March 5, 2021 by
A&S News
From the impact of microplastics on our health to the need for Canada to explore a bolder innovation policy, 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 1, 2021
- Department for the Study of Religion assistant professor, teaching stream Erin Vearncombe participated on CBC Radio’s Tapestry to discuss how her course goes ‘behind the scenes’ at museums to consider our ‘human interactions with things’.
March 2, 2021
- Department of Classics assistant professor Sarah Murray was on the BBC’s The Conversation discussing whether our modern-day gender biases influence the way we look at women’s lives in ancient societies.
March 3, 2021
- Department of English professor George Elliott Clarke participated on CBC Radio’s Ideas to talk about what inspires him to write as a Black Canadian writer.
- An op-ed by Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology assistant professor Chelsea Rochman featured in the Toronto Star examines the impact of microplastics on human health.
March 4, 2021
- An op-ed written by Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology PhD candidate Xia Zhu first published in the Conversation and reprinted in the National Post discusses how plastic is part of the climate cycle and should be included in climate calculations.
March 5, 2021
- Professor Dan Breznitz, senior fellow Dan Munro and assistant professor Darius Ornston of the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy wrote in the Financial Post about Canada’s innovation challenges and the need for bolder innovation policy.