October 20, 2023 by
A&S News
From U.S. President Joe Biden’s visit to Israel to research on ancient seeds found at the mouth of the Don River, 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.
October 13, 2023
- Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society faculty affiliate Wendy Wong writes in The Globe and Mail (paywall) about data ownership in the age of AI.
- Victoria College Professor on Public Policy and Society Sunil Johal discusses in the Toronto Star (paywall) Toronto’s rideshare scene.
- Vice-President, International Joseph Wong of the Department of Political Science and the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy explains to the Toronto Star (paywall) the university’s approach to AI and how he uses ChatGPT in class.
October 14, 2023
- Department of Economics Professor Emeritus Gustavo Indart writes in the Toronto Star (paywall) about how government policies can solve Canada’s inflation issues.
October 15, 2023
- Department of Chemistry Assistant Professor Helen Tran discusses in Chemical and Engineering News the challenges of degradable organic semiconductors.
- Munk School fellow Mark Kersten analyzes the complexity of determining war crimes for Deutsche Welle.
- Department of History Professor Andres Kasekamp comments for CBC News online on the war between Russia and Ukraine.
- Department for the Study of Religion Associate Professor Arti Dhand talks to BBC Radio: Opening Lines about the Sanskrit epic, the Mahābhārata.
October 16, 2023
- The Munk School’s Citizen Lab finds that people linked to the Catalan separatist movement were targets of Pegasus spyware, as reported by Reuters (paywall) and El Mundo.
- Department of Psychology Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream Taryn Grieder explains in the Canadian Press newly released guidelines to help detect alcohol addiction.
- Department of Anthropology PhD candidate Walter Callaghan explains in CTV News online how social media coverage of wars causes anxiety.
- Anthropology Professor Emeritus Marcel Danesi comments for Salon on Donald Trump’s hyperbolic and threatening language.
- Political Science Professor Clifford Orwin talks to CBC Radio: Ideas about the ancient Greek historian Herodotus.
- History Professor Dimitry Anastakis talks to 560 CFOS (Owen Sound) about the big picture in making the transition to electric vehicles.
October 17, 2023
- Political Science PhD candidate William O’Connell argues in The Globe and Mail against Quebec’s out-of-province tuition hike.
- Citizen Lab senior researcher John Scott-Railton talks to the Washington Post (paywall) about the potential dangers of spreading false cybersecurity warnings.
- Munk School senior fellow Jon Allen says to CBC News online that a humanitarian corridor is necessary in the Gaza-Israel war.
- Aurel Braun, affiliated faculty at the Centre for European, Russian & Eurasian Studies at the Munk School, discusses on CGTN America China’s third Belt and Road summit.
- Centre For Criminology & Sociolegal Studies Assistant Professor Patrick Watson shares research insights with the Toronto Star (paywall) about race disparity in Special Investigations Unit probes.
October 18, 2023
- Department of Computer Science University Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton shares with JoongAng his insights on the promise and risks of advanced AI in an interview and at a recent event co-hosted by the University.
- Department of English Professor and Vice-dean, Undergraduate of the Faculty of Arts & Science Randy Boyagoda reviews a book by Jesmyn Ward for the Financial Times (paywall).
- Aurel Braun discusses on CP24 U.S. President Joe Biden’s visit to Israel.
- Department of English Professor George Elliott Clarke weighs in on the significance of appointing a Black Speaker in the House of Commons, for CBC News online.
- Arne Kislenko, Adjunct Professor in the International Relations program at Trinity College, explains to Global News online the Israel-Hezbollah conflict.
October 19, 2023
- English Assistant Professor Deirdre Baker recommends in the Toronto Star (paywall) eight books that will inspire and entertain children.
- Political Science Professor Emeritus Nelson Wiseman talks to the Associated Press and Chiang Rai Times about the expulsion of Canadian diplomats from India.
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Assistant Professor Shelby Riskin discusses on CBC Radio: Metro Morning and CBC News online her research on ancient seeds found at the Don River.
- Political Science and Munk School University Professor Janice Stein discusses with CBC News online and CBC News online Joe Biden’s address following his Israel visit.
- Centre for Indigenous Studies and Computer Science student Tristen White shares the impact of the University’s Indigenous tuition initiative with CBC News online and Global News online.
- Anthropology Professor Edward Banning talks to LiveScience, Business Insider and Times of India about the Karahan Tepe sculptures and what they could represent.
- Department of Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations Professor Emeritus Ronald Leprohon talks to LiveScience and the Daily Mail about Egypt’s forgotten female ‘king,’ Meret-Neith.
- Department of Sociology Professor Robert Brym, who is also affiliated faculty at the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies, comments for the Toronto Star (paywall) on Canadian Jews attending a pro-Israel rally in Toronto.
- Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics fellow Ziggy Pleunis talks to Popular Science about the valuable role of fast radio bursts in studying the intergalactic medium.
- John Scott-Railton of Citizen Lab talks to NPR about fake social media information surrounding the hospital bombing in Gaza.