Hai-Lung Dai, dean of the College of Science and Technology, has received a grant from the Air Force Office for Scientific Research for a project titled “Structure and Spectroscopy of Buried Interfaces in Organic Thin Films and Colloids.”  The research aims to develop nonlinear optical approaches for characterizing the structure, bonding, and kinetic and dynamic processes occurring at the interfaces in colloids and organic thin films. The grant will pay $450,000 over three years. Dr. Dai is also funded by the National Science Foundation for a research project on vibrational spectroscopy of colloidal particles.