October 4, 2024 by
A&S News
From the role of Indigenous youth in reconciliation to the escalating crisis in the Middle East, 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.
September 27, 2024
- Centre for Industrial Relations & Human Resources professor and director Rafael Gomez comments for CBC News online and CBC Radio: London Morning on replacement workers at Western University.
- Department of English professor Ian Williams talks to CBC Radio: Information Morning about the art of conversation in an increasingly polarized world.
- Department of English professor and vice-dean, undergraduate at the Faculty of Arts & Science Randy Boyagoda discusses with CBC News online how universities can foster constructive dialogue.
September 28, 2024
- Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and Department of Political Science university professor Dan Breznitz writes in The Globe and Mail (paywall) about Canada's productivity crisis.
- The U of T Trash Team, led by Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology professor Chelsea Rochman, shares with CBC online the impact of microplastics in Ontario rivers.
September 29, 2024
- Centre for Indigenous Studies assistant professor Verne Ross talks to Bell Media Radio about his social work and educational journey, and working with two-spirit youth.
- Cinema Studies Institute and Department of History professor and Innis College principal Charlie Keil talks to Global Radio about the significance of Batman receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
- Jonathan Hamilton-Diabo, special advisor to the president of Victoria University’s Indigenous Initiatives, talks to CityNews about the importance of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
September 30, 2024
- Department of Political Science PhD candidate Riley Yesno discusses on CTV: The Good Stuff her research on the role of Indigenous youth in the reconciliation movement.
October 1, 2024
- Department of Earth Sciences and School of the Environment professor Miriam L. Diamond talks to CBC News online about the health effects of long-term benzene exposure.
- Department of History professor emeritus Robert Bothwell comments for CTV News online on vitriolic language in Canadian politics.
- Department of Physics professor Aephraim Steinberg and PhD graduate Josiah Sinclair share with the Independent UK their quantum discovery of negative time.
October 2, 2024
- Aurel Braun, affiliated faculty at the Centre for European & Eurasian Studies (CEES) at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, discusses on Global News the escalating crisis in the Middle East.
- Department of Geography & Planning professor and School of Cities Infrastructure Institute director Matti Siemiatycki talks to CBC Radio: Ontario Today about the province’s proposed solutions for traffic congestion.
- Citizen Lab fellow Lex Gill discusses on CBC Radio: Ideas how social and cultural movements influence the evolution of law.
- Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy senior fellow Jon Allen writes in The Globe and Mail (paywall) about the potential for peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
- Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy professor Drew Fagan talks to TVO: The Agenda about Ontario’s infrastructure problem.
October 3, 2024
- Department of Linguistics professor and chair Sali Tagliamonte shares on CBC Radio: Ontario Today her work with the Oxford English Dictionary to preserve Ontario dialects.
- Department of Sociology professor Scott Schieman and student Daniel Hill write in The Globe and Mail (paywall) about what most Americans perceive as “fun” at the workplace.
- Department of Sociology associate professor Prentiss Dantzler discusses on CityNews the perception that new Canadians are to blame for the housing crisis.