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On-Campus Tours

We're excited to welcome you to the U of T Scarborough campus! Join one of our current students to explore our campus and discover top-notch facilities, vibrant student life, inclusive community, cozy residences, and detailed insights into our diverse degree programs.

Important note about Student Housing & Residence Life: Tours of our student housing spaces are currently unavailable due to end-of-semester move out. 

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Group Tours 

Request a group tour exclusively designed for organized groups with 10 or more participants. If your group consists of fewer than 10 individuals, please book a standard campus tour. 

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Campus Tour Videos

Explore a U of T Scarborough building or destination in under two minutes! All campus tour videos are hosted, written, and produced by our students.

Virtual Tour (On Demand)

Try our  virtual tour  and enjoy a self-guided visit to the campus. Visit our buildings, student housing, services, classrooms, recreational facilities, and the Valley Land Trail.

VR Video Tour (On Demand)

Take a walk through the U of T Scarborough campus with our  virtual reality video tour.  Use your web browser, mobile device, or VR headset.

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Visit U of T

Located in downtown Toronto, the University of Toronto St. George campus is open to the public to visit.

If you plan to come to campus, we encourage you to familiarize yourself with UTogether and the Office of the Vice-Provost, Students website .

U of T campus map

Visit a comprehensive and interactive virtual map of St. George campus.

Campus tours

U of T offers a variety of virtual and in-person campus tour options including virtual reality, self-guided and student-led tours.

Visit a U of T residence or housing facility

Before coming to campus, family and friends are encouraged to check the  Housing website  for updates regarding visitors to U of T’s residences and housing facilities.

Visit academic or administrative facilities at U of T

If you are planning to visit an academic or administrative facility on campus, please consult  U of T’s COVID-19 information webpage  to access the most up to date information regarding individual building operations and entry guidelines.

Visit for student convocation and graduation celebrations

If planning to visit U of T in celebration of your student’s graduation, check out the  graduation and convocation webpage  for information on upcoming convocation events, including virtual ceremonies.

Transportation

There are a variety of ways to get to and travel around U of T’s campuses.

Before coming to Canada, we recommend that international family and friends of students stay up-to-date on guidelines concerning COVID-19’s impact on travel  and  campus life at U of T .  

If you are outside Canada, you may be required to obtain a  visitor visa  or other immigration-related documentation before visiting your student at U of T. Your student may be able to support your  visitor visa application process  by providing a  letter of invitation  and proof of their enrollment. U of T students may download a  Confirmation of Enrollment Letter  directly from their  ACORN  account.   

There are a variety of ways to get to and travel around U of T’s campuses.

Two of the public transportation options accessible via U of T’s St. George campus are Go Transit/Metrolinx (GO) and the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC).  

For information on accessing campus locations using the TTC, please visit U of T’s Transportation Services Public Transit: TTC website.   

For more information on accessing campus locations using the GO, please visit U of T’s Transportation Services Public Transit: GO website .

U of T operates a  Campus Shuttle  bus for individuals traveling between the Mississauga (UTM) and St. George (UTSG) campuses. For more information about the Campus Shuttle, please visit the  Transportation Services website .  

Information regarding on-campus and close-to-campus vehicle parking and bicycle locker locations , parking permits , at U of T St. George Campus can be found through the U of T’s Transportation Services website.

Billy Bishop Airport  and  Toronto Pearson  are two airport options close to U of T. The  TTC’s bus, streetcar or subway options  may be used to transfer from Billy Bishop to U of T St. George campus. The  Union Pearson (UP) Express  train and  TTC Airport Express Bus  may be used when transferring from Toronto Pearson Airport to U of T.

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If you are concerned for a student who is studying internationally, please contact the local emergency services in that area.

Student Mental Health Resource

This website helps students navigate a variety of mental health resources.

For immediate mental health support, use the Telus Health Student Support app or call 1-844-451-9700 . Outside of North America, call 001-416-380-6578 . Available in 146 different languages.

Visit U of T

Spring into u of t.

Spring Into U of T There are many ways to visit and engage with the University of Toronto this spring! Whether you’re dropping by for a tour during March Break, enjoying a virtual information session or connecting with our recruitment staff or current students, there’s something for everyone!

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U of T Mississauga

Join us during your break for campus tours, residence visits, information sessions, extended opportunities to speak with our staff, and experience U of T Mississauga! Can’t make it? Check out our  March Open House  on Sunday, March 24.

U of T St. George

St. george campus tours.

Regular campus tours are available year-round .  During March Break, we are offering extra opportunities to explore our beautiful St. George Campus.  Between March 9 th and 16 th , tours are available every 30 minutes between 10am and 2pm, with an opportunity to speak with a recruitment officer afterwards. 

Focused Tours 

To welcome students with other March and spring break dates, we’re offering special tours just for US students and Canadian students in other provinces.  

