in Italy.
- Department of Political Science PhD candidate Riley Yesno explores Indigenous futurism on CBC Radio: Ideas.
- Dunlap Institute PhD candidate Ayush Pandhi shares with Inverse, Science Alert and Ars Technica his research on non-repeating fast radio bursts.
- Department of Economics Associate Professor Joseph Steinberg discusses with CTV News the capital gains tax and government revenue.
June 13, 2024
- Department of Political Science Professor and Trinity College fellow John Kirton, director of the G7 Research Group at U of T, comments in an Associated Press story on the address by Pope Francis to world leaders at the G7 summit in Italy.
- Department of Computer Science Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton argues in The Globe and Mail (paywall) that AI machines are closer to humans than we think.