May 28, 2021 by
A&S News
From the need to invest in public transit in Canada, to virus transmission from farmed to wild salmon, 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 21, 2021
- Matti Siemiatycki, a professor in the Department of Geography & Planning and interim director of the School of Cities, co-authors an op-ed in the Toronto Star with Shoshanna Saxe of the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering on why the time for investment in public transit is now.
May 22, 2021
- Department of Economics professor Michael Smart comments in CTV News on a proposal to clawback payments under the Canadian Emergency Wage Subsidy program to prosperous Canadian businesses.
- Department of Political Science and Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy professor Peter Loewen comments in a National Post (paywall) story about vaccine hesitancy and thresholds for returning to pre-pandemic lifestyles across Canada.
May 23, 2021
- Department of Linguistics professor and chair Sali Tagliamonte explores the origins of terms such as camp, cabin and cottage when describing Canadian summertime escapes on CBC Radio’s The Sunday Magazine.
May 24, 2021
- University Professor Barbara Sherwood Lollar in the Department of Earth Sciences recounts in Quanta magazine the evolution of understanding around the processes that sustain microbial life below Earth’s surface.
May 25, 2021
- Department of Sociology associate professor Jooyoung Lee speaks on CP24 on the first anniversary of the death of George Floyd.
- Jon Lindsay, an assistant professor at the Munk School and the Department of Political Science, comments in a France 24 news story on the development of cyberwar strategy.
- A research project based in the lab of Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology assistant professor Chelsea Rochman that uses GPS technology to track plastic pollution as it floats around Lake Ontario is highlighted in a Weather Network news story.
- Srilata Raman, an associate professor in the Department for the Study of Religion, comments in the Toronto Star on Hindu and Sikh death rituals, following the creation of a designated site in Mississauga for dispersal of ashes after cremation.
- Research from the lab of Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology assistant professor Luke Mahler, that showed anole lizards are able to remain underwater for up to 18 minutes thanks to an ability to rebreathe oxygen as scuba divers do, is featured in the BBC’s Science Focus, the Daily Mail, and CTV News (watch at 35:56).
- Department of Political Science professor Ronald Deibert, director of the Citizen Lab at the Munk School, tells TVO about the ongoing history of efforts to track the spread of digital human-rights abuses around the world.
May 26, 2021
- Matti Siemiatycki comments in the National Post on suburban condominium communities that resemble downtown urban neighbourhoods.
- Peter Loewen, University Professor Janice Stein of the Department of Political Science and the Munk School, and Vivek Goel of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health write a Globe and Mail op-ed examining the role of political leaders during the COVID-19 pandemic.
May 27, 2021
- An op-ed co-authored by Department of Geography & Planning professor Katharine Rankin first published in The Conversation and reprinted in the National Post (paywall), examines Nepal’s COVID-19 crisis and the country’s call for assistance with vaccines.
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology professor Martin Krkosek speaks in The Scientist about virus transmission from farmed Atlantic salmon to wild Pacific salmon, as suggested by a new research study.