U of T Magazine Spring 2017

Spring 2017

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So you want to build a startup? Ten lessons from some of U of T’s – and Canada’s – top entrepreneurs. Feature stories on saving Canada’s endangered Indigenous languages and Ursula Franklin, a pioneering U of T physicist whose work helped bring about the 1963 treaty to ban nuclear testing.

In This Issue

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ICUBE UTM

The name of this U of T Mississauga business accelerator refers to three “i” words central to entrepreneurship Read More

Data Minding

A mathematician offers ideas on how to protect ourselves from hackers without making our digital devices impossibly complex to use Read More

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Woke

The term emerges from African-American vernacular as a call to action, says U of T prof Cassandra Lord Read More