November 25, 2022 by
A&S News
From the harms and anxieties that come with living in the digital age to the discovery of hydrogen energy sources around the world, 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.
November 19, 2022
- Department of Physics Assistant Professor Matthew Russo is featured on Global News: The New Reality for using sound to model structures of the universe captured by the James Webb Space Telescope.
- Department of Psychology Associate Professor Romin Tafarodi discusses with the Financial Post (paywall) people beginning to favour analogue over digital devices as a response to fears and anxieties about technology.
November 20, 2022
- Department of Political Science and the School of the Environment Associate Professor Jessica Green talks to CNN about the limitations of the loss and damage fund that came out of the COP27 climate conference.
November 21, 2022
- Citizen Lab Director and Department of Political Science Professor Ron Deibert and Citizen Lab Senior Researcher John Scott-Railton discuss their research with Wired (paywall) in connection with revelations about a copyright lawsuit between a cybersecurity startup and Apple.
- Department of Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations Professor Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi discusses on CTV Your Morning the ongoing protests in Iran (appears at 2:10).
November 22, 2022
- Department of Psychology PhD graduate Ravin Alaei and Professors Geoff MacDonald and Nicholas Rule’s research finds that the words to our most-loved songs reveal our attachment style, as highlighted in the Guardian, the Toronto Star (paywall), Newstalk Breakfast (Ireland), The Week (UK), Ludwig van, and Dazed.
- Citizen Lab researchers Christopher Parsons and Amanda Cutinha discuss with The Globe and Mail (paywall) and the Financial Post (paywall) their paper detailing the flaws of Canada’s new data privacy bill.
- The Boston Globe (paywall) highlights Department of Economics PhD candidate Elaine Guo’s research on the harms of social media and rise of severe mental health issues among youth.
November 23, 2022
- Department of Geography & Planning and School of Cities Professor Matti Siemiatycki comments for CBC News online on the Ontario provincial government’s new housing report.
- Department of Earth Sciences Assistant Professor Dan Gregory talks to Newsweek (paywall) about his new research on an ancient ocean discovery that could hold the secret of hydrogen storage.
- On CBC: The National, Ron Deibert examines an activist’s cell phone for spyware and surveillance threats amid the civil unrest in Iran (appears around 28:00).
- Political Science Assistant Professor Eric Merkley discusses on CBC Radio: All in a Day (Ottawa) the causes and consequences of increasing polarization in Canada.
- Department of Statistical Sciences Professor Jeffrey Rosenthal comments in Canada Today that the odds of Canada scoring its first World Cup goal are high.
- School of Cities Director and Geography & Planning Professor Karen Chapple tells the Toronto Star (paywall) and Newstalk 1010: Moore in the Morning that even though downtown Toronto foot traffic is 46 per cent lower than before the pandemic, the city will recover.
November 24, 2022
- Earth Sciences University Professor Barbara Sherwood Lollar is highlighted in Wired (paywall) for mapping the locations of potential hydrogen sources around the world.