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Hai-Lung Dai is a physical chemist, academic administrator, and advocate for science education. He is dean of the College of Science and Technology, Laura H. Carnell Professor of Chemistry and senior vice provost for International Affairs, at Temple University.

Career and education
Prior to moving to Temple University in 2007, Dai was Hirschmann-Makineni Chair Professor of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania. He joined the Penn faculty as an assistant professor in 1984, was promoted to full professor in 1992, and served as chairman of the Chemistry Department from 1996-2002.

Dai was a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earned a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, and received a bachelor’s degree from National Taiwan University.

Research
Dai’s major research accomplishments include the discovery of the dominating contribution of long-range interactions in collision energy transfer, the development of Fourier transform spectroscopy with fast-time resolution and multiple-resonance spectroscopy for detecting unstable molecules and transient radicals, and the development of nonlinear optical techniques for probing molecule-surface interactions.

Dai has published more than 150 peer-reviewed articles in the fields of molecular science and surface science. He co-edited the World Scientific Advanced Series in Physical Chemistry volume Laser Spectroscopy and Photochemistry on Metal Surfaces.

Science education activities
An advocate of science education, Dai founded the Penn Science Teacher Institute at the University of Pennsylvania in 2004 and directed the program until moving to Temple University. The program offered advanced science courses to middle and high school teachers wishing to increase their science background.

Dai contributed to the 2007 U.S. National Academies report Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future as a member of the K–12 Education Focus Group.

Dai is a co-principal investigator for the TUteach program, which provides science and mathematics majors in Temple University's College of Science and Technology with pedagogical training and classroom experience in order to produce highly qualified science and mathematics teachers. TUteach is a grantee of the National Math and Science Initiative’s UTeach replication program.

Societies and awards
Dai is a fellow of the American Physical Society and chaired its Division of Chemical Physics. He was an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow from 1988-1990 and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow in 2000. He received the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Distinguished New Faculty Award in 1985 and the Teacher Scholar Award in 1990, the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists in 1994, the Coblentz Society Award in spectroscopy in 1990, the Ellis R. Lippincott Award of the Optical Society of America, the Society of Applied Spectroscopy, and the Coblentz Society in 2006, and the Chinese Institute of Engineers' (New York) Distinguished Achievement Award in 2009. He gave the Morino Lecture at the University of Tokyo in 1992, the Molecular Science Lecture at the Chinese Academy of Science (Institute of Chemistry) in 2002, and the Clearfield Lecture at Texas A&M University in 2009.