VIEW to the U: An eye on UTM academic community

On this episode of VIEW to the U podcast, we continue this season of “Adventures in Research” with Professor Josh Milstein from the Department of Chemical & Physical Sciences at UofT Mississauga and in the Department of Physics at UofT St. George. Josh has a couple of stories to tell about his time in academia, and we also talk about podcasts he’s listening to, books he’s reading, and how the The...

A familiar voice to the podcast because Professor Alex Gillespie was featured on our very first season almost five years ago now, but this time around she’s in an entirely new seat – physically, virtually, spiritedly – and literally all of the above – at the helm as Vice-President UofT and UTM’s newly appointed Principal. The new season of VIEW to the U is “Adventures in research,” with a focus on...

On this episode of VIEW to the U, Historical Studies prof Elspeth Brown, who joined the faculty at UofT Mississauga in 2000, talks about her archival work preserving the stories of people from the LGBTQ community. We also talk about the history of Pride celebrations, timed with Global Pride that is taking place on June 27, how the origin of Pride has parallels with the current racial upheavals hap...

Métis matters in research and in Canada On this edition of VIEW to the U podcast, Professor Jennifer Adese, an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at UofT Mississauga, discusses her Indigenous research. Her research focuses on Indigenous political and cultural representation across several sites. While her earlier work focused on confronting misrepresentations of Indigenous people,...

Considering everyday air contaminants in extraordinary times: On this episode air-pollution scientist Assistant Professor Matthew Adams, who has been on faculty in UTM’s Department of Geography since 2017, talks about his research, which focuses on our exposure to air contaminants in urban environments. He talks about some of the impacts reduced traffic in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and Ontari...

Global connectivity in a crisis On this episode of VIEW to the U we hear from Professor Edward Schatz in U of T Mississauga’s Department of Political Science about his research that spans several areas including identity politics, social transformations, and anti-Americanism. He also talks about the ways in which the current pandemic has illuminated some of the issues, like the flaws in our global...

The value of Art and times of social upheaval In this episode Professor John Paul Ricco from UofT Mississauga’s Department of Visual Studies talks about his art and art history research, and also about how past health crises have shaped art movements. We also talk about some of the ways in which this current pandemic may influence artists now and in creations to come, and what kinds of things John...

In this episode we hear from Professor Beth Coleman, an Associate Professor in UTM’s Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology and in UofT’s Faculty of Information Studies (FIS) about her research in aspects of human narrative and digital data in the engagement of global cities, including aspects of locative media/mobile media and smart cities. We also talk about weeding thro...

In this first sequestered episode, Psychology Professor Samuel Ronfard talks about his research and also about how to best chat with young kids about things like germs, global pandemics, and physical distancing. We also talk about some of the things he’s doing during this time of self-isolation, and how he’s balancing work at home while also having a toddler toddling about. Samuel Ronfard is an As...

Technological tools for education & connection For this particular episode we focus on: “Why and how are mobile phones and social networks enabling education as it relates to refugees? How is this working in some remote places around the world?” We turn to Professor Negin Dahya from UTM’s Institute of Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology and UofT's Faculty of Information Studies for...

Immigrant wellbeing and Global Health For this particular episode we focus on: “Although low- and middle-income countries like Ghana, Kenya and Malawi are urbanizing at a rapid pace, why is the spread of non-communicable and infectious diseases still so prevalent?” For this we turn to Professor Vincent Kuuire from UTM’s Department of Geography, along with some other insights related to his researc...

In this episode, Season 4, Episode 1, we are turning to Professor Norman Farb from U of T Mississauga’s Department of Psychology for an answer to the question, “Why is meditation and mindfulness so important for us, and why is it on so many people’s radar these days? For this particular episode, because it is January, and people may have started off with some intentions for the new year ahead, whi...

Plugged into robotics research Jessica Burgner-Kahrs is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Mathematical and Computational Sciences at U of T Mississauga and in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at UofT, and the Director of the Continuum Robotics Laboratory at UTM, a newly established lab. Over the course of this interview Jessica talks about being at the forefront of continuum roboti...

