Rate My Professor Darya Dolenko

Darya Dolenko, PhD, serves as the Manager of the Physics Instructional Resource Team (PIRT) and Instructional Professional in the Department of Physics at Arizona State University, Tempe campus. Her office is located in PSH 359B, with contact details including phone 480-727-8398. As head of PIRT, she oversees the creation of all demonstrations and experiments utilized in undergraduate physics laboratory courses, lectures, and outreach projects. PIRT maintains a comprehensive physics demonstration catalog, searchable by keywords or PIRA numbers, covering categories such as mechanics, motion in one and two dimensions, Newton's laws, energy, momentum, rotation, oscillations, waves, fluids, thermodynamics, electricity and magnetism, optics, modern physics, astronomy, chaos, and nuclear physics. The team provides instructional resources, pedagogy information, lab safety guidelines, and general support for physics labs, operating Monday through Friday from 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM in the Bateman Physical Sciences Center H Wing, Room 351. PIRT's mission is to empower students with positive experiences in verifying scientific ideas through experimentation, ensuring high-quality guidance through physics topics.