Bethanie J. H. Stadler is an assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Minnesota. Her group’s mission is the integration of magnetic and optical materials with standard platforms to allow the development of practical devices and systems. This includes an NSF CAREER project for the integration of magnets, magneto-optical garnets waveguides, and nanostructures for magnetophotonic crystals with semiconductor platforms for isolator applications. In magnetics, Stadler is working on nanostructured perpendicular magnetic recording media and also on magnetic nanowires for magnetoelectronics and acoustic sensor applications. She was recently invited to speak at the Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Conference in Sendia Japan in May 2004, the Fall MRS Meeting in Boston, and the Magnetism and Magnetic Materials conference in San Jose in October 2005. Stadler chaired the Fall 2004 Materials Research Society (MRS) Meeting in Boston in November 2004 and has recently been elected as a member of the MRS Board of Directors, 2005-2007. She has funding from NSF, ONR, NASA, the university and industry. Stadler received her BS degree from Case Western Reserve University and her PhD degree from MIT, both in materials science. Prior to joining the University of Minnesota, she was a National Research Council postdoctoral fellow for three years, working in the Optoelectronics Division of the Air Force Rome Laboratory.