September 10, 2021 by
A&S News
From the superhero blockbuster movie Shang-Chi to a newly discovered 500-million-year-old fossil, 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 3, 2021
- In Education News Canada, Department of Psychology associate professor Dirk Bernhardt-Walther explains the recent discovery by U of T scientists about the role of the prefrontal cortex in sensory perception.
- In CBC News, Cinema Studies Institute PhD student Miriam Siegel points out the obstacles the film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is being forced to overcome to become Marvel’s pandemic cinematic saviour.
September 4, 2021
- On CBC Radio’s Quirks & Quarks, David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics PhD student Emily Deibert explains why planets like those in our solar system revolve in the same direction.
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology PhD student Jade Simon, a scientist with a disability, speaks in the Toronto Sun about her aspiration to advocate for others.
September 7, 2021
- In the Globe and Mail, Scott Davies, a professor in the Department of Sociology, comments on the lack of clarity regarding learning disruptions on students during the pandemic.
- In the Washington Post, Department of Economics assistant professor Michael Stepner talks about people losing their unemployment benefits.
September 8, 2021
- On CNN, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology PhD student Joe Moysiuk describes the newly discovered fossil of a creature from 500 million years ago that is described as a “swimming head.”
- On CBC Radio’s As It Happens, recent U of T graduate and Indigenous rights advocate Riley Yesno talks about Indigenous people’s issues and the place they occupy in politics.
- In the National Post, Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies professor Scot Wortley comments on the RCMP decision against apologizing to the Black community for excessive Halifax street-checks, stating that the RCMP has a strong reputation for not issuing apologies.
- In the Toronto Star, Department of Geography & Planning professor Matti Siemiatycki talks about how the lack of a vaccination mandate for TTC employees could affect whether people feel it is safe to once again use public transit.
September 9, 2021
- In the National Post, Joseph Heath, a professor in the Department of Philosophy, comments on Canada’s sovereignty after 9/11 and how our country dealt with the events.