October 2, 2020 by
A&S News
From an examination of climate activism among members of Generation Z to the impact of the 2020 United States presidential election on Canada and the rest of 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.
September 25, 2020
- Jessica Green, an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and the School of the Environment, comments on climate activism led by members of Generation Z in Refinery 29.
- Professor Drew Fagan at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy co-authors an op-ed in the Globe and Mail explaining how the risk taken by Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau in proroguing Parliament this past summer worked in the government’s favour.
- Mark Kingwell, a professor in the Department of Philosophy, writes about the renewed interest in Albert Camus’s 1947 novel The Plague and its relevance to the COVID-19 pandemic in a Globe and Mail op-ed.
September 27, 2020
- Robert Bothwell, a professor emeritus in the Department of History and the International Relations program at Trinity College, and political science and Munk School professor Peter Loewen speak about the possible prospects for Canada’s place in the world after next month’s election in the U.S. in the Toronto Star (paywall).
- Department of Sociology professor and chair Scott Schieman writes an op-ed in the Toronto Star (paywall) examining how working from home during the pandemic has had an impact on work-life balance, and how the effect has been felt differently by people with and without children.
September 28, 2020
- Political science professor Clifford Orwin pens an op-ed in the Globe and Mail to argue why it is acceptable for U.S. president Donald Trump to attempt to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court.
- Munk School assistant professor Sean Speer speaks about an equitable post-pandemic recovery for all residents of Ontario in the Toronto Star (paywall).
September 29, 2020
- Cynthia Khoo and Kate Robertson, research fellows in the Munk School’s Citizen Lab, discuss the advantages and disadvantages of algorithmic policing involving the use of digital surveillance technology by Canadian police forces on TVO’s The Agenda.
September 30, 2020
- Frank Rudzicz, an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science, comments on the prospect of using artificial intelligence to diagnose a COVID-19 infection via someone’s voice in a Nature news feature.
October 1, 2020
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology assistant professor Chelsea Rochman explains how trash-trapping technology is helping extract plastic pollution from the Great Lakes in CBC News.