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We are based at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) campus. Telling one UTM story at a time. Interviews are conducted, hosted, edited, and produced by Carla DeMarco. Original music by Tim Lane. I wish to acknowledge this land on which the University of Toronto Mississauga operates. For thousands of years it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from acros ...
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An ode to audio and the UTM academic communityCreator and current host of VIEW to the U (VTTU) Carla DeMarco is embarking on a secondment with the Office of the Vice-Provost, Students at U of T St. George. VTTU might return in some iteration, as yet TBD. But for now, Carla is hanging up her headphones, and handing back the audio equipment. Please s…
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Creating more equitable environments in academiaOn this episode of VIEW to the U, guests are Profs Scott Jess and Lindsay Schoenbohm – Lindsay is a faculty member in UTM's Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences, where she has served as its Chair since 2019, and Scott, a former postdoc in Lindsay’s lab, is currently a faculty member in the Sch…
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Kids, kindness, and communityOn this episode of VIEW to the U, Tina Malti, a faculty member in the Department of Psychology, and the Director of the Centre for Child Development, Mental Health, and Policy – or CCDMP for short - talks about her work at CCDMP, which was established in 2019, and for which she is the Founding Director. But Tina is a wo…
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This is, once again, a VIEW to the U first: it’s a Part II continuation of another episode with guests Mary-Rebekah Reyes and her brother Romario, just in time for Halloween to talk about their short horror film Short Drop.It is audio from the chat with them in September 2023, however it contains some spoilers on their film Short Drop. So, if you d…
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Community support, love, and artOn this episode of VIEW to the U, Mary-Rebekah Reyes and Romario Reyes, a sister and brother team and a truly dynamic duo, talk about Short Drop, a short film they made together – Romario was the writer and director, and Mary-Rebekah produced it. Short Drop has recently made the rounds at film festivals over the past…
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The value of community engagement in academiaOn this episode of VIEW to the U, Andreas Bendlin, a faculty member in the Department of Historical Studies, and UTM’s current Vice-Dean, Academic Experience, touches on his work in Classics & Roman History, with expertise in ancient religion and ancient civilizations, in many areas, but particularly in …
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On this episode of VIEW to the U, Professor Andreas Hilfinger talks a bit about his work in Chemical & Physical Sciences, but we also get to hear about the work of Professor Meghan Sutherland from Visual Studies. It's a bit of a film review with two brilliant UTM researchers, and we are talking about Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer and Greta Gerwig…
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In honour of Canadian Multiculturalism Day, which comes around each year on June 27, on VIEW to the U, we are talking about identity that directly correlates to the language that we use. On this episode, featured guest, Professor Ai Taniguchi talks about her work as a linguist in UTM’s Department of Language Studies, as well as her art, which anima…
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On this episode of VIEW to the U, Nick Rule, UTM’s new Vice-Principal, Academic and Dean, and a professor from the Department of Psychology in the Faculty of Arts & Science, talks about his research related to social cognition, and how first impressions can persist in colouring our perceptions of people. He is a leading expert on the concept of “ga…
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Stewards of SustainabilityThe Curb the Rain team, who placed first in the Rain It In Competition in 2021, includes Lauren O’Malley, Nandaraye Choi, Borys Brodziuk, and Tina Elliott. The Curb the Rain team were accepted into the Leap Startup League program presented by ICUBE UTM and Sheridan EDGE. They were also finalists in the Early Stage Finalist…
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On this episode of VIEW to the U, Professor Doug VanderLaan from UofT Mississauga's Department of Psychology talks about his work in the Biopsychosocial Investigations of Gender Laboratory – or the BIG lab for short - and this interview highlights Doug's work in gender diversity and gender expression. In the BIG lab, Doug has several lines of resea…
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On this episode of VIEW to the U, Ajay Rao, an associate professor in the Department of Historical Studies, and UTM’s current Vice-Dean, Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs, talks about his work, including the Global Past project, which recently received funding with a University of Toronto Connaught Global Challenge Award, and is an undertak…
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Taking the plunge into podcasting and floundering at universityThis episode of VIEW to the U features two UofT Mississauga undergraduate students from different disciplines who found common ground in their relation to academic failures – but also successes along the way. Harleen Kundan and Loridee De Villa were able to turn their experiences and di…
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Have you ever wondered about what all the role of a Dean entails? Well, we have got a guest for that: on this episode of VIEW to the U, UofT Mississauga’s current Vice-Principal, Academic and Dean Amrita Daniere fills us in on the joys and the challenges associated with serving in this role at UTM, as well as some of her priorities for the UTM camp…
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The guest on this episode of VIEW to the U, Professor Ruba Kana'an, a historian of Islamic art in the Department of Visual Studies at UofT Mississauga, talks about art and architecture, how it enriches our lives, what we can learn from it, and the stories it tells about people and places. Ruba also talks about her history with the work she has done…
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A sweeping scholarly smorgasbord On this episode of VIEW to the U, the guest is Zoë Wool, an assistant professor from UTM’s Department of Anthropology. Very few researchers cover as much ground in a research program as Zoë does, and over the course of this interview, Zoë talks about this range of work, which spans medical and sociocultural anthropo…
