2007 Cabell Award for Distinguished Teaching Citation

This year’s recipient of the Cabell Award for distinguished teaching goes to an individual who joined the Faculty in 1994, and since then has established himself as a highly successful and exceptionally popular teacher. His classes routinely are filled to overflowing, and his office—virtually always open to his students—typically has two or three young men sitting around talking with him about critical issues raised in class, or about their research projects, or about the Tiger basketball team. He challenges his students at every turn. He forces his students out of their “comfort zones” by making them face questions from his discipline that have real and direct effects on their lives. But the teaching doesn’t stop when he leaves his office or when he departs from the sidelines of a soccer game, where he is regularly found. The dinners he puts on at his home for students, past and present, are legendary, and he uses the opportunity of sitting around on his wide front porch after dinner to continue discussions on critical issues in psychology and human behavior. He has been innovative in the use of technology in teaching, has brought his developmental psychology students together with their female counterparts from one of our sister schools for debate and discussion, and has consistently involved students in his own scholarly research. It is with great pleasure that I announce the winner of this year’s Cabell Award, Professor of Psychology Daniel G. Mossler.

May 13 , 2007