Daniel Webster

Prof. Webster joined Georgia Southern University in 1991 and retired in 2020.

 — Biography from the 2021 Spring Commencement program —

Dr. Webster began teaching at Georgia Southern University in 1991, after teaching eight years at Delta State University. With degrees from the University of Wisconsin and the University of Florida, he studied comparative and physiological psychology in a career that included a variety of subjects, from insects and reptiles to humans. He also taught a wide range of over 20 courses during his career, most of which dealt with physiology and behavior across a spectrum of animal species. In addition to these, he frequently taught courses in critical thinking. Dr. Webster developed and taught Georgia Southern's first online psychology course, which then served as a model for other online courses because of his use of video lectures incorporated into the course, a novel approach at the time. With a colleague, he wrote a successful grant for equipment used in physiological psychology courses and research. His later research focused on SOSA, a three-dimensional computer program that can be used in psychological assessment. SOSA was developed with the assistance of software engineering students, who used the program in their capstone class. He published 27 peer-reviewed articles and dozens of presentations at scientific conferences. A founding board member of the Georgia Psychological Society, he helped to develop ways for student researchers to present their scholarship. He also facilitated scholarship through his service, as a member or alternate, on the Institutional Review Board throughout much of his career. For these and many other contributions to the department, college, University, and profession, Dr. Daniel Webster merits the title of Associate Professor Emeritus of Psychology.*