Alumni Spotlight 2018

Alison Gibbs

Alison Gibbs stands in front of a whiteboard
Alison Gibbs (BMath '88) Associate Professor, Teaching Stream and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies in Statistics at University of Toronto, was recently awarded a prestigious teaching award. 

Alison was one of 10 professors from universities across Canada to be named a 2018 3M National Teaching Fellow by the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. 

The 3M National Teaching Fellowship is considered a very prestigious recognition of excellence in educational leadership and teaching. The award was founded in 1986 through a partnership between the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education and 3M Canada, up to 10 Canadian academics annually are named fellows. 

Alison is highly regarded by her students for being passionate about the study, and real-world applicability of statistics and is known by her colleagues for taking an innovative pedagogical and cross-disciplinary approach to her work. 

Alison lived at St. Paul's in Fall 1983 and Spring 1984.

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