April 4, 2025 by
A&S News
From the U.S. tariff war to Great Lakes microplastics, 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.
March 28, 2025
- Department of Political Science PhD candidate Etienne Cardin-Trudeau writes in Le Devoir about left-wing movements around the globe.
- Department of Economics and Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy associate professor Peter Morrow talks to Financial Post magazine about the trade war between Canada and the U.S.
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology graduate student Thomas Dudgeon shares with WIRED how his 3D model of a Corythosaurus skull helps us understand what dinosaurs sounded like.
March 29, 2025
- Department of Political Science assistant professor Eric Merkley comments for CBC News online on the similarities between Conservative party leader Pierre Poilievre and MAGA politics.
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology professor Chelsea Rochman and student Eden Hataley share with Yahoo! News their research in systematic monitoring of microplastics in the Great Lakes.
- Department of History professor Dimitry Anastakis comments for USA Today on how Donald Trump’s 25 per cent tariffs impact the automotive industry.
March 30, 2025
- Department of Philosophy professor Mark Kingwell offers advice in the Toronto Star (paywall) about purchasing Canadian-made products.
- Centre for Industrial Relations & Human Resources and Centre for Diaspora & Transnational Studies associate professor Padraic X. Scanlan’s new book Rot is about the Irish famine, as highlighted in the Financial Times (paywall).
- Department of Anthropology and African Studies Centre assistant professor Nisrin Elamin discusses on NPR the significance of Sudan’s army recapturing its capital.
March 31, 2025
- The Department of Computer Science is featured in Maclean’s for offering standout programs in Canada.
- Department of Political Science PhD candidate Valerie Kindarji shares insights with the Montreal Gazette on disinformation in the Baltic states and Scandinavia.
- Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy senior fellow Graeme Moffat comments for BetaKit on the Conservative Party’s capital gains tax proposal.
- Department of Art History associate professor SeungJung Kim writes in Korea JoongAng Daily about the ancient Zhangzhung culture.
- Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy professor Timothy Snyder talks to The Guardian about Elon Musk, Donald Trump and J.D. Vance damaging U.S. alliances.
April 1, 2025
- Incoming professor Jason Stanley and professors Marci Shore and Timothy Snyder receive continued coverage for joining the university, with comments from University Professor Janice Stein, as seen in the Financial Times (paywall), The Globe and Mail (paywall), Global online, CBC News online, CBC Radio: The Current, NPR, PBS, The Hill, CTV News, CBC: Front Burner, CBC Radio: Metro Morning, MSNBC, Vanity Fair, Forbes and The New York Times (paywall).
- Department of Geography & Planning professor and School of Cities director Karen Chapple discusses with BNN Bloomberg the Liberal Party’s housing plan.
- School of Cities adjunct professor Carolyn Whitzman discusses with CBC online the Liberal Party’s housing plan.
April 2, 2025
- Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy senior fellow Martin Regg Cohn shares with the Toronto Star (paywall) takeaways from a panel he moderated on U.S.-Canada environmental collaboration.
- University Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton of the Department of Computer Science discusses on TVO: The Agenda his Nobel achievement and the future of AI.
- Department of Psychology professor Geoff MacDonald discusses on TVO: The Thread the complexities of modern dating.
- Department of History professor Dimitry Anastakis argues in The Globe and Mail (paywall) that Donald Trump’s tariff war is a war on America’s future.
April 3, 2025
- School of Cities adjunct professor Carolyn Whitzman comments for CBC News online on a national housing strategy.