March 12, 2021 by
A&S News
From the use of COVID-19 vaccines as tools of global diplomacy and supremacy, to the digitization of fossils and other archaeological specimens for online education, 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.
March 5, 2021
- Kanta Murali, an associate professor in the Department of Political Science, comments in a National Post story about the use of COVID-19 vaccines for global supremacy by various countries around the world.
- Department of Political Science and School of the Environment associate professor Jessica Green speaks in Vox about worldwide efforts to put a price on carbon emissions in order to mitigate climate change.
- Bill Robinson, a research fellow with the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, comments in CBC News on the responsibility of Canada’s Communications Security Establishment to protect the privacy of Canadian citizens from digital breaches.
- Lynette Ong, an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and the Asian Institute at the Munk School, discusses China and politics around the pandemic on CBC Radio’s The Current (listen at 29:47).
March 6, 2021
- Department of History assistant professor Funké Aladejebi discusses the history of the first female Black teachers in Ontario on CBC Radio’s In Town and Out.
March 8, 2021
- Sylvia Bashevkin, a professor in the Department of Political Science, writes an op-ed for International Women’s Day in Rabble examining the differences in roles between women and men in managing the COVID-19 pandemic.
March 9, 2021
- Research by Centre for Industrial Relations & Human Resources and Department of Economics professor emeritus Morley Gunderson is cited in a Globe and Mail op-ed discussing paid sick days for workers in Canada.
- Following the cancellation of the television series Kim’s Convenience, Department of Sociology associate professor Jooyoung Lee speaks on CBC Radio’s Here and Now about the show’s impact on the Korean community.
- Department of Sociology professor and chair Scott Schieman reflects on the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in Miami, Florida’s 7 News.
March 10, 2021
- A report on vaccine hesitancy co-authored by Department of Political Science and Munk School professor Peter Loewen is cited in a Globe and Mail op-ed.
- Michelle Cho, an assistant professor in the Department of East Asian Studies, comments in a CBC Music story examining connections between Black culture and K-pop.
March 11, 2021
- Research led by Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology professor Don Jackson and PhD candidate Lauren Lawson on the year-round contamination of Toronto’s rivers and creeks from road salt is featured in the Toronto Star.
- Department of Anthropology assistant professor Bence Viola comments in University Affairs on the digitization of fossils and other specimens for use in online learning.