Cynthia Mohr, Psychology faculty, and student Debi Brannan co-authored "Evidence for Positive Mood Buffering Among College Student Drinkers" published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 34, Issue 9, 2008.

Leslie Hammer, Psychology faculty, was awarded a five-year, $4.1 million grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. The grant will fund the Center for Work-Family Stress, Safety, and Health. It is part of a $28 million initiative funded by the National Institute of Health and the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention to support research on workplace policies that reduce work-family conflict and improve the health of workers and their families.