Outdoors she's an adventurer. Indoors she's a top notch professor.

T.A. Loeffler of Memorial University has been named winner of the Atlantic Universities Distinguished Teacher Award. Loeffler tries to get her students out of the classroom as much as possible. Earlier this month, she took a group rock climbing in Flatrock. She will attempt to climb a mountain in Russia late this summer and another in South America in December. She''s currently fundraising for a climb of Mount Everest next year.