Rick Miller received his Ph.D. in 1975 from Northwestern University.  He has taught at Georgetown University, the University of Cologne, and is currently chair of the Psychology Department at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, a position he has held for the past 20 years.  He served for many years as the Director of applied behavioral science research projects for the Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO) in Heidelberg, Germany after which he set up a community college program for English speaking residents of Mallorca, Spain. Rick is past-President of the Nebraska Psychological Society and has served three terms as President of the UNK Chapter of Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Society. He is a past-President of the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association and continues to serve on the Executive Board as Historian. Rick is the special topics editor for the Journal of Psychological Inquiry and the coordinator of the Wertheimer-Portenier Teaching Conference. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science. Under his leadership, the UNK Department of Psychology was recognized as the 1999 Outstanding Teaching Department in the University of Nebraska system. In 2009 he received the Robert S. Daniel Teaching Excellence Award from the Society for the Teaching of Psychology and was named US Professor of the Year by CASE and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.