Hai-Lung Dai is a

Taiwanese-American Taiwanese Americans ( Chinese: 臺灣裔美國人; pinyin: ''Táiwān yì měiguó rén''; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ''Tâi-Bí-jîn'') are Americans of Taiwanese ancestry, including American-born descendants of migrants from the Republic of China (Taiwan) ...

physical chemist Physical chemistry is the study of macroscopic and microscopic phenomena in chemical systems in terms of the principles, practices, and concepts of physics such as motion, energy, force, time, thermodynamics, quantum chemistry, statistical mecha ...

and university administrator. He currently is the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Chemistry at

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, in the United States.

Biography

Dai was born in Taiwan. He completed a B.S. in chemistry at

National Taiwan University National Taiwan University (NTU; zh, t=國立臺灣大學, poj=Kok-li̍p Tâi-oân Tāi-ha̍k, p=, s=) is a National university, national Public university, public research university in Taipei, Taiwan. Founded in 1928 during Taiwan under J ...

in 1974, following military service, and went to the United States in 1976 for graduate studies. He obtained his

doctorate A doctorate (from Latin ''doctor'', meaning "teacher") or doctoral degree is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism '' licentia docendi'' ("licence to teach ...

in chemistry from the

University of California at Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after the Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkele ...

in 1981, and then did

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at the

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until 1984. That year he began teaching in the chemistry department of the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. One of nine colonial colleges, it was chartered in 1755 through the efforts of f ...

, where he remained for twenty-two years and became

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and the Hirschmann-Makineni Professor. He founded the Penn Science Teacher Institute that eventually trained 300 in-service science teachers and was named as a model for training science teachers in a 2005 National Academy of Sciences white paper. In 2007 he became

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of the College of Science and Technology of

, also in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was Provost of Temple University during 2012 - 2016. During his time as provost, Temple's USNWR ranking went from #135 to #115 and Temple became a Carnegie R1 Highest Research Activity University. In 2017, Dai was appointed vice president for International Affairs at Temple University.

Selected publications

* Hai-Lung Dai, Robert W. Field (editors) (1995)
''Molecular dynamics and spectroscopy by stimulated emission pumping''
Singapore; New Jersey; London; Hong Kong: World Scientific. . * Hai-Lung Dai, Wilson Ho (editors) (1995)
''Laser spectroscopy and photochemistry on metal surfaces''
Singapore; New Jersey; London; Hong Kong: World Scientific. .

Recognition

Dai has received several honors and awards, among them: * 1985:

Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation is a New York City-based foundation founded in 1946 by chemist and investor Camille Dreyfus in honour of his brother, Henry Dreyfus. The two men invented the acetate yarn Celanese, and Henry Dreyfus was ...

New Faculty Award * 1988:

Sloan Fellowship The Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded annually by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1955 to "provide support and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars". This program is one of the oldest of its kind in the United States. ...

* 1989: The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar Award * 1990: Coblentz Award in Spectroscopy * 1992: Fellowship of the American Physical Society * 1994:

Alexander von Humboldt Award The Humboldt Research Award (), also known informally as the Humboldt Prize, is an award given by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany to internationally renowned scientists and scholars who work outside of Germany in recognition of t ...

for Senior US Scientists * 1995: Philadelphia Section Award, American Chemical Society * 2000:

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are Grant (money), grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon Guggenheim, Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon indiv ...

* 2006:

Ellis Lippincott Award Ellis is a surname of Welsh and English origin. Retrieved 21 January 2014 An independent French origin of the surname is said to derive from the phrase fleur-de-lis. It has also been noted to be a Jewish surname. People with the surname include ...

for Spectroscopy of the Optical Society of America * 2009: Distinguished Achievement Award, the Institute of Chinese Engineers in the U.S. * 2010: Fellowship of the

American Chemical Society The American Chemical Society (ACS) is a scientific society based in the United States that supports scientific inquiry in the field of chemistry. Founded in 1876 at New York University, the ACS currently has more than 155,000 members at all ...

* 2012: Langmuir Lecturer Award, Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry, American Chemical Society * 2013: Michael P. Malone International Leadership Award, Association of Public and Land Grant Universities * 2017: Knight Order of the Italian Star, Government of Italy * 2017: Distinguished Alumni Award, National Taiwan University * 2019: Hai-Lung Dai Festschrift, Journal of Physical Chemistry, American Chemical Society

References

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