E-Mail IMAGE: University of Houston psychologist Elena Grigorenko, is using sailors' multidimensional profiles to fit the sailor to the proper job, and permit individualized Navy vocation counseling, decreasing the costs of unproductive... view more Credit: University of Houston Recruiting and selecting the proper sailors for specific tasks in the U.S. Navy has proven tricky, with costs rising yearly as the military seeks to match sailors with appropriate specialties. A University of Houston professor of psychology and a team of collaborators is out to save the military money and streamline the process by developing a new personnel selection process, the Manpower and Personnel Assessment Battery (MPAB).