Diola Bagayoko is a Malian-American professor of physics at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
[1] In 1973, Bagayoko earned degrees in chemistry and physics from Ecole Normale Superieure in Barnako, Mali.
[1] Bagayoko's mentoring model consists of student-centric goals like fostering confidence, involving students in research, and monitoring them.
[1] Bagayoko uses the power law of human performance and his belief that scientific knowledge is acquired cumulatively to push students away from self-doubt.
[3] Bagayoko taught courses in introductory and mathematical physics, as well as classical, relativistic, and quantum mechanics in the United States and abroad.