EDUCATION

• Ph.D., Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 1983, Theoretical Solid State Physics
• M.S., Solid State Physics, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Penn., 1978
• B.S., Physics and Chemistry, Ecole Normale Superieure de Bamako, Bamako, Mali, 1973 Formal training in the theory and practice of Teaching and Learning, 1969-1973

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• Professor of Physics and Chancellor's Fellow, SUBR, 1994-Present.
• Associate Professor of Physics, SUBR, 1989-Present.
• Assistant Professor of Physics,SUBR, 1984-89. Teaches or taught courses in Introductory Physics, Mathematical Physics, Classical, Relativistic, and Quantum Mechanics. Served as Academic/Research advisor to several students, ten (10) of whom are currently enrolled in Ph.D. programs. Sponsored four national E.P.A. fellows. Bilingual teaching capability in French and English. Revised Course content and syllabi to explicitly take into account the taxonomy of the cognitive domain, recent research findings on cognition, and standards of graduate schools and high technology industries.

RESEARCH ACCOMPLISHMENTS

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

Successfully managed, as project director, sponsored research and instructional grants and contracts over $500,000 per year for the last five years.

RELATED ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Developed a working paper on the dynamics of research stimulus in academia and co-authored "Prosperity through Academic Excellence," prepared for the Louisiana Board of Regents.

University representative on two advisory committees of the Louisiana Board of Regents: Louisiana Education Quality Support Fund (LEQSF) Planning and Louisiana Stimulus for Excellence in Research (LaSER) committees. Associate Director of Louisiana Space Consortium (LaSPACE). Consultant: SREB, Schools/Universities.

AWARDS AND HONORS

• Chancellor's Fellow, distinguished academic appointment at SUBR (1994 - Present).
• SU System's Presidential Faculty Excellence Award (May 1993)
• Louisiana Governor's Award for Excellence in Educational Reform (1993)
• Chancellor's Renaissance Award, SUBR, April 1992.
• Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research, 1989.
• College of Sciences Outstanding Research Award, 1988.
• Research and Teaching Excellence Award, Dept. of Physics, 1986.
• Research, instructional, and other grants totalling over $400,000 per year.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (out of the most relevant 40)

• i. "3d Impurities in Aluminum," D. Bagayoko and Pui-Man Lam at SUBR, Nathan Brener and Joseph Callaway at LSU; submitted to Physical Review B in January 1996.
• ii. "Electronic Structure and Fermi Surface of CrO2," N.E. Brener, J.M. Tyler, J. Callaway, G.L. Zhao, and D. Bagayoko, submitted to Physical Review B (July, 1995).
1. "Renormalization Group Study of Mullins' Equation for Molecular Beam Epitaxy with Conserved Noise," P.M. Lam and D. Bagayoko, accepted for publication, Physica (1995).
2. "Colored Noise in the Dynamics of Aqueous Protein Solutions," P.M. Lam and D. Bagayoko, Physical Review E53, No.1, 1280 (1996).
3. "Hidden Symmetry, Exact Relations, and a Small Parameter in Surface Growth Models with Diffusion," P.M. Lam and D. Bagayoko, Physica A 223, 413-417, 1996.
4. "Dynamics of Contentration Fluctuations in Polymer Solutions with Spatiotemporal correlated Noise," Pui-Man Lam and D. Bagayoko, Phys. Rev. E50, No.1, 437 (1994).
5. "The Dynamics of Student Retention," D. Bagayoko and Ella L. Kelley, Education Vol. 115, No.1, 31-39 (Fall, 1994).
6. "Cognitive Condensation for Mastery Teaching and Learning," D. Bagayoko and E. L. Kelley, Education, Vol. 115, N0. 1, 19-25 (Fall 1994).
7. "A Paradigm of Education: the Model of the Timbuktu Academy," W. E. Moore and D. Bagayoko, Education, Vol. 115, N0. 1, 11-18 (Fall, 1994).
8. "Ward Identities for Surface-Growth Models with Diffusion," Pui-Man Lam and D. Bagayoko, Physical Review E50, 2488 (October, 1994).
9. "Spatiotemporal Correlation of Colored Noise," Pui-Man Lam and D. Bagayoko, Physical Review E48, No. 5, 3267 (November, 1993).
10. A Paradigm for Undergraduate Education: Applications to Engineering Retention, D. Bagayoko and Ella L. Kelley, Proceedings, 1993 NACME Forum, Washington D.C., 6/4/3.
11. "The Maxwell Thermodynamics Equation -- A simplified Aide Memoire," D. Bagayoko, Physics Education, 1992, a journal of the British Institute of Physics (IOP).
12. "Electronic Structure and Related Properties of Silver," by Co-authors and D. Bagayoko, Phys. Rev. B42, 7322, (1990).
13. "Electronic, Magnetic, and Bulk Properties of Nickel," D. Bagayoko and Zelda Y. Gills, Proceedings, National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP), Holmdell, N.J. (1989).
14. "Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Manganese Impurities in Aluminum," D. Bagayoko, N. Brener, D. Kanhere, and J. Callaway, Phys. Rev. B36, 9263 (1987).
15. "Prosperity Through Academic Excellence," G. D'Amour, D. Bagayoko et al. A Working Paper Developed for Louisiana Board of Regents, April (1987).
16. "Electronic Structure of Chromium and Manganese Impurities in Copper," D. Bagayoko, P. Blaha, and J. Callaway, Phys. Rev. B34, 3572 (1986).
17. "On Variational Solutions of the Dirac Equation," D. Bagayoko, C. Dorsey, and N. Brian, Proceedings, NSBP, Washington, D.C. (1985).
18. "Contraction of Gaussian Basis Sets and the Total Energy of FCC Copper," D. Bagayoko, Inter. Jour. Quant. Chem. 17, 527 (1983).
19. "Lattice Parameter Dependence of Ferromagnetism in BCC and FCC Iron," D. Bagayoko and J. Callaway, Phys. Rev. B28, 5419 (1983).
20. Major Software Development: Total energy calculation features of the program package known as BNDPKG, a comprehensive band structure and related property computation package.

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