John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design 

We welcome you to visit the Daniels Building at 1 Spadina Crescent. Join us for a small group tour of our building and facilities and chat with your tour guide who is a graduate or current student in one of our programs. The Daniels Building, completed in 2017, has 30,000 square feet of studio space, an expansive main hall for lectures and public events, an 8,000-square-foot public design gallery, an on-site library, and a digital fabrication laboratory equipped with the latest in design technology

Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering

March break open house – saturday, march 9th, 2024.

The Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering’s March Break Open House provides the opportunity to discover the exciting things happening in our Faculty. Join us for tours, information sessions, a programs fair, and a clubs fair! 

Introduction to U of T Engineering  – Monday, March 11th & Thursday, March 14, 2024

Join U of T Engineering Recruitment staff for one of our special online presentations. The first 30 minutes will be an overview of our Engineering programs, opportunities, academic requirements and community. Afterwards, there will be an interactive period lead by an Engineering Recruitment Officer where they will answer any questions you have about applying to and studying at U of T Engineering 

This presentation is designed for students currently in grades 9 and 10. 

Engineering Tours

The best way to experience U of T Engineering is by visiting our campus. The Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering offers guided tours throughout the year. Each tour is followed by a tour talk with one of our recruitment officers. 

Black Student Experience Panel

In collaboration with the National Society of Black Engineers U of T Chapter (NSBE U of T), U of T Engineering hosted a session where 3 current U of T Engineering students shared why they chose U of T Engineering, their student experience, and their advice for future students. Check out the recording here.

Faculty of Arts & Science and the Colleges

Start imagining your day-to-day life as an Arts & Science student by joining a student guided virtual tour of the St. George campus. Find out more about our programs, campus life and our amazing buildings and student spaces that will shape your experience here.  

Drop-in Chats with a Current Arts & Science Student

Chat with a current Arts & Science student and learn about what it’s like to attend the University of Toronto! From learning what you can expect from first year lectures, to finding out the best places to eat on campus, you’re sure to enjoy these drop-in chats!

Chestnut Residence Tours

Thinking about living at Chestnut Residence? Take a tour! Chestnut Residence will be offering tours of the building (including a student room, as well as shared spaces and facilities) Monday March 11 th  to Friday March 15 th  from 10am-2pm (offered every 30 minutes). Tours are drop-in – no registration required.

Please meet in the lobby of Chestnut Residence to join a tour!

Rotman Commerce

Learn more about the Rotman Commerce experience by attending a student panel session and taking a tour of our spaces guided by an RC Student Ambassador.  

Spanish and Portuguese Department Open House

Calling all high school students! Are you curious about studying languages in university? Do you want to start or continue your studies in Spanish or Portuguese? Interested in learning more about Latin America?

Come to visit us during our March Break Open House! You will have a chance to attend one of our course meetings, tour the campus, chat over lunch with current students in our Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies program, and enjoy a full day of exploration.

Limited spots available: register to attend before March 12!

Faculty of Kinesiology & Physical Education

The Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education is located at the heart of U of T’s St. George campus, where students enjoy the advantages of being immersed in one of the world’s leading research universities while studying in a small, close-knit community. Students can access the Athletic Centre, the Varsity Centre and the Goldring Centre for High Performance Sport to engage in academic and non-academic activities. Come visit our facilities, engage with our student ambassadors and learn more about what we have to offer.

Faculty of Music

Music tours +.

We invite you to visit March 11-15 for an enhanced Faculty of Music Tour experience! Come and see the music-making spaces in the Edward Johnson Building with a tour led by a current music student and follow-it up with immersing yourself in one of our ensemble rehearsals! Student Ambassadors and Recruitment Staff will also be available to answer questions before and after the tours/rehearsals. 

PRELUDE: THINKING OF APPLYING TO MUSIC? (VIRTUAL INFO SESSION)

In this introductory virtual session, prospective undergraduate students will get an overview of what we offer at U of T Music! Recruitment staff will introduce you to our breadth of program options and current students will join to share their first-hand experiences.

This session is a great first step in learning what’s available to you, and how to start preparing for a future application and audition.

U of T Scarborough

Campus tours.

Experience the U of T Scarborough campus through one of our in-person or online events. You’ll learn more about our programs, co-op opportunities, and supportive campus community.

March Showcase Open House – Saturday, March 23

Discover what it’s like to be a student at U of T Scarborough! Our March Showcase open house is your best opportunity to:

• Attend program information sessions
• Visit labs and studios
• Check out our first-year residence building
• Meet faculty, staff, librarians and students
• Learn about our student services that are designed to help you thrive

On-Campus and Online Events

There is still plenty to discover at the University of Toronto Scarborough! View a list of our on-campus and online events.

Find out more about campus tours here . Your starting point depends on which campus you decide to take a tour of (Mississauga, St. George or Scarborough campus). Be sure to prepare for your tour by watching our tour videos and bringing along questions for your student tour guide.

It depends on where you’ll be coming from, and which of U of T’s three campuses you’ll be visiting. Find directions and maps for each campus here .

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Our location.

