May 17, 2024 by
A&S News
From pivotal moments in automotive history to groundbreaking developments in lasers, experts 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 10, 2024
- Department of Economics PhD candidate Taryn Eames talks to The Globe and Mail (paywall) about her research examining how non-binary gender pronouns on job applications may be perceived.
- Department of Sociology Professor Monica Boyd comments for The Globe and Mail (paywall) on immigration patterns in Canada.
May 11, 2024
- Department of Computer Science Associate Professor Gennady Pekhimenko is noted in The Globe and Mail (paywall) for leading a company that optimizes how AI applications run.
- Department of Earth Sciences and School of the Environment Professor Miriam L. Diamond comments for CTV News online on forever chemicals in food packaging, cosmetics and other household objects.
May 12, 2024
- In an interview in India, Vice-President International and Department of Political Science and Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy Professor Joseph Wong shares with Free Press Journal how the university supports international students.
- Department of Geography & Planning Professor and School of Cities Infrastructure Institute Director Matti Siemiatycki comments for CBC News online on the housing crisis in Canada.
May 13, 2024
- Department of Geography & Planning alumna Bita Gharadaghi writes in the Toronto Star (paywall) about her research on transit-oriented communities.
- Department of History Professor Dimitry Anastakis discusses with the Financial Post (paywall) insights from his new book Dream Car: Malcolm Bricklin’s Fantastic Safety Vehicle-1, and the End of Industrial Modernity about the automotive dealer Malcolm Bricklin.
May 14, 2024
- School of Cities Director and Department of Geography & Planning Professor Karen Chapple shares with the Washington Post (paywall), CBS and CBS her research on downtown post-pandemic recovery.
- Department of Geography & Planning Professor and School of Cities Infrastructure Institute Director Matti Siemiatycki comments for CityNews on resources needed to improve Toronto's transit system.
- Department of Mathematics Professor Vitali Kapovitch explains in Quanta the difficulty of proving Milnor’s conjecture.
May 15, 2024
- Department of Art History Associate Professor Kim Seung Jung writes in Korea JoongAng Daily about the influence of AI in the classroom.
May 16, 2024
- Department of Chemistry Professor and Acceleration Consortium Director Alán Aspuru-Guzik shares in Science (paywall) the significance of the Acceleration Consortium’s latest laser discoveries.