PROFESSOR of Psychology Daniel G. Mossler was on sabbatical in the fall with a Visiting Scholar position at the University of Connecticut. He joined a team working on a research project at the Yale University Adoption Clinic. The project involved evaluating the long-term outcomes for children who have been adopted from other countries.

At the 2006 annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association in Baltimore, Mossler, with students W. Gregory Danahy ’08, Brendan E. Lee ’06, Nathaniel W. Philips’06, Efthimios Efremidis ’07, Joshua D. Black ’07, and Lara Mossler, presented a research report on “Differences in the prediction of academic success for male and female college students.”

A report on “The use of emotional intelligence and academic motivation to identify and predict which students will and will not graduate from college” by Mossler, with Danahy, Efremidis, and Lara Mossler, presented at the 2007 annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association in Philadelphia, received a Regional Research Award from the Psi Chi Honor society for the best research presentation at the conference.

With colleagues from the University of Virginia, Mossler presented “The relationships between child abuse, foster care home placements, and child psychopathology” at the meeting of the Association for Psychological Science in Washington, D.C., last May.

Mossler has taught at the College since 1993 and was promoted to the rank of professor in 2005. He received his B.A. from the University of Texas, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. He received the 2007 Cabell Award, given to “a Hampden-Sydney faculty member in recognition of outstanding classroom contribution to the education of Christian young Men.”

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Hampden-Sydney College Faculty Scholarship 2005-2008
A report by the Office of the Dean of the Faculty