Some people can juggle chainsaws.
Some people can lie on a bed of nails without wincing.
What Rhonda Amsel does might strike some as even more remarkable. She can take a classroom filled with students who would rather be almost anywhere else and help them conquer statistics. That's one of the reasons why Amsel recently won one of the country's top prizes for teaching. This summer she became McGill's first teacher to win the Canadian Professor of the Year Award offered jointly by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, the Canadian Council for the Advancement of Education and Merck Frosst. In 1991, Amsel won the Leo Yaffe Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Faculty of Science.