May 13, 2022 by
A&S News
From using astronomy to tell stories about humanity’s relationship to the universe to revealing the first image of the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy, 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.
May 6, 2022
- Ron Deibert, director of the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy as well as Department of Political Science professor, and John Scott-Railton, Citizen Lab senior researcher, discuss their team’s research on the NSO group with The Economist (paywall), The Guardian and The Globe and Mail (paywall).
- Diana Cucuz, sessional lecturer in the Department of History, writes in the Toronto Star (paywall) about how the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade could trickle north to Canada.
- In Canadian Architect, Matti Siemiatycki, professor in the Department of Geography & Planning and director of the School of Cities Infrastructure Institute, discusses creative affordable housing solutions as part of the school’s new mixed-use development plan.
May 7, 2022
- Citizen Lab fellow Lokman Tsui comments for Al Jazeera on Hong Kong’s chief executive Carrie Lam’s legacy.
- Department of Computer Science professor Raquel Urtasun shares developments at her AI self-driving company Waabi with Forbes (paywall).
May 8, 2022
- On CBC Radio Tapestry, David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics postdoctoral researcher Leo Alcorn describes the parallels between astronomy and horror writing, and assistant professor Hilding Neilson discusses the relationship between humans and the universe.
May 9, 2022
- Assistant professor in the Department of Economics Clémentine Van Effenterre tells The Globe and Mail (paywall) that productivity is not likely to decline with a four-day work week.
- Rafael Gomez, professor and director of the Centre for Industrial Relations & Human Resources, explains the impact of the carpenters strike in Ontario to CBC News online and Global News online.
May 10, 2022
- For Zoomer online, professor Gillian Einstein of the Department of Psychology discusses the use of a plant-based hormone replacement that may reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease after menopause.
- In the Financial Post (paywall), Economics professor emeritus Morley Gunderson writes about how employers can benefit from older workers.
May 11, 2022
- Departments of Earth Sciences and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology professor Jean-Bernard Caron and PhD candidate Joe Moysiuk share their research with CBC News online, about the 450-million-year-old fossil found in Ontario.
May 12, 2022
- Ue-Li Pen, professor at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics and associate faculty member at the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, talks to CBC News online about the first image of the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy, as part of the international team behind the discovery.
- Kim Strong, chair and professor in the Department of Physics, talks to CNBC online about the possibility of a helium-filled balloon taking passengers part of the way to space.