The Rotman Commerce Recruitment & Admissions offices are located at 125 St. George St. We’re conveniently located at the corner of St. George Street and Bloor Street West, at the St. George subway station. Street parking is available nearby, and an underground pay lot is available in the parking garage of the Rotman School of Management at 105 St. George St .

Office hours

We’re closed for all statutory holidays and during the University’s  winter break .

Come visit our beautiful campus! Check out the campus tour schedule for St. George campus and register for a date that works for you.

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Our virtual tour.

Virtual Tour of Campus for

Graduate students.

In-person tours

In-person tours will return for the next application cycle. Please refer to the virtual tour above and stay tuned for more information about in-person tours.

What does an in-person Tour include?

The tour will include:

• A shared suite featuring a full kitchen, common space, and washrooms
• Our 9th floor reading room overlooking our beautiful courtyard
• Some of our study nooks located throughout the residence
• Our common television room with theater-style seating
• Our laundry facility on the courtyard level
• Our courtyard common area (with billiard table, ping pong table, lounge space, and music room)
• Our courtyard with barbecue (weather permitting)

Please note that tours are not held on public holidays or days when the University is closed. A complete list of days the University is closed can be found  here .

Why Graduate House is better than off-campus housing

Central Location

We are centrally located in downtown Toronto.

We are conveniently located on campus.

trustworthy

A trustworthy team that cares about the student experience.

fully furnished

All our units come fully furnished.

All Utilities included

Electricity, water, heat, air conditioning, internet are all included in our costs.

Great ProgramMing

We offer exclusive programs and services for residents.

Amazing staff

Our staff are friendly, knowledgeable, and student-focused.

Learn more about applying

Room types, fees & contracts.

Living in Graduate House is conveniently located, safe and fun too! Graduate and second-entry students from many faculties at UofT call this place home.

Take a Tour of the Community!

There are so many ways to explore our community!  We are thrilled to offer IN-PERSON TOURS , LIVE ONLINE TOURS , A VIRTUAL 360 TOUR , &  RECORDED VIDEO TOURS of our community.   All tours are delivered by current Trinity College students!  Please see below for more details.

It is our pleasure to connect with you for any questions about the Trinity College community. Questions? Please email [email protected]

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TRINITY COLLEGE COMMUNITY TOUR OPTIONS

• Starting Friday, January 12th, IN-PERSON TOURS will be offered every Friday at 3:00pm, every Saturday at 10:00am, and every Sunday at 3pm, until April 8th.
• Special March Break Tours – Monday, March 11th to Sunday, March 17th – in-person tours every day!
• There are no tours during exams, to allow our tour guides & room hosts to focus on their academics.  There are also no tours between the Fall/Winter and Summer sessions.
• Register for in-person tours AT THIS WEBSITE .
• Masks are no longer mandatory, but encouraged.

Winter 2024 - Trinity College ONLINE Tours

• Starting Wednesday, January 10th, Virtual Online Tours will be offered on Zoom every Wednesday (8pm, Toronto time) until April 15th.
• There are no tours during exams, to allow our tour guides to focus on their academics.  There are also no tours between the Fall/Winter and Summer sessions.
• Register for tours AT THIS WEBSITE .

Summer 2024 - Trinity College In-Person/Online Tours

• More information to come.

Fall 2024 - Trinity College In-Person/Online Tours

MORE WAYS TO EXPERIENCE OUR COMMUNITY

A virtual tour is a great way to see all that Trinity College has to offer, regardless of whether or not you are planning on living in residence!  Take a SELF GUIDED 360 TOUR of Trinity College .  Learn about life at Trinity, admission information, residence and student life information, the Margaret MacMillan Trinity One Program, University of Toronto courses and programs, and more!

“I fell in love with Trinity and knew it was the right place for me when I came for my campus tour. It’s definitely the best way to find out all that Trinity has to offer. Join us for a tour – I’d be happy to show you and your family around our beautiful campus and answer any questions you may have. Hope to see you soon!”

WHAT’S IT LIKE TO BE A STUDENT AT TRINITY COLLEGE?

OTHER WAYS TO VISIT TRINITY COLLEGE & THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

Fall Campus Day in November provides prospective students with the opportunity to talk to students, faculty, and staff; learn about courses and programs; and explore the campus in person! Current Trinity College students will be on hand to deliver tours to our guests throughout the day.  The tours will start every half hour, starting at 10am.  The last tour will depart at 3pm in the afternoon.  Make your way to 6 Hoskin Avenue, and come explore Trinity’s buildings and campus.  Learn more about Fall Campus Day and other Faculty of Arts & Science events on this regularly updated webpage .

March Break College Tours - March 11th to 17th

Special March Break Tours – Monday, March 11th to Sunday, March 17th – in-person tours every day!  Delivered by current students! Get to know our campus and residences at Trinity College!  Register for in-person tours AT THIS WEBSITE .

U of T General Virtual/In-Person Tours

Information about University of Toronto virtual AND in-person campus tours is available through the Nona MacDonald Visitors Centre at 25 King’s College Circle (416-978-5000 or visit the U of T campus tours website ).

