Dr. Emmitt Ohmer Milton joined the faculty of the Department of Psychology in 1946, and in 1965 he became the founding director of the Learning Research Center, a position he held until his retirement in 1983. He achieved a reputation on campus as an unusually creative teacher of psychology, and he gained international recognition for his investigations into college teaching and learning. His interests in testing and grading are reflected in publications such as Will That Be on the Final? (1982) and Making Sense of College Grades (1986), coauthored with Howard Pollio and James Eison. He also authored many scholarly articles in professional journals.
In 1974 he received a Distinguished Contribution to Education in Psychology Award from the American Psychological Association. His contributions to the intellectual life of the university have been recognized by placement of a plaque in his honor on a faculty study.