October 15, 2021 by
A&S News
From the need to build more housing in Ontario to keep up with population growth, to the theory of the multiverse, 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.
October 8, 2021
- Bill Marczak, a senior research fellow at the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, comments in ZDNet on the discovery of spyware on mobile phones belonging to Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein, ex-wife of the prime minister of the United Arab Emirates, with whom she is engaged in negotiations around the custody of their children.
October 9, 2021
- Department of Geography & Planning and School of Cities professor Matti Siemiatycki comments in CBC News on the need for governments to build more housing in Ontario to keep up with population growth in the near future.
- Michelle Cho, an assistant professor in the Department of East Asian Studies, comments in Global News on growing worldwide interest in South Korean media and popular culture, due in part to the success of the Netflix show Squid Game.
- On CBC Radio’s Quirks & Quarks, Emily Deibert, a PhD candidate in the David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, describes the extreme conditions — including iron rainfall — discovered on a planet outside our solar system (listen at 19:15).
October 11, 2021
- Bill Marczak speaks in the Globe and Mail about how he uncovered the digital hacking of mobile phones belonging to Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein.
- Department of Earth Sciences professor Miriam Diamond comments in a Weather Network story examining a research study that suggests climate change will lead to an increase in drought, flooding and water scarcity around the world.
October 12, 2021
- Aurel Braun, a professor at the Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at the Munk School and the Department of Political Science, speaks in Global News of concerns around sending foreign aid to Afghanistan while the country is ruled by the Taliban.
October 13, 2021
- Innovation in Real Places: Strategies for Prosperity in an Unforgiving World, the latest book from Dan Breznitz, director of the Innovation Policy Lab at the Munk School and a professor in the Department of Political Science, is noted in the Toronto Star as a finalist for the inaugural Balsillie Prize for Public Policy awarded by the Writers’ Trust of Canada.
- Department of English associate professor Ian Williams is a guest on CBC Radio’s The Current for a discussion about his recent book Disorientation: Being Black in the World, a collection of essays based on his experiences as a Black man moving through the world.
October 14, 2021
- A report released by the Institute of Municipal Finance & Governance at the Munk School examining intergovernmental cooperation around tenant evictions in Toronto is cited in CBC News.
- Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics postdoctoral fellow Almog Yalinewich suggests in Maclean’s that quantum computing may one day prove or disprove the theory of the multiverse, which argues for the existence of parallel universes that allow subatomic particles to exist simultaneously in different locations at the same time.