September 3, 2021 by
A&S News
From a research project using GPS technology to track pollution floating around Lake Ontario to China’s efforts to remove what it calls “unhealthy content” from magazines, films and television, 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.
August 27, 2021
- A research project based in the lab of Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology assistant professor Chelsea Rochman that uses GPS technology to track plastic pollution as it floats around Lake Ontario is highlighted in the Financial Post.
August 29, 2021
- Department of Economics assistant professor Michael Stepner comments in CNN on the impact of early withdrawal from federal unemployment support programs across the United States on job growth and consumer spending.
- Department of Philosophy professor emeritus Ronald de Sousa comments in the Toronto Star on the passing of fellow professor, psychologist and women’s advocate Paula Caplan, an early contributor to the design of U of T’s women and gender studies program.
August 30, 2021
- Robert Bothwell, a professor emeritus in the Department of History and the International Relations program at Trinity College, comments in a Toronto Sun story examining the cancellation of public events during Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s election campaign.
August 31, 2021
- Department of Sociology associate professor Jooyoung Lee comments in the Toronto Star on a shooting at Toronto’s Yorkdale shopping mall.
- Department of Political Science professor emeritus Nelson Wiseman speaks in CBC News about profane and hate-based protests directed at candidates during the Canadian federal election.
- Department of Sociology professor and chair Scott Schieman co-authors a Toronto Star op-ed with PhD candidate Phil Badawy on being visible in the workplace and the potential of not being seen enough when working from home.
- Irene Poetranto, a senior researcher at the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, discusses in a Reuters story the censoring of LGBTQ2S+ websites by numerous countries around the world.
- Department of Economics professor Michael Smart comments in the Toronto Star on the Conservative Party of Canada’s election campaign pledge to balance the country’s budget without cutting spending.
- Louis Pauly, a professor in the Department of Political Science and the Munk School, comments in a Financial Post story looking back on former United States president Richard Nixon’s move to detach the U.S. dollar from the value of gold in 1971.
- Spike Lee, an associate professor in the Department of Psychology and the Rotman School of Management, co-authors an op-ed first published in The Conversation and reprinted in the National Post arguing that smartphones and other digital technologies are not reducing people’s cognitive abilities as has been suggested.
September 1, 2021
- Professor Dan Breznitz of the Innovation Policy Lab at the Munk School and the Department of Political Science, comments in CBC News on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on supply chains that sustain the operation of Canadian tech companies.
September 2, 2021
- Lynette Ong, an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and the Asian Institute at the Munk School, comments in a BBC News story examining China’s efforts to remove what it calls “unhealthy content” from magazines, films, television programs among other media.