June 24, 2022 by
A&S News
From the science behind getting stuck in a rut to a new course on the popular TV show Squid Game, 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 17, 2022
- In The Globe & Mail (paywall), Innis College principal and professor at the Cinema Studies Institute and Department of History Charlie Keil discusses the April film screening that raised $30,000 for the college’s Ukrainian Community Scholars at Risk Award for Faculty of Arts & Science students.
June 18, 2022
- Department of English professor and vice-dean, undergraduate of the Faculty of Arts & Science Randy Boyagoda writes in The Globe & Mail (paywall) about keeping multiple international crises top-of-mind, in particular the economic and political turmoil in Sri Lanka.
- Department of Philosophy professor Mark Kingwell writes in The Globe & Mail (paywall) about Russia’s threat of nuclear war.
- In The Globe & Mail (paywall), Department of Chemistry University Professor Emeritus John Polanyi discusses the prohibition of nuclear weapons.
- CBC Radio: The House highlights research from the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy which found anti-Conservative misinformation was spreading on China-based social media.
June 20, 2022
- Rafael Gomez, professor and director of the Centre for Industrial Relations & Human Resources, talks to The Walrus about the blurring of the boundary between our personal and professional identities.
- Paolo Granata, Book and Media Studies associate professor and program coordinator at St. Michael’s College, talks to Breakfast Television and blogTO about his new course “Squid Game and the media”.
- PhD candidate at the David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics Margaret Ikape talks to CBC Science about her experiences as a Black astronomer.
June 21, 2022
- Departments of Psychology and Cell & Systems Biology assistant professor Laura Corbit explains to Best Health why habits are resistant to change, and how to get out of a COVID rut.
- The Citizen Lab at the Munk School shares insights with CTV News online on Chinese media control.
- The Toronto Star (paywall) highlights research on police violence by Scot Wortley, professor at the Centre of Criminology & Sociolegal Studies, in the context of the Toronto police’s apology for the recent race-based statistics report.
June 22, 2022
- Deirdre Baker, an assistant professor in the Department of English, writes in the Toronto Star (paywall) about her top book recommendations for kids this summer.
- Munk School fellow Mark Kersten writes in The Globe & Mail (paywall) about the Cullen Commission’s report on money laundering in British Columbia.
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology assistant professor Chelsea Rochman has received new federal and provincial funding for her microplastics research, as noted in the Manitoulin Expositor.
- School of Cities director and Department of Geography & Planning professor Karen Chapple discusses with The Globe & Mail (paywall) the future of office buildings in the wake of COVID-19 and the work-from-home approach.
- Vicki Zhang, professor in the Department of Statistical Sciences, tells The Globe & Mail (paywall) that Canada urgently needs a public discussion and policy-level response to serve the transgender population.
June 23, 2022
- Chelsea Rochman in CTV News describes efforts to track and reduce plastic pollution in Lake Ontario.