November 10, 2023 by
A&S News
From toxic chemicals in makeup to microplastics in the environment, 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.
November 3, 2023
- Department of Geography & Planning Professor and Infrastructure Institute at the School of Cities Director Matti Siemiatycki talks to CBC Radio about the pros and cons of using public-private partnerships with schools.
- Department of Earth Sciences and School of the Environment Professor Miriam L. Diamond shares her research on CBC: Marketplace on how some makeup products contain potentially toxic chemicals.
November 4, 2023
- Department of Political Science and Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy University Professor Janice Stein and Aurel Braun, affiliated faculty at the Centre for European, Russian & Eurasian Studies at the Munk School, discuss with CBC News online refugee camps being targeted in the Gaza-Israel war.
November 5, 2023
- Department of Sociology Professor Scott Schieman writes in the Toronto Star (paywall) about why most Canadians think people hate their jobs.
- Jack Cunningham, program director of the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History and fellow at Trinity College, discusses on CTV News Channel the ongoing negotiations to get Canadians out of Gaza.
November 6, 2023
- Munk School senior fellow Brian Lewis talks to CBC News online about infrastructure project challenges in Ontario, and to Radio-Canada about the Ontario Infrastructure Bank.
- The University is featured as a key driver of AI innovation in Joong Ang, with insight from Department of Computer Science PhD candidate Patricia Thaine, and mentions of University Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton, Assistant Professor Jimmy Ba and Professor Raquel Urtasun of Computer Science.
- Department of Chemistry University Professor Emeritus John Polanyi writes in The Globe and Mail (paywall) about the possibility of nuclear disarmament.
- Marva Wisdom, senior fellow at the Munk School, is appointed to the Order of Ontario, as reported by Global News online.
- School of Cities Director and Department of Geography & Planning Professor Karen Chapple shares her downtown recovery research with FOX online, CBS online, CBC Radio: Let’s Go (Montreal) and New York Post.
November 7, 2023
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Assistant Professor Chelsea Rochman shares her research on microplastics and the environment with CTV The Social and FOX online.
November 9, 2023
- Munk School senior fellow Jon Allen discusses with CBC Radio: Ontario Today the latest developments in the Gaza-Israel war.
- Centre for Industrial Relations & Human Resources Director and Professor Rafael Gomez comments for BNN Bloomberg on pay transparency laws in Canada.