Questions? Contact our team at:

THE STUDENT SERVICES CENTRE

Office of the Registrar [email protected]

Office of the Dean of Students [email protected]

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Library tours

Virtual library tours, robarts common, robarts library 4 th floor reading room, robarts library orientation tour.

Robarts Library Architecture Tour

Gerstein Science Information Centre Virtual Tour - Fall 2020

OISE Library

A tour of the Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library at the University of Toronto | 多倫多大學鄭裕彤東亞圖書館

UTSC Library

In-Person Library Tours

Engineering & Computer Science Library

• Tours may be requested by emailing [email protected] or calling 416-978-6494.

Gerstein Science Information Centre (Health Sciences)

• Tours of the Gerstein Library are available on request. Email  [email protected]  to make arrangements. 

OISE, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (Education)

• OISE offers in-person tours on a registration basis and also  video tours . Email  [email protected]  to make arrangements.

John P. Robarts Research Library (Humanities & Social Sciences)

• Robarts Library tours are available on request for current U of T students, faculty, and staff. Email [email protected] to make arrangements.
• Visitors, including high school and college groups, prospective students, and others are welcome to schedule a  St. George (downtown) Campus Tour , that includes a stop at Robarts Library.

University of Toronto at Mississauga Library (UTM)

• Visitor information and tours for the community, alumni and high school students.

University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC)

• Tours of the UTSC Library are available on request. Email [email protected]  or call 416-287-7500 to make arrangements.

Virtual Campus Tours

Guided virtual tour.

Click the banner at the top of the page to be taken to our Guided Virtual Tour . Explore our campus through 360-degree panoramas, curated image galleries, and insightful videos about the people and places that make up our community. Take a dive into the incredible research taking place on campus, visit the apiary, learn about the opportunities available to help you flourish. See it all!

Self-Guided Campus Tour

Through our interactive self-guided campus tour, explore the campus at your pace and discover the many spaces that make up our community.

Residence Tours

Residence at U of T Mississauga offers you the most diverse range of housing options available anywhere at U of T. Take a tour of these spaces in our 360 experiences.

VR Video Tour

Use a VR headset, mobile device, or a web browser and see all three U of T campuses in action through our virtual reality tour.

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Discover Days

These monthly online events include informative sessions hosted by our staff, a student-led virtual tour, and an insider look at the day-in-the-life of a current student.

#TourTuesday

Enjoy a mini-tour of our campus, which focuses on different spaces and shares some of our students' stories along the way.

In-person Tours

Want to check out our campus with your own eyes? Sign up for an in-person tour! We are excited to welcome prospective undergraduate students on campus once again, with a modified route and safety precautions to safeguard the health of our guests, tour staff, and the university community.

Haga clic en el banner de la parte superior de la página para acceder a nuestro Tour Virtual Guiado. Explore nuestro campus a través de panoramas de 360 grados, galerías de imágenes y videos interesantes sobre las personas y los lugares que conforman nuestra comunidad. Entérese de la increíble investigación que se lleva a cabo en nuestro campus, visite las colmenas, conozca las oportunidades disponibles que lo ayudaran a prosperar. ¡Míralo todo!

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The Faculty of Information is pleased to offer a variety of admissions events for our programs, including information days / nights, webinars, student experience panels, virtual tours, weekly drop-in chats with a member of the admissions team, and more!

On this page, you will find information on upcoming events, links to recordings of previous events, and more!

Click the button below to download the 2023 / 2024 Admissions Viewbook for information about our Faculty and available programs:

2023 / 2024 Bachelor of Information (BI) Events

Want to learn more about our second-entry Bachelor of Information (BI) Program? Join us for an upcoming admissions event to learn more about the curriculum, work integrated learning opportunities, financial aid, admission requirements, career prospects, and more!

Information Day: A chance for you to meet hear from our BI Program Director, Student Services Staff and Current students about everything BI.

VIRTUAL: Saturday, April 27 (11:00 am – 12:00 pm ET) – Register here

Please email: [email protected] to set up an admissions advising appointment with Lindsay if you have any questions about the BI program.

2023 / 2024 Masters Information Days (MI / MMSt / CDP)

Attend an Information Day and hear from current students, faculty and staff about course work, work integrated learning opportunities, financial aid, admission requirements, etc. in the Master of Information (MI) & Master of Museum Studies (MMSt) Programs; as well as the Combined Degree Program (CDP) option (MI + MMSt). Find out about career prospects, student services, admission requirements, internships, practicum and more.

Information Day #1 (Virtual): Tuesday October 10 (4:00 pm – 8:00 pm ET)

Information Day #2 (In-Person): Saturday November 18 (10:30 am – 4:00 pm ET)

Information Day #3 : (Virtual) : Saturday January 20 (10:00 am – 1:00 pm ET) – Register today!

Previous Event Recordings can be found on our YouTube page .

