Academic

Yale 3 Minute Thesis

First Place Winner, 2022 Competition

Talk Entitled: "The Ribosome: Modifiable Machine - A Chemist's Approach"

Yale Scientific Article

Issue 93.3, November 2020, Graduate Profile, Page 34

"Building Polymers and Community" by Jenny Tan and Rayyan Darji

YaleTalk Podcast

With Yale President Salovey; September 17, 2020

"Sustaining Yale's Research Mission During the COVID-19 Pandemic"

Yale Teaching Assistant

CHEM 222L, Fall 2018 (Lab for Organic Chemistry I)
CHEM 175, Spring 2019 (Organic Chemistry for First Year Students II)

Selected Unaltered Anonymous Student Reviews:

"Diondra was a literal angel and nothing could be improved. She was a fair grader, super knowledgeable, extremely helpful and responsive, very kind and approachable, and was so understanding. She was by far the best TA I have had for any class! The entire experience would have been so dierent with another TA, and I am so grateful to have had Diondra."

"Best TA. Ensures that we arent just doing the experiment, but actually understanding it. Takes time to answer all our questions even at 4AM when we would shoot her a last minute email. She makes this entire lab semester manageable and engaging."

"Love her. Very well spoken and informed, challenges us to answer our own questions."