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This episode of VIEW to the U features Professor Alana Ogata from UTM’s Department of Chemical & Physical Sciences. Over the course of this interview, Alana talks about her bioanalytical chemistry research that measures proteins, which are at the root of all biological functions and processes and has relevance for disease diagnostics and treatment.…
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On this episode of VIEW to the U, Drs. Katie Harris-Howard, Elizabeth Parke, Dmitry Pichugin, and Vera Velasco from the Office of the Vice-Principal, Research at UofT Mississauga, talk about their roles as Senior Research Associates or SRA.So, what is an SRA?At their core, they are educators and academics in their own right, with established progra…
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On this episode of VIEW to the U, Professor Kristen Bos from UTM’s Department of Historical Studies talks about her research on Indigenous feminisms, with among other things, considers the past, present, and future of seed beads. These little beads that have been used by Indigenous communities for thousands of years, vary in size but usually measur…
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To kick off this new season of VIEW to the U, we are picking up where we left off – with representation from UTM’s Department of Psychology – but this time around the featured guests are two new faculty members, Professors Anna Kosovicheva and Benjamin Wolfe, co-directors of the Applied Perception and Psychophysics Lab, or APPLY Lab, that was recen…
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On this episode of VIEW to the U we highlight Professor Keisuke Fukuda, also known as K, who talks about his research related to visual working memory and how memory guides behaviour. But along with that, K also talks about other studies his lab is taking on such as why is it so hard to forget things we would rather not remember and how memory dist…
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This edition of VIEW to the U features Professor Nicole Charles in Women and Gender Studies from UTM's Department of Historical Studies. On this episode she talks about her research related to hesitancy around the human papillomavirus vaccine in Barbados, and why the word “suspicion” resonates so much for her in her work, which intersects across se…
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On this edition of VIEW to the U, Professor Anna Korteweg from the Department of Sociology at U of T Mississauga talks about the motivations behind her research in immigration integration, policy and practices. She also outlines the work she has done with her long-time collaborator from Humboldt University in Germany, Professor Gökçe Yurdakul.Very …
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On this short day’s journey into night – coming just in time for the winter solstice, Professor David Samson is featured on this edition of VIEW to the U, on which he talks about his evolutionary biology research in UTM’s Department of Anthropology. For this season of the podcast, which is a focus on "adventures in research," David shares his stori…
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On this latest episode of VIEW to the U, Professor Peter Kotanen from the Department of Biology at UofT Mississauga discusses his research and current projects, which have “ecological interactions between plants and their natural enemies,” such as herbivores, insects, and pathogens, at their core. But our chat is also infused with a couple of Peter…
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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 …
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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 …
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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 h…
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Métis matters in research and in CanadaOn 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 conf…
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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 tr…
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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 illuminate…
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The value of Art and times of social upheavalIn 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…
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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…
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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…
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Technological tools for education & connectionFor 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 Technol…
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Immigrant wellbeing and Global HealthFor 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, alon…
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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 of…
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Plugged into robotics researchJessica 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…
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Reimagining Research & RootsMaria 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 Bro…
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Dialectical DiscoursesJune 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 highlightin…
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Roots to ReconciliationOn 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 Anthro…
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Arctic AnecdotesOn 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, w…
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Mothers and migrationOn 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…
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Destination: AfricaOn 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 Hist…
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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 imag…
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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 remain…
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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…
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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…
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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, bu…
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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 mos…
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