Chem Prof Scott Daly receives NSF CAREER award

Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Scott Daly
Scott Daly

University of Iowa Professor Scott Daly has received an NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award.

The NSF CAREER program offers the NSF’s most prestigious awards in support early-career faculty who “have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization,” according to the NSF website.

Daly is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry, part of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.

His research uses coordination chemistry as a means to address unmet challenges in CO2 reduction chemistry, catalysis, and nuclear science.

The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences offers about 70 majors across the humanities; fine, performing and literary arts; natural and mathematical sciences; social and behavioral sciences; and communication disciplines. About 15,000 undergraduate and nearly 2,000 graduate students study each year in the college’s 37 departments, led by faculty at the forefront of teaching and research in their disciplines. The college teaches all Iowa undergraduates through the college's general education program, CLAS CORE. About 80 percent of all Iowa undergraduates begin their academic journey in CLAS. The college confers about 60 percent of the university's bachelor's degrees each academic year.