Milton D. Hakel

Milton D. Hakel is the Ohio Board of Regents' Eminent Scholar in Industrial and Organizational Psychology at Bowling Green State University, in Bowling Green, Ohio. Dr. Hakel began his career with research on selection interviewing practices, supported by the National Science Foundation. Research support has also come from the Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, and Army, as well as the private sector. He chaired the Scientific Advisory Group for the U.S. Army's Project A, the largest study ever undertaken of the longitudinal measurement and meaning of human differences. Dr. Hakel is a former Fulbright-Hays Senior Research Scholar in Italy (1978), and a winner of the James McKeen Cattell Award for excellence in research design from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). Dr. Hakel chaired the Coordinating Committee for the Human Capital Initiative, a national effort to bring psychological science to the attention of governmental and private sector officials as a source of solutions to national problems. He serves on the Board on Testing and Assessment of the National Research Council. Recently he co-chaired a working retreat on Applying the Science of Learning to University Education. An edited book on this topic was published in March, 2002. Dr. Hakel received his Ph.D. in Psychology in 1966 from the University of Minnesota.