Reimagining Research & Roots Maria Hupfield is an Assistant Professor cross appointed in the Departments of Visual Studies and English & Drama at UTM. She is UTM’s first Canada Research Chair in Transdisciplinary Indigenous Arts, she is a globally renowned Indigenous performance artist, coming to UTM hot off the heels of nearly a decade based in Brooklyn, New York, making her mark in art circles t...

Dialectical Discourses June 27 is Canadian Multiculturalism Day, so in the spirit of the day, today’s episode of the VIEW to the U podcast features Professor Arsalan Kahnemuyipour to learn more about the linguistics research he undertakes in U of T Mississauga’s Department of Language Studies. With this new, third season of VIEW to the U highlighting UTM’s Global Perspectives, Arsalan outlines som...

Roots to Reconciliation On today’s episode of the VIEW to the U podcast, which has come out in honour of the month of June where we celebrate National Indigenous History Month, with National Indigenous Peoples Day falling on June 21st, 2019. We will learn more about the work of Professor Tracey Galloway from U of T Mississauga’s Department of Anthropology, and the health-focused research she does...

Arctic Anecdotes On this episode of the VIEW to the U podcast, which has come out in honour of Earth Day, April 22, 2019, we will learn more about climate change and its effects on aquatic ecosystems and Indigenous populations with Professor Igor Lehnherr. Igor Lehnherr is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at U of T Mississauga, where he has been on faculty since 2014. Prior to...

Mothers and migration On this edition of the VIEW to the U podcast we are hearing from Professor Neda Maghbouleh, who may sound a bit familiar because she was featured last year on the podcast during our Women in Academia season. And, in the spirit of International Women’s Day, which falls on March 8, the interview with Neda is reposted because some of her research has focused on a project that sp...

Destination: Africa On today’s episode of the VIEW to the U podcast we are talking mapping borders and territories and its impact on identities in Africa in the late 19th and early 20th centuries with Professor Julie MacArthur, an Assistant Professor in UofT Mississauga's Department of Historical Studies and cross appointed in the Department of History in the Faculty of Arts & Science on the U of...

Kajri Jain is an Associate Professor of Indian Visual Culture and Contemporary Art in the Department of Visual Studies at U of T Mississauga and in the Department of Art at UofT St. George, with a cross-appointment at the Institute for Cinema Studies and in the Centre for South Asian Studies. She is interested in how the values associated with images arise not only from what you see in the visual...

On this edition of the podcast, Professor Tracy Rogers plots her research path that has led to her place as forensic anthropologist at the University of Toronto Mississauga and as a consultant with the Ontario Forensic Pathology Service. She discusses her broad program of research that touches on several areas, including identifying skeletal remains, analyzing bone composition, and investigating s...

On this edition of the podcast, Professor Jennifer Stellar from the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto Mississauga discusses her program of research that touches on several areas, including how individuals and social groups thrive. Her lab particularly focuses on the ways in which various positive emotions, such as compassion, awe, empathy, and gratitude, can improve an individu...

We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming – Women in Academia – to bring you this special edition of VIEW to the U that features Kent Moore, a Professor in the Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences at UofT Mississauga (UTM), and as of July 1, 2018 is UTM’s Vice-Principal, Research, appointed for a three-year term. On this episode, Kent talks about his research, which investigates cli...

The guests on this edition of VIEW to the U are University of Toronto Mississauga Professors Neda Maghbouleh and Jasmine Rault. Neda and Jasmine define and explore their particular studies, covering topics such as race, immigration, ethics, place, sexuality, archives and digital humanities. Today we go beyond limits – not just of race and gender, but also moving past some traditional models of how...

On this episode, Professor Lindsay Schoenbohm talks about her work that uses the landscape to read tectonics, with tectonics being the process that affect the properties and the structure of the Earth’s crust and its evolution over time. We also cover some of the faraway locales she has travelled to in order to conduct her fieldwork – venturing most commonly to ‘seismically active parts of the wor...