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2023 / 2024 Information Session (PhD)

The doctorate program features advanced scholarly research in the theoretical basis of information, media and technology studies. In private and public institutions, apply the PhD to professional practice functions such as research, systems analysis and design, and administration. Attend this session to learn more about the admissions process and application requirements.

Thursday October 26, 2023: 6pm – 8:30 pm ET – Event Recording (October 26, 2023) on the Faculty of Information YouTube page 

Previous Event Recordings

• PhD Information Day: Event Recording (October 22, 2020)

Masters of Information & Masters of Museum Studies — General Program & Admissions Webinar

Are you curious to learn more about University of Toronto’s Master of Information and Master of Museum Studies Programs? Do you have general admissions questions? Join us for a webinar!

Tuesday November 28: 12pm – 1pm ET – Registration is open!

We are Visiting You!  Further Education Fairs Across Canada

We will have a booth at the following 2023 Education & Professional School Fairs; stop by and chat with a representative from the iSchool! 

September 13: University of Toronto (Mississauga)

September 19: Simon Fraser University

September 21: University of British Columbia

September 27: McMaster University

October 3: University of Calgary

October 4: University of Toronto (Scarborough)

October 5: Mount Royal University

October 5: OCAD University

October 5: York University

October 5: University of Toronto (St. Michael’s College)

October 11: Trent University

October 17: University of Guelph

October 18: Wilfrid Laurier University (Waterloo)

October 19: University of Waterloo

October 21: Canadian Celebration of Women in Computing Conference

October 23-25: ACCESS Library Technology Conference in Halifax

October 24: Dalhousie, Mount Saint Vincent & Saint Mary’s University

October 25: Guelph-Humber University

October 27: University of Western

November 1: Queen’s University

November 8 & 9: INFOCon (Virtual) – Register Today! 

Interested in studying in, or researching in the field of information science? This virtual conference will consist of presentations from faculty from across the iSchools Collaborative Network on emerging topics in the field.

• Professor Jenna Hartel will be presenting on “ An Archipelago of Information Science “

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This article was originally published by Sean McNeely on U of T News on September 1, 2020. Reprinted with permission.

Drew Rickard  is still determining what, and what not, to share.

He’s part of a group of Indigenous students from the University of Toronto and young adults from across the GTA who are being trained to lead virtual tours that celebrate the rich Indigenous history of U of T’s three campuses and surrounding areas.

The third-year Faculty of Arts & Science student and member of Woodsworth College – who is majoring in philosophy and exploring minors in political science or Indigenous studies – is both excited and a little nervous. He’s never been a tour guide before.

“My interest in this is really in my identity and reconnecting with that,” says Rickard who is a member of the Cree First Nation. “I’m proud of who I am. This is a missing puzzle piece for something that I was already putting together – and so far it’s been a great learning experience.”

The guides in training are encouraged to complement historical information with their own personal knowledge and experiences, giving the tours added depth and substance.

That’s the part Rickard wrestles with.

“It’s not easy to share who you are in an intimate way with people who you don’t know,” says Rickard, who plans on adding elements of his family history from Moose Factory, Ont. “And some of the materials we deal with tend to be very sensitive and very charged.”

Set to begin this fall, the tours are part of an initiative from an ongoing partnership between U of T and First Story Toronto, an organization originally known as the Toronto Native Community History Project. First Story is dedicated to researching and preserving the Indigenous history of Toronto and the surrounding region.

Jon Johnson , an assistant professor, teaching stream, at Woodsworth College,  has been a part of First Story and the Toronto Native Community History Project for years . Johnson, who is mostly of French Canadian descent and has a small amount of Haudenosaunee and Kichisipirini ancestry, is overseeing the training along with  Jill Carter , (Anishinaabe/Ashkenazi) an assistant professor with the Faculty of Arts & Science’s Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies.

The first cohort of guides, including Rickard, completed their training this summer while a second group is set to begin their instruction later this fall, bringing the number of new guides to 17.

Originally, the plan was to have the guides give in-person tours, but the pandemic forced the tours to shift to an online format, using 360-degree video and other digital resources to host tours through platforms like ZOOM or Microsoft Teams.

The new format will in no way lessen the impact of having Indigenous young adults lead the tours, according to Johnson.

“They’re going to bring a whole variety of perspectives and knowledges that may not be as visible in an older generation of guides,” he says. “It’s going to really energize the tours.”

Carter expects both the guides and the guided to benefit from the experience.

“Their stories, the lessons they draw from past teachings, the ways in which they have learned to read the land and their experiences as young Indigenous Peoples are crucial additions to First Story,” Carter says. She adds, “These guides are working with elders to recover the language of these territories, becoming intimate with buried histories and gaining skills in oratory and digital storytelling. These skills and this experience will ultimately serve them well when pursuing future academic and professional goals.

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For Rickard, leading the tours is an opportunity to better connect with his own roots while bringing the historical information to life.

“There are a lot of themes of identity loss and retrieval and I think having people from the communities is not only a way of addressing that, it will also make the participants’ experience that much more real,” Rickard says.

