Shoshanna, at the Queen’s Park subway station.
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ENGINEERING HER FUTURE U of T’s Shoshanna SAXE’02 is now at the forefront of sustainability research in transit infrastructure BY AMY VERNER
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The READ Winter 2017–18
oughly six years ago, after earning her master’s in civil engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and before pursuing her PhD at the University of Cambridge, Shoshanna Saxe arrived at a realization: she is never not thinking about the environment. It’s on her mind if she doesn’t turn off the tap when brushing her teeth; if she takes the elevator instead of the stairs; if she buys something that has too much packaging; if she gets in a car instead of walking or using public transit. She subsequently realized that all of these
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