June 17, 2022 by
A&S News
From using AI to find hidden evidence of early humans using fire almost a million years ago to connecting academics with city leaders for climate-change solutions, 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 10, 2022
- Mark Kersten, fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, writes in Al Jazeera that prosecuting its own alleged crimes can help Ukraine undercut Russia’s propaganda war.
- Lamiya Mowla, Dunlap Fellow at the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, shares a new Hubble Space Telescope image with CBC Radio: Quirks & Quarks and CityNews that will help astronomers learn about the earliest, most distant galaxies.
- Rafael Gomez, professor and director of the Centre for Industrial Relations & Human Resources, tells Global News that an increase in service-sector job opportunities is key to bringing more women back into the workforce.
June 11, 2022
- Department of Economics professor emeritus Gustavo Indart writes in the Toronto Star (paywall) about the Bank of Canada’s approach to inflation and interest rates.
- Heather Dorries, assistant professor in the Department of Geography & Planning, talks to The Globe & Mail (paywall) about her research on how urban planning affects Indigenous peoples and communities.
June 13, 2022
- Department of Anthropology professor Michael Chazan describes applying artificial intelligence to archaeology to find evidence of early humans using fire nearly a million years ago, as reported by The Globe & Mail (paywall), The Jerusalem Post, Haaretz, The Times of Israel and CBC Radio: As It Happens.
- For Corporate Knights, School of Cities director and Geography & Planning professor Karen Chapple discusses the role academic institutes play in creating climate-change solutions for sustainable cities.
- Department of Sociology associate professor Jooyoung Lee, who is also a faculty member of the Centre for the Study of the United States at the Munk School, talks to NPR about gun violence in racially marginalized and underserved communities.
June 14, 2022
- Citizen Lab senior researcher Christopher Parsons tells the National Post (paywall) that the federal government’s Huawei and ZTE ban may impact small companies such as Indigenous-run internet service providers.
- Citizen Lab senior researcher John Scott-Railton talks to The Washington Post (paywall) and The Financial Times (paywall) about counterintelligence concerns posed by a potential deal between a major American defense firm and the spyware company NSO Group.
June 15, 2022
- Department of Philosophy professor Mark Kingwell explains to France 24 the issues with assigning consciousness, in response to claims that Google’s LaMDA AI system is sentient.
- The Toronto Sun highlights Scot Wortley, professor at the Centre of Criminology & Sociolegal Studies, for his research on race-based Toronto policing data.
June 16, 2022
- Christopher Parsons comments in Global News on new federal legislation from the Canadian government regarding private-sector cybersecurity.
- Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences and School of the Environment Miriam Diamond shares new research with Environmental Health News that found most countries are not on track to remove the toxic pollutants known as PCBs from the environment by the 2028 Stockholm Convention goal.