Still, he says he has no intention of trying to persuade anyone’s thinking or opinions. “I think it’s important to allow someone to come to their own conclusions. I think that has more staying power than telling someone what something definitively is.”

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Biotech company Atorvia was recently named the first-ever winner of the SpinUp Blue Ticket program, sponsored by Merck (photo by Chokniti Khongchum via Pexels)

Published: April 19, 2024

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Acute kidney injury can be devastating for patients, resulting in chronic kidney disease, end-stage renal disease, stroke and heart attack.

There’s currently no effective treatment for the condition, which the World Health Organization estimates affects some 78 million people each year. The only option is supportive care like dialysis which requires patients to rearrange their lives around lengthy hospital treatment sessions.

Atorvia is looking to change that. A woman-led biotech startup headquartered in the Ottawa area, Atorvia is developing novel treatments that target the molecular causes underlying kidney damage.

The company was recently named the inaugural winner of the Blue Ticket competition at the University of Toronto Mississauga’s SpinUp wet lab incubato r. Sponsored by pharmaceutical company Merck, the Blue Ticket program aims to empower the next generation of global health innovators.

As prize winner, Atorvia receives a free one-year membership to SpinUp, an up-front cash prize and mentorship from scientific and business leaders at Merck.

“This opportunity is game-changing for us,” said  Jane Lapon , founder of Atorvia. “It will help us to accelerate faster.”

Among Atorvia’s key innovations is a treatment that addresses acute kidney injury that occurs as a complication of cardiac surgery. The company is developing medicine that can be administered before a patient undergoes cardiac surgery, in order to help prevent kidney failure.

While preliminary experiments have been carried out, the company needed dedicated space and equipment to conduct further lab work – something that’s hard to come by for biotech startups with limited financial resources. “The fact that SpinUp was there with availability, and was subsidized, was fantastic,” Lapon said.

“Because we’re getting the mentoring with Merck as well, it means that we can develop this medicine and hopefully get it to patients sooner. We’ve got this expertise to help us along the way.”

Lapon said startups often face a “very lonely journey,” but that the mentorship and financial resources provided by Merck, as well as SpinUp’s vast network, will provide much-needed support. “One of the advantages of SpinUp is that we’ve got access to University of Toronto researchers and the potential to then partner with some of the researchers, as well as students and co-op students,” Lapon said. “With the resources we have, there is a very high probability that we would have this ready to go into trials during our first year at SpinUp.”

She said team is currently gearing up to re-run previous experiments and conduct new ones in order to validate the medicine and prepare for filing with health authorities.

Kent Moore , vice-principal, research at U of T Mississauga, said he looks forward to tracking Atorvia's progress. “Strong partners like Merck enable us to enhance the support SpinUp offers to propel promising early-stage startups,” said Moore. “We're delighted to be working with Merck to help drive Atorvia’s innovative approaches forward through Merck’s mentorship support and SpinUp’s wet lab capabilities and programming.”

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April 19, 2024

Steve Lipscomb will use his expertise to expand the Alderson & Griffin Center for Family Business & Entrepreneurship as its executive director.

Steve Lipscomb wants his students at Texas Tech University 's Jerry S. Rawls College of Business to understand it's not often a business comes together according to plan. 

He knows success stories like that can seem unrealistic, but from his experience creating the World Poker Tour (WPT) in the early 2000s, it can happen – and fast. 

“The first three to five years played exactly as I had pitched to our investors,” Lipscomb recalled. “I told them we were going to make this into a televised sport and people were going to flock to it.”

Lipscomb remembers it was like riding a wave as he juggled the titles of CEO, promoter, writer, producer and director, determined to transform poker into a televised mainstream sport. As he gained his balance and began to enjoy the view, he became a huge believer in the art of doing – an endurance race he still enjoys today. 

Lipscomb will not only practice this work ethic, but also will strive to “create and iterate” as the newly hired executive director for the Alderson & Griffin Center for Family Business & Entrepreneurship . The center provides innovative networking opportunities, insightful educational forums and discussions, relevant academic programs and applied research to a wide range of entrepreneurs including emerging leaders, successors, senior generations, students and key nonfamily executives.

“The center is an important addition to the fertile ground we are seeding at Rawls and Texas Tech to encourage students, faculty and our community to help us build the futures we all desire,” said Rawls College Dean Margaret L. Williams . “We are excited to have Mr. Lipscomb join our exceptional faculty as an associate practice professor and look forward to benefiting from his years of experience building, advising and shaping successful public and private ventures.”

The Alderson & Griffin Center for Family Business & Entrepreneurship is strategically positioned at the intersection of corporate enterprise, entrepreneurial innovation and academic research. Lipscomb is “all in” to further elevate its collective creation, progress and understanding.

“I think nobody knows what you're capable of more than you do,” he said. “The center will be a place where people can discover what that means for them.”

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In Lipscomb's case, the more he was told the WPT would never work, the more he knew it would. 

