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Hai-Lung Dai (born 1954 in Taiwan) is the Provost, Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, and Laura H. Carnell Professor of Chemistry at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[1] As Provost, he is the academic administrator overseeing 16 schools and colleges and responsible for undergraduate and graduate education, faculty affairs, student life, enrollment management, technology and computer services, institutional research, international affairs, and libraries. [2]A chemist by training, he actively conducts research with current grant support from the National Science Foundation (Chemistry and Environment), Airforce Office of Scientific Research, and Army Research Office.[3][4][5]

Biography

Prior to moving to the United States, Dai earned a Bachelor of Science degree from National Taiwan University in 1974. After military service in Taiwan, he came to the U.S. and earned a PhD in chemistry (advisor C. Bradley Moore) from the University of California, Berkeley in 1981. He did postdoctoral research (with Robert W. Field and James L. Kinsey) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1981-1984.

Dai began a 22-year career at the University of Pennsylvania in 1984. He served two-terms as Chair of the Chemistry Department, funding Director of the Penn Science Teacher Institute, and the Hirschmann-Makineni Professor of Chemistry.[6].The Penn Science Teacher Institute was cited as a model for science teacher training in the National Academies’ white paper “Rising Above the Gathering Storm.”[7] In 2006, Dai testified in the U.S. Senate on an HR bill on math and science teachers’ training and retention.[8]

Dai joined Temple University in 2007 as Dean of the College of Science and Technology, where he strengthened faculty, tripled research funding, improved facilities, and initiated a research-focused financial aid program that expanded research opportunities for undergraduate students.[9] He also established the TUteach program for science majors to be certified as high school teachers,[10] and started a new 250,000 foot state-of-the-art building for science education and research (opened in 2014).[11]

In 2010, Dai took on additional responsibility as Senior Vice Provost for International Affairs. He launched Temple’s dual bachelor’s-master’s degree program for international students with dozens of foreign partner universities, set up a new liaison office in Beijing, and dramatically increased the number of international students on campus. [12]He received the 2013 Michael P. Malone International Leadership Award from the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities.[13]

In 2012, Dai was appointed Interim Provost by then Acting President Richard Englert. In February 2013, he was named Provost by President Neil Theobald.[14] Under his watch, Temple launched new scholarship programs, the Fly-in-4 academic contract and financial aid program for improving graduation and retention, and the Temple Option, which facilitates student applications beyond the SAT score, and saw student applications nearly doubling and a rapid increase in rankings.[15][16] He launched new programs with emphasis on supporting faculty hiring and research. Temple became a Carnegie R1 Highest Research Activity institution in 2016. In the most recent Webometrics ranking based on Google citations of faculty, Temple ranks 29th in the world. [17]Dai was elected as the Chair of the Chemical Physics Division of the American Physical Society in 2005. [18]He held a gubernatorial appointment in the Pennsylvania Drugs, Devices and Cosmetics Board from 1998-2002.[19]

Dai is also active in choral and orchestral music. In college, he was the assistant conductor of the National Taiwan University Chorus. He continued to conduct throughout his career: the Berkeley Chinese Students Choir, the Boston Chinese Philharmonic Choir, and the Chinese Musical Voices in the greater Philadelphia area from 1986 to 2003. In 1995, he co-conducted (with Alan Harler of Mendelssohn Club) an orchestral concert celebrating the 125th anniversary of Philadelphia Chinatown at the Academy of Music [20]. Since arriving at Temple in 2007, he conducted a concert at the Kimmel Center commemorating the 10th anniversary of the College of Science and Technology.[21] In 2013, he co-conducted the newly formed Accent Orchestra (with violinist Cai Liang) in the Beijing Concert Hall and the Shanghai City Symphony Orchestra (with Cao Peng) in the Shanghai Science Hall in 2014.[22] He appeared in several concerts with the Ambler Symphony (with Jack Moore) on Temple’s campus and in Fort Washington.[23]

Personal Life

Dai has two children, Amber and Franklin.

