Joy Morris
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Joy Morris (born 1970)[1] is a Canadian mathematician whose research involves group theory, graph theory, and the connections between the two through Cayley graphs.[2] She is also interested in mathematics education, is the author of two open-access undergraduate mathematics textbooks, and oversees a program in which university mathematics education students provide a drop-in mathematics tutoring service for parents of middle school students. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Lethbridge.
Morris is originally from Toronto, Ontario.[2][3] Both her parents had doctorates; she was the youngest of their four children, another of whom also earned a Ph.D.. She was educated through various alternative-education and gifted-student programs in the Toronto public school system.[3] She graduated from Trent University in 1992[4] with a double major in mathematics and English, and with fourth-year honours in mathematics earned in part through a summer research project with Brian Alspach at Simon Fraser University.[3]
She entered graduate study directly after graduating, continuing to work with Alspach at Simon Fraser,[3] and completed her doctorate in 2000 with a dissertation on Isomorphisms of Cayley Graphs.[5] Morris joined the Lethbridge faculty in 2000, and was promoted to full professor in 2015.[2][4] As of 2017[update] her position as a professor at Lethbridge was for half-time.[3]
Mathematics education
In 2017, after learning about the frustrating experiences of her middle-school daughter's friends' parents, Morris founded a drop-in mathematics tutoring center through the University of Lethbridge, in which Lethbridge mathematics education students would tutor middle-school parents on the mathematics their children were learning, and provide educational activities for the parents to do with their children.[3] The program was successful, and has continued in subsequent years.[6][7]