There was a time when The New Yorker magazine even weighed in on the WPT phenomenon with a cartoon that jokingly questioned why poker was featured on the Travel Channel. Lipscomb shares in the same bewilderment about his own life path, having earned a Doctor of Jurisprudence from University of Chicago Law School with the intent to become a lawyer. 

While he enjoyed law school and thrived there, the Tennessee native found himself equally intrigued by the classes and performances he participated in at The Second City, a comedy club/theater and school of improvisation in Chicago. Post graduation, he moved to Los Angeles and quickly realized his law firm work was just a way to support his entertainment habit. 

“It was pretty clear in my mind that I was headed do some sort of crazy showbiz stuff,” he said. 

His first film venture was a documentary chronicling changes in the Southern Baptist Convention and its impact on women pastors. The film performed well at festivals, won numerous awards and garnered the attention of Hollywood producers and screenwriters like Al Burton and Norman Lear. 

That opened the door for Lipscomb to begin producing television with them and others. While on hiatus from producing a show for Comedy Central, Lipscomb had the opportunity to produce and direct a one-hour documentary about poker to air on the Discovery Channel. He accepted and quickly became intrigued about the poker world. 

“I witnessed this remarkable, but very small community of people playing poker for a living,” Lipscomb said. “When that one-hour documentary aired, it doubled its audience in an hour with no promotion. Very clearly, there was an audience who wanted to watch poker.”

Lipscomb pitched “poker as a sport” to every network he could find focused on sports or reality programming but was turned down flat. 

“They thought I was nuts,” he recalled, “which turned out to be the best “bad beat” of my life. When they said ‘no,' I quickly managed to raise money and launched the World Poker Tour as the first poker sports league on the planet.”

At first, it was a challenge for Lipscomb to figure out how to make a card game appear exciting and digestible to viewers who are not poker aficionados. He described this trial-and-error process as a post-production tangled mess that took eight months to unravel. 

The solution involved 16 cameras with angles that showed the cards not too little or too much, paired with custom-built graphics that popped out when players looked at their cards and disappeared when they folded. This enabled viewers to comprehend the game even while on mute or in a bar.  

“We did testing in Las Vegas that helped the network understand people were not just interested in fluffy pieces about casinos,” Lipscomb explained. “They wanted to watch the poker.”

Sure enough, once the WPT began airing in 2003, all doubts about Lipscomb's creation were crushed by numbers. Almost immediately on the Travel Channel, they had a household rating of 1.5-2% – comparable to National Basketball Association games at the time. 

Publications such as the Wall Street Journal and Inc. Magazine featured Lipscomb and his WPT success story on their front pages and covers as the show continued to skyrocket in popularity. 

Just one year later, Lipscomb and his executive team looked up in awe at the Nasdaq billboard in Times Square after ringing the bell to take WPT Enterprises, Inc. public. From that point forward, he progressively removed many of his early WPT hats, one by one, to focus on the company's growth as its president and CEO.

“The world changed and I sort of found what I would call ‘my jam,' which was the excitement of building something from nothing and scaling every vertical we could find,” he said, “from consumer products to electronic video games and other categories.”

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Looking back, Lipscomb considers the WPT as his business school of sorts as he worked to transform a television show into a global sports/gaming brand.

“We had an incredible team that didn't say ‘no' a lot,” he credited. “We found ways to say ‘yes' to build things that worked, and when they didn't work, we got better and better at moving on quickly.”

He and his teammates created award-winning consumer products, marketing partnerships and brand-building verticals; while, at the same time, seeding and launching numerous businesses, including the world's first poker talent management company, the first televised card tour in China's history and a popular mobile phone game. 

By 2009, Lipscomb was approached by multiple companies interested in purchasing the WPT. After carefully analyzing the hand in front of them, he and the board decided it was time to cash in those chips. 

“The acquirer was an online gaming group in the market segment that was making most of the money at the time,” he said. “I was not interested in staying onboard, so I walked off into the sunset to find the next thing.”

After his WPT chapter closed, Lipscomb felt empowered by the business knowledge he absorbed from the experience. He remained CEO of the publicly traded shell company and merged it to expand an existing energy company, quadrupling the stock price. He then became CEO of the spinoff company to oversee a private placement memorandum and the monetization of leftover WPT assets, which produced more than $25 million for the new company to deploy in the domestic oil and gas industry.

“Once I handed off management of the two spinoff public companies, I blissfully worked myself out of a job,” he said. “I planned to spend the rest of my time trying to help people build stuff to make the world a better place.”

Lipscomb formed Practicrats, LLC to chase this passion by working with corporations, sports leagues and foundations to build businesses. He is founder/board chair of Gamers.Vote which partners with gamers, influencers and companies to encourage voter participation, as well as GamersAct.org, inspiring gamers to address climate change. He also spent a decade as managing director of FixItAmerica.org which supported bi-partisan resolutions in state legislatures. 