Research and Awards

An active researcher in experimental physical chemistry with interests in molecular spectroscopy and chemical dynamics, surface and colloid chemistry, and biophysical chemistry, Dai has published more than 190 articles and edited two books and five journal volumes. His research included the development of Stimulated Emission Spectroscopy, time-resolved FTIR spectroscopy, time-resolved surface spectroscopy, Second Harmonic Generation and Light Scattering, and their applications for characterizing highly excited vibrational levels, van der Waals complexes, collision energy transfer of highly excited molecules and radicals, surface photochemistry, surfaces of colloidal objects including nanoparticles, and molecular transport through living cell membranes. Over the years, he has received research grants from the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, Airforce Office of Scientific Research, Army Research Office, American Chemical Society, and other funding agencies and foundations. The awards he has received include:

1985 Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation New Faculty Award[24]

1988 Sloan Fellowship[25]

1989 The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar Award[26]

1990 Coblentz Award in Spectroscopy

1992 American Physical Society Fellow[27]

1992 Morino Lectureship, Morino Foundation and the University of Tokyo, Japan

1994 Alexander von Humboldt Award for Senior US Scientists[28]

1995 Philadelphia Section Award, American Chemical Society[29]

2000 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship[30]

2006 Ellis Lippincott Award for Spectroscopy of the Optical Society of America[31]

2009 Distinguished Achievement Award, the Institute of Chinese Engineers in the U.S.

2009 Clearfield Lectureship, Texas A&M University

2010 American Chemical Society Fellow[32]

2012 Langmuir Lecturer Award, Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry, American Chemical Society[33]

2013 Michael P. Malone International Leadership Award, Association of Public and Land Grant Universities

Temple University Provost Hai-Lung Dai
Born 1954
In Office 2013-present
Preceded by Richard M. Englert
Institutions: Temple University, University of Pennsylvania
Alma Mater University of California, Berkeley (PhD), National Taiwan University (BS)
Fields Physical and analytical chemistry
Profession Laura H. Carnell Professor of Chemistry

References

  1. ^ "Meet the Provost". temple.edu.
  2. ^ "Provost Portflio". temple.edu.
  3. ^ "NSF Award Abstract". NSF.gov.
  4. ^ "Funded Research at CST" (PDF). temple.edu.
  5. ^ "Outlook CST" (PDF). temple.edu.
  6. ^ Chemistry Chairs, University of Pennsylvania Almanac
  7. ^ "Hai-Lung Dai bio,"Institute for Corean-American Studies
  8. ^ "Protecting America's Competitive Edge,"U.S. Senate Bill
  9. ^ "Outlook CST" (PDF). temple.edu.
  10. ^ "[Hai-Lung Dai Named Temple University Provost], Temple University
  11. ^ "SERC: A New Era in Scientific Exploration". temple.edu. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
  12. ^ "[Hai-Lung Dai Named Temple University Provost], Temple University
  13. ^ "International Insight" (PDF). temple.edu.
  14. ^ "Interim provost appointed to permanent spot"
  15. ^ "Minority applicants flock to Temple after it dropped test requirement". Sue Snyder.Inquirer philly.com. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  16. ^ "Temple Option Will Open More Doors". temple.edu.
  17. ^ "Temple University reaches height of Carnegie research classification". temple.edu.
  18. ^ {{cite web|url=http://slideplayer.com/slide/8353095/%7Ctitle=Seminar Announcement|work=Slideplayer.com}
  19. ^ "Focus Group Sessions". nap.edu.
  20. ^ Sandy Smith, "Faculty Feature: Good chemistry between Dai and his singers" Penn Current, March 18, 2004
  21. ^ Sue Snyder, "Temple scientist's love of music taking him to China to conduct" Inquirer, June 29, 2013, philly.com
  22. ^ "Passion for music, love for science"
  23. ^ "2015 Chinese New Year concert" (PDF). amblersymphony.org.
  24. ^ "University of Penn Almanac". upenn.edu.
  25. ^ "Penn Notables". archives.upenn.edu.
  26. ^ "Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program" (PDF). Dreyfus.org.
  27. ^ "APS Physics Fellowships". aps.org.
  28. ^ "Humboldt Network". humboldt-foundation.
  29. ^ "ACS Philadelphia Local Section". acs.org.
  30. ^ "Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellows". gf.org.
  31. ^ "Award winners". .osa.org/.
  32. ^ "ACS Philadelphia Local Section". acs.org.
  33. ^ "2012 ACS Langmuir Lecturers". acs.org.

External Links

Temple University Office of the Provost

Dai Group

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