July 4, 2024 by
A&S News
From job satisfaction to infrastructure issues in Canada, 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.
June 20, 2024
- Aurel Braun, affiliated faculty at the Centre for European & Eurasian Studies (CEES) at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, talks to CTV News online about the main issues of concern at the G7 summit, and to Global News radio about the agreement between Russia and North Korea during Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit (audio: starts 1:30 minute mark).
- Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics Assistant Professor Laurie Rousseau-Nepton tells CBC News online how she brings ancestral knowledge from her community to the study of stars.
- Department of Italian Studies Associate Professor Alberto Zambenedetti discusses Federico Fellini with The Globe and Mail (paywall).
- Department of Geography & Planning Adjunct Professor Joe Berridge co-writes with University Professor Richard Florida an op-ed for The Globe and Mail (paywall) about Professor Florida’s Toronto waterfront report.
- Department of Psychology postdoctoral fellow Bryan Hong discusses with TVO: The Thread the science behind the memory-improving app HippoCamera.
- Dunlap Institute For Astronomy & Astrophysics Associate Professor Renée Hložek discusses with Smithsonian Magazine the use of a new telescope.
June 21, 2024
- Student Daniel Honciuc Menendez of University College is highlighted by CTV News online, blogTO and Daily Hive for being the university’s youngest graduate since at least 1979, with comments from Department of Physics Professor Miriam Diamond.
- Department of Geography & Planning Professor and School of Cities Infrastructure Institute Director Matti Siemiatycki talks to CBC Radio: Frontburner, Global News TV and CBC News online about infrastructure issues in Canadian cities.
- Department of Computer Science University Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton and Assistant Professor Anna Goldenberg discuss with CTV News online and BetaKit the latest AI developments at Toronto’s Collision Conference.
- Dunlap Institute PhD candidate Ayush Pandhi shares with Astronomy his research on non-repeating fast radio bursts.
- Department of Political Science and Munk School Asian Institute Associate Professor Lynette Ong talks to BNN Bloomberg about how mental health issues have exponentially risen during COVID-19 and have worsened due to economic pressures and high youth unemployment.
June 22, 2024
- Department of English Professor and Vice-Dean, Undergraduate at the Faculty of Arts & Science Randy Boyagoda discusses on CBC Radio: The Next Chapter his new book Little Sanctuary.
June 24, 2024
- Department of Sociology Professor Scott Schieman shares with the Toronto Star (paywall) and The Globe and Mail (paywall) his research on job satisfaction in Canada.
- Department of Geography & Planning Professor and School of Cities Infrastructure Institute Director Matti Siemiatycki comments for Global News online on new public infrastructure projects in Ontario.
June 25, 2024
- Department of Political Science Professor Emeritus Nelson Wiseman discusses with the Associated Press, Washington Post (paywall) and Times of India the results of the Toronto-St. Paul byelection.
- Trinity College lecturer Xavier Scott discuses with the National Observer young Canadians and climate activism.
June 28, 2024
- Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy Assistant Professor Maurice Bitran writes in the Toronto Star (paywall) about the closure of the Ontario Science Centre.
June 29, 2024
- Department of Computer Science University Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton receives continued coverage for offering a donation to repair the Ontario Science Centre, as seen in New York Times (paywall), The Globe and Mail (paywall), the Toronto Star (paywall), CTV News online, CBC News online and Radio-Canada online.
- Department of Geography & Planning Professor and School of Cities Infrastructure Institute Director Matti Siemiatycki comments for The Globe and Mail (paywall) on the housing crisis in Canada.
- Department of History Professor Emeritus Robert Bothwell comments for the Canadian Press on the use of angry language in Canadian politics.
June 30, 2024
- Aurel Braun, affiliated faculty at the Centre for European & Eurasian Studies (CEES) at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, comments for CTV News on Canadians urged to leave Lebanon.
- Department of Sociology Professor Scott Schieman and students Jiarui Liang and Alexander Wilson write in the Financial Post (paywall) about their research on how Canadians are feeling amid economic struggles and rising inequality.
July 2, 2024
- Department of Political Science Assistant Professor (teaching stream) Ryan Hurl discusses with the Brandon Gonez Show the U.S. presidential debate.
- Department of Physics Associate Professor Debra Wunch comments for the LA Times (paywall) on a proposed space-based Carbon‑I emission-monitoring system.
July 3, 2024
- Department of Geography & Planning Professor and School of Cities Infrastructure Institute Director Matti Siemiatycki explains to Business Insider (paywall) how construction costs and interest rates impact housing affordability.
- University College postdoctoral fellow Jonathan Bayer talks to the National Post (paywall) about Nova Scotia during the Revolutionary War era.