As part of those initiatives, he attended the EarthX conference in Dallas last year where a government official inspired him and other private enterprises to aim toward a more sustainable future. 

“I walked away from there thinking I needed to find a way to do more,” he admitted.

A few conversations later, he learned about the job posting for the Alderson & Griffin Center for Family Business & Entrepreneurship and felt what he describes as a “Star Wars” tractor beam drawing him to the position. 

He is convinced the work being done at Texas Tech can change the world, and this belief only strengthened after his visit to campus. 

“The sort of visionary people like Dean Williams and the leadership at Texas Tech pulled me in,” he said. “I think we have lofty goals, and I say ‘we' because I feel like nothing gets done by an individual. It's always done with people, so to join that community and find a way to try to help it grow and flourish is exciting to me.”

Lipscomb officially began his Rawls College role April 11. He plans to teach one class a semester beginning in the fall, but the Alderson & Griffin Center for Family Business & Entrepreneurship activities will begin immediately and include the ongoing McCoy Family Business Speaker Series .  

“There are great minds here and great things happening,” he said. “I think there's never been a better time, with all of the resources around us, for people to join together and do amazing things. That's what this opportunity means to me.”

Lipscomb laughs as he discloses he would have never imagined jumping up and down to participate in a business school program a year ago. But he says that is the beauty of his remarkably blessed and wonderful journey. 

“I find in life it's always better to pick a path and start walking,” he shared. “If you had told me when I made my first social issue documentary about religious faith that I was going to be the poker guy, I would have told you that was crazy. But that's the way life works, I think. 

“And I certainly encourage everyone around me to do the same. So, if you have something in you that just won't be quiet – something you feel like you need to build – please come and join us.”

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The Leadership Tuscarawas Class of 2024 will present an overview of their community projects at the Graduation Celebration on May 14, 2024, at Kent State Tuscarawas. At the graduation celebration, thirty-two class members will be recognized for their achievements in the 10-month leadership development program.

Each year, the Leadership Tuscarawas class is assigned community projects focused on enhancing the quality of life for people who live and work in Tuscarawas County. Throughout the program, class members work with project partners and other community members to complete their projects. This year’s class worked on six projects. Projects include Tuscarawas Co Senior Ctr Mobility Management plan; COAD Child Care Provider Recruitment; Empower Tusc Suicide Prevention; Tuscarawas County Farmers Market sustainability plan; Tuscarawas Arts Partnership, and Dennison Depot Railroad Museum, Dennison &Ohio Railroad Plan.  Each group will present an overview of their project as part of the evening’s events. Following the presentations, a graduation ceremony will be held with Dean Brad Bielski, Kent State University at Tuscarawas, as the featured speaker.

In addition to working on community projects, Leadership Tuscarawas participants attend monthly program days focused on servant leadership, community awareness and a variety of leadership professional development programs.

During the program, participants have the opportunity to network and learn from each other as well as from many community leaders who are invited to present at monthly program days. Topics of the program days vary and include agriculture, justice, manufacturing, tourism, and government, among others.  Each year, class members take a bus tour of Tuscarawas County, visit local businesses and manufacturers, and tour the Tuscarawas County Jail and Juvenile Attention Center.

Members of the graduating class include Benjamin (Ben) Alderfer; Aultman Health Foundation; Casey Allison, Cleveland Clinic/Union Hospital; Kamie Anderson, The Commercial & Savings Bank; Nichole Bache, New Phila Health Dept.; Jenn Case, Boltaron; Hilary Celuch, Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District; Jacob Christ, First Federal Community Bank; Kevin Cochenour, Kraton; Taylur Cunningham, Dennison Depot Railroad Museum; Kimberly Downin, Tusc. County Probate & Juvenile Court; Joey Ellwood, FNB Corp.; Mary Jo Hanlon, Allied Machine and Engineering; Kimberly Harper Gray, Smartway/Lauren; Allison Hoffman, ECO-ESC; Andrew Hopwood, Allied Machine and Engineering; Kimberly Huston, Kent State; Angel Jewell, Boltaron; Michael Mahaffey, Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District; Briana March, Kraton; Christi Otte, Tusc County Board of DD; Dhruba Panthi, Kent State; Teresa Parrish, Tusco Manufacturing; Jeffrey Pike, Cleveland Clinic/Union Hospital; Raquel Pittman, Mako's Market; Nathan Polen, Allied Machine; Shelagh Pruni, Reeves Victorian Home and Carriage House Museum; Alicia Robertson, Battle Motors; Lisa Sidoti, Tusc Co. Board of DD; Nicole Stephan, Tusc. Co. Public Defenders Office; Michelle Stephens, Dover Chemical; Jessica Warfield, Kraton; and Natasha Yonley, Tusc. County Health Dept.

The community is invited to celebrate the graduating class at Kent State Tuscarawas Founders Hall on Tuesday, May 14 th starting with a reception at 5:30 p.m. Hors d’oeuvres will be served before the opening remarks that begin at 6 p.m.

Please RSVP to William H. Beisel at  [email protected] .

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