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One campus, many fields, questions anyone can follow.
An interview podcast from the University of Toronto Mississauga, where Carla DeMarco asks faculty and alumni to talk through their work in approachable terms. One conversation covers mentoring and belonging in earth science, and another has a brother and sister explaining how they staged a shot of a taxi driver being hit by a car.
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VIEW to the U: An eye on UTM academic community is an interview podcast built around the University of Toronto Mississauga and its academic community. Carla DeMarco, Academic Communications and Outreach Manager in the Office of the Dean, conducts the interviews and edits them herself. Some of that work happens in the office, some at home, some over Zoom. What connects the episodes is the campus, not a single subject. Tina Malti, who directs the Center for Child Development, Mental Health and Policy, describes her long-term hope of shaping public health frameworks that account for the needs of each community and each child. She notes that past research relied on middle to high income samples, and she stresses the need to understand needs shaped by different experiences and cultural customs. Andreas Bendlin, an associate professor in historical studies, makes the case for community-engaged learning. The idea is simple: students go out into the community, learn something the university may not give them, and come back enriched. He also reflects on how both an atheist outlook and a faith perspective can get in the way when studying historical traditions. Earth science professors Scott Jess and Lindsay Schoenbohm turn to equity in their own field. Their conversation weighs quotas against mentoring programs that widen the pool of candidates for faculty positions. It also describes what microaggressions and a missing sense of belonging do over time, a slow wearing down that can discourage people from staying in the field. So inclusion is a thread that runs through more than one episode. The arts get their turn. Mary-Rebekah Reyes, an alumna of the Art and Art History Specialist Joint Program between UTM and Sheridan College, talks with her brother Romario, a freelance artist trying his hand at filmmaking. They cover artwork drawn from folklore characters and from a social and political climate that was affecting women, growing up in a creative household, and making art as a way of coping. A companion episode, 'Mary-Rebekah and Romario Reyes (Pt II - Spoiler Episode)', gets practical and explains how a shot of a taxi driver being hit by a car was built from three separate shots with the camera locked in place. DeMarco's questions are plain and curious. At one point she asks a guest who holds the AstraZeneca Chair in Biotechnology to explain the work so that people who are not science people can understand it. An episode titled 'Final Episode for current host (for now)' reads out, in order of appearance, the names of the people interviewed over the years. It also thanks Tim Lane for the original music and for help learning a Zoom H4n recorder and Audacity. Another episode's sign-off leaves open the possibility that the podcast will return in some new format. What a listener gets is a cross-section of one campus, from child development and earth science to historical studies and a film made by a brother and sister.
Made for: Suits a listener who is curious about what researchers and alumni connected to the University of Toronto Mississauga work on, and who likes hearing people in child development, earth science, historical studies and the arts talk it through in approachable terms.
What sets it apart: It covers one campus rather than one subject. A single interviewer, who also edits the episodes, moves from child mental health to hiring equity in earth science to community-engaged learning to a film made by a brother and sister.
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 across Turtle Island and along with being lucky enough to encounter the amazing researchers that I do, I am truly grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land.Carla DeMarcoCommunications Managercar.dema…
Barbie gets a faculty critique here; your next casual movie take may need citations.
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Academic belonging depends on what happens after access, especially in the systems that lead into faculty life.
Equitable academic spaces come through as a practical question of access, belonging, and the path into faculty hiring. Scott Jess, an assistant professor in earth science at Washington State University, and Lindsay Schoenbaum, an earth science professor and chair of the…
A clear look at how community knowledge reshapes child-development research from the measures up.
Tina Malti's work starts from a practical public health problem: every child and community brings different needs, so research has to be built with that variation in mind.
Two siblings connect art, coping, creative education, and community through a film and the support around it.
Mary Rebecca Reyes and her brother Romario Reyes give this UTM community conversation an easy center: art, love, and community support as parts of the same lived practice.
Books, systems, and the questions that unlock them.
Coastal science, patiently and beautifully reported.
Soil life, climate repair, practical regeneration.
Scott Jess and Lindsay Schoenbohm discuss the 2023 Demographic Trends in Canadian Academic Geoscience report and the UTM podcast View to the U, focusing on EDI in geoscience.
Tina Malti says community-based research means the community has "a strong saying and voice" from start to finish.
Mary Rebecca Reyes and Romario Reyes discuss Short Drop, a short film that played at the Film and Folklore Festival in Trinidad and Tobago and the Caribbean Tales International Film Festival in Toronto.
Andreas Bendlin argues that AI use requires protecting students' and faculty members' intellectual property.
Andreas Hilfinger says Oppenheimer captures physics’ power while compressing years of frustrating research into cinematic momentum.
Ai Taniguchi’s Limage project turns interviews with 13 multilingual U of T students into digital comics about language and identity.
Nick Rule studies snap judgments that people form from as little as a twentieth of a second of exposure.
Four MSCSM graduates formed Curb the Rain, a team that won the 2021 Rain It In competition with a permeable curb concept.
An Arctic researcher discusses fieldwork, polar bear encounters, and community-engaged contaminant monitoring in northern Canada.
An interview with Professor Neda Magbouleh discussing her research on stress among Syrian newcomer mothers and her book on Iranian Americans and whiteness.
An interview with Professor Julie MacArthur about her research on mapping borders and identities in Africa, and related topics.
Professor Kent Moore shares his serendipitous journey into climate modeling and his enduring passion for scientific discovery.