Kendra Daly
Education and career
Education and career
--------------------

Daly has a B.S. (1973\) and a M.S. (1990\) from the [University of Washington](/wiki/University_of_Washington "University of Washington"). In 1995 she earned her Ph.D. from the [University of Tennessee](/wiki/University_of_Tennessee "University of Tennessee") with a dissertation on zooplankton in the Arctic. Following her Ph.D. she did postdoctoral work at [Oak Ridge National Laboratory](/wiki/Oak_Ridge_National_Laboratory "Oak Ridge National Laboratory") and was a program director at the [National Science Foundation](/wiki/National_Science_Foundation "National Science Foundation"). In 2001 she moved to the University of South Florida where she was promoted to professor in 2014\.


How has Daly's experience at the National Science Foundation influenced her approach to teaching and research?