A&S scholars sharing their expertise in the media this week

From groundbreaking developments in nanochemistry to the sleep habits of the animal kingdom, 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 11, 2022

• John Peever, professor in the Department of Cell & Systems Biology, shares his research on sleep efficiency – and how sleep is disturbed if we share a bed with a cat or a dog – on CBC’s The Nature of Things: How the Wild Things Sleep.
• Paul Downes, associate professor in the Department of English, writes in the National Observer (paywall) that the pension sector must act swiftly to combat the climate crisis.
• Assistant professor in the Department of Economics Clémentine Van Effenterre tells the Toronto Star (paywall) that the four-day work week has proven to be successful abroad.
• Department of Political Science professor emeritus Nelson Wiseman talks about the Canadian public opinion of daylights savings time with CBC News online.
• Aurel Braun, a professor of international relations and political science at the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (CERES) at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, writes for iPolitics on the nuclear perils of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
• Department of History professor Andres Kasekamp comments on the history of Russia-Ukraine relations for Global News online.

March 12, 2022

• Gustavo Indart, economics professor emeritus, writes in the Toronto Star (paywall) that the main source of today’s inflation appears to be producers’ exploitation of their market power.
• Olga Chyzh, assistant professor of political science, explains the impact of sanctions on Russian oligarchs for The Washington Post (paywall).  
• Citizen Lab senior researcher John Scott-Railton tells CTV News online that when Russian internet users adopt censorship-resistant technology for everyday activities, they make it harder for the government to justify crackdowns on access.

March 14, 2022

• Munk School fellow Mark Kersten discusses the long-term effects of destruction in Ukraine with The Washington Post (paywall).
• For Canadian Business, history professor Dimitry Anastakis and Aurel Braun comment on the unprecedented moves of Canadian companies pulling back business in Russia.

March 15, 2022

• The Toronto Star (paywall) features Department of Chemistry professor Geoffrey Ozin who has received the Killam Prize for his achievements in nanochemistry.
• Paul Cadario, distinguished fellow of the Munk School, discusses the impact of Russian debt payments on the broader financial sector in The New York Times (paywall).
• In The Globe and Mail (paywall), Rafael Gomez, professor and director of the Centre for Industrial Relations & Human Resources, discusses how Canada’s financial system needs to adapt to changes in the labour landscape.
• This Daily Hive round-up for Irish Heritage Month mentions history professor David Wilson’s biography of Thomas D’Arcy McGee, who is known as Canada’s Irish Father of Confederation.

March 16, 2022

• Lynette Ong, associate professor of political science and the Munk School’s Asian Institute, comments in The Globe and Mail (paywall) on how the International Court of Justice ruling against Russia may influence China’s actions.
• Scott Schieman, Department of Sociology professor, talks to Toronto Life about what to expect when Ontario’s “right to disconnect” law takes effect in June.

March 17, 2022

• Mark Kersten of the Munk School writes about the effectiveness of the International Criminal Court investigation in Ukraine for Al Jazeera.
• Jessica Green, associate professor in the Department of Political Science and the School of the Environment, writes in the National Observer (paywall) that the federal government’s proposed carbon capture tax credit is a short-sighted approach to managing the climate crisis.