Professor Gwendolyn Eadie is an outstanding early-career educator whose teaching has had a transformative impact on statistics and astronomy education at the University of Toronto and internationally. Appointed as the University’s first joint faculty member between Statistical Sciences and Astronomy & Astrophysics, Professor Eadie has pioneered interdisciplinary teaching in the emerging field of astrostatistics. She has combined excellent teaching, robust mentorship, and pedagogical scholarship to help create a community of engaged educators across both of her home departments. 

Leveraging her certificates in undergraduate teaching, Professor Eadie has developed new courses that provide mixed cohorts of statisticians and astronomers with the skills to tackle hard problems in the field of Big Data. She created JAS1101: Introduction to Astrostatistics, which integrates peer instruction, active learning, and engagement with real data. The course has consistently received student evaluation scores exceeding 90% and continues to grow in enrollment. Her pedagogical scholarship is cited internationally and has led to multiple invitations for her to teach at and eventually lead international summer schools at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía in Granada. At the University of Toronto, she co-founded Starfish School, a bootcamp in computing, statistics, and scholarship that now forms part of the core graduate curriculum, and leads the Astrostatistics Research Team, fostering mentorship and interdisciplinary collaboration within and beyond the university. Through sustained innovation, scholarly rigor, and deep commitment to student learning, Professor Eadie exemplifies excellence in early-career teaching.