September 30, 2022 by
A&S News
From 541-million-year-old algae fossils to the universe’s oldest star clusters, 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 23, 2022
- Acting Director and Professor at the Women & Gender Studies Institute Shahrzad Mojab discusses with CBC News online the outrage and protests following Mahsa Amini’s death in the custody of Iran’s morality police.
September 24, 2022
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology post-doctoral researcher Cédric Aria shares research with Live Science, the Jerusalem Post (paywall), Cosmos Magazine and National Geographic Indonesia (paywall) about a newly discovered fossil algae that suggests plants may have evolved earlier than previously thought.
- Department of Economics professor emeritus Gustavo Indart writes in the Toronto Star (paywall) that low-income individuals will likely benefit the most from the federal government’s inflation relief package.
September 26, 2022
- Peter Loewen, director of the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and Department of Political Science professor, interviewed former prime minister Brian Mulroney for TVO online.
- Ron Deibert, director of the Munk School’s Citizen Lab and Department of Political Science professor, argues on CBC Radio: Ideas that there is hope for the future of democracy.
September 27, 2022
- Olga Chyzh, assistant professor in the Department of Political Science, tells Rolling Stone (paywall) that weaknesses in Russia’s military are now being revealed.
- School of Cities Director and Department of Geography & Planning Professor Karen Chapple comments for the Toronto Star (paywall) on the struggle of mid-level earners finding affordable housing.
September 28, 2022
- Judith Taylor, professor in the Department of Sociology and the Women & Gender Studies Institute, comments for the Toronto Sun on parents asking the Ombudsman to pause the TDSB’s special-interest school rollout.
September 29, 2022
- Lamiya Mowla and Kartheik Iyer, Dunlap Fellows at the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, and Roberto Abraham, professor and chair of the David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, share research with BBC Science, CNN online, The Times (paywall), The Independent (paywall), The Daily Mail, The Jerusalem Post, CBC online, CTV News online, Space, Astronomy Magazine and Inverse about the universe’s oldest globular clusters discovered using the James Webb Space Telescope.
- Citizen Lab senior research fellow Bill Marczak is highlighted in Reuters (paywall) and The Guardian for his work in uncovering the flaws of covert CIA websites.