Laura M. Bartolo's Vita


Professor and Director
Center for Materials Informatics
036 Science Research Building
College of Arts and Sciences
Kent State University
Kent, Ohio, 44242-0001 USA

Voice: 330.672.1691
Fax: 330.672.293816
E-mail: lbartolo@kent.edu
Web Page: http://www.kent.edu/CAS/cmi/people/bartolo

   

Brief Vita:

Academic Appointments

2008 – Present       Professor and Director, Center for Materials Informatics, College of Arts & Sciences, Kent State University
2005 – Present       Professor, Materials Informatics Lab, College of Arts & Sciences, Kent State University
2001 – 2005           Associate Professor, College of Arts & Sciences, Kent State University
1998 – 2001           Associate Professor, Libraries & Media Services, Kent State University
1996 – 2002           Senior Research Investigator, Center for Advanced Liquid Crystalline Optical Materials
1992 – 1998           Assistant Professor, Libraries & Media Services, Kent State University


Education

M.I.L.S. 1979       School of Information and Library Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo
B.A. 1973            John Carroll University

 

Selected Awards and Grants

Sept 2008 – Aug 2011    NSF                 Collaborative Research: Recurring Patterns in Molecular Science: Reusable 
                                                                Learning Resources Co-PI: L.M. Bartolo.
Sept 2008 – Feb 2010    NSF                 Open Efforts for Computational Materials Research & Education: A NSDL
                                                                MatDL & TMS Pilot Working Together with the Materials Community PI: L.M. Bartolo.
Jan  2007 – June 2008   NSF                 Collaborative Research: Interdisciplinary Virtual Labs for Undergraduate Education
                                                                in the NSDL MatDL Co-PI: L.M. Bartolo.
Sept 2005 – Aug 2009    NSF                 NSDL Materials Digital Library Pathway PI: L.M. Bartolo.
July  2004 – July 2005    NSF                 Materials Digital Library Supplement Funding Request PI: L.M. Bartolo.
Sept 2003 – Aug 2005    NSF                 Materials Digital Library: MatDL.org PI: L.M. Bartolo.
June 2003 – July 2004    NIST                 An MSEL Materials Repository PI: L.M. Bartolo.
Sept 2001 – Aug 2003    NSF                  Green’s Functions Research & Education Enhancement Network Co-PI: L.M. Bartolo.
Jan 2002 – Dec 2003      NIST                 Information Management and Multidisciplinary Scientific Working Groups
                                                                  PI: L.M. Bartolo.
Jan 2001 – Jan 2002      Ohio Dept of      Center for Advanced Liquid Crystalline Optical Materials Co-PI: L.M. Bartolo
                                        Development     (One of 30 PIs).
Jan 2000 – Jan 2001      OBR                   Research Challenge A Model for Sharing Multidisciplinary Scientific Research
                                                                  Co-PI: L.M. Bartolo.
Jan 1998 – Dec 1999      OBR                  Research Challenge Information Gateway for Storage, Transfer, and Utility of
                                                                  Scientific Information PI: L.M. Bartolo.
Oct 1999                          NIST                 Development of Green’s Functions Library-Generation 2 for Advanced Materials
                                                                  and Collaboration PI: L.M. Bartolo.
1996 – 2000                     NIST                 Information Dynamics in the ALCOM/NIST Phase Separation/Heterogeneous
                                                                  Structures Project PI: L.M. Bartolo.
Sept 1998 – Aug 2000     NSF                  School Based Remote Experiments on the Web Co-PI: L.M. Bartolo.
Sept 1994 – Aug 1997     NSF                  Science and Math on the Net Co-PI: L.M. Bartolo.


Teaching

  • A&S 4/5/70095, BSCI 4/5/70195 & CS 4/5/79995 Introduction to Bioinformatics
  • A&S 4/5/70095, LSCI Law across the Disciplines

 

Primary Research Interests

Scientific Materials research and learning information management and dissemination, Multidisciplinary scientific research repositories, Human and automated scientific metadata generation, Scientific information classification and thesaurus, Electronic scientific communication.

 

Selected Publications

  • Bartolo, L.M., Osman, T.M., Hunt, W.H. (2009). Open Efforts for Computational Materials Research & Education: A NSDL MatDL & TMS Pilot with the Materials Community. Journal of Materials Education (in press).
  • Bartolo, L.M., Glotzer, S.C., Lowe, C.S., Powell, A.C., Sadoway, D.R., Warren, DJ, Teary, V, Kane, NJ and Raja, AK. (2008). Materials informatics: Facilitating the integration of data-driven materials research with education. Journal of the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, 60(3), 51-52. Available at DOI: 10.1007/s11837-008-0033-z
  • Yaron, D.J., Davenport, J.L., Karabinos, M., Leinhardt, G.L., Bartolo, L.M., Portman,J.J., Lowe, C.S., Sadoway, D.R., Carter, W.C., and Ashe, C. (2008). Cross-Disciplinary molecular science education in introductory science courses: An NSDL MatDL collection. Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, (pp. 70-73). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. (ACM).
    Available at: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1378889.1378903
  • Bartolo, L.M., Lowe, C.S., Krafft, D.B., & Tandy, R.J. (2007). NSDL MatDL: Adding context to bridge materials e-research and e-education. In L. Vovacs, N. Fuhr, and C. Meghini (Eds.), Proceeding of the 11th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL) (pp. 499-500). Springer-Verlag.
  • Bartolo, L.M., Lowe, C.S., Ruscheinski, J., & Bisom, D. (2007). Cooperative collection building in NSDL MatDL Pathway through Ivia Data Fountains. Proceedings of the 7th ACM>IEEE-CS Joint Conferences on Digital Libraries, (p. 473). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. (ACM).
  • Bartolo, L.M., Krane, M.J.M., & Powell, A.C. (2007) NSDL Materials Digital Library Pathway, Transport Phenomena, & TMS Partnership. Spotlight article published on Materials Technology & TMS Education Community: Front Page.
    Available at http://materialstechnology.tms.org/TECarticle.asp?articleID=905
  • Bartolo, L.M., Lowe, C.S. (2006). NSDL Materials Digital Library Pathway: Hub for materials education and research. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 69th Annual Meeting. Austin, TX USA.
  • Bartolo, L.M., & Lowe, C.S., Glotzer, S.C., Iacovella, C.R. (2006) Development of a wiki-based, expert community-driven nanosystem vocabulary. Proceedings of the Dublin Core Conference Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico.
  • Bartolo, L.M., & Lowe, C.S., Glotzer, S.C., Iacovella, C.R. (2006) Scientific research groups, digital libraries, & education: Metadata from nanoscale simulation code. Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (p. 348). Chapel Hill, NC USA. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. (ACM)
  • Powell, A.C., & Bartolo, L.M. (2006) The Transport Phenomena Archive on the NSDL Materials Digital Library Pathway. Journal of Materials Education Vol. 28 (1): 91-98.
  • Bartolo, L.M., Gloter, S.C., Lowe, C.S., Powell, A.C., Sadoway, D.R., Warren, J.A., Tewary, V.K., & Rajan, K. (2006). NSF NSDL Materials Digital Library & MSE education. Journal of Materials Education Vol. 28 (1): 21-26.
  • Bartolo, L.M., Cole, T.W., Giersch, S., & Wright, M. (2005). NSF/NSDL Workshop on Scientific Markup Languages. D-Lib Magazine, Vol 11(11) Available: doi:10.1045/november2005-bartolo
  • Bartolo, L.M., Lowe, C.S. Sadoway, D.R., Powell, A.C., & Glotzer, S.C. (2005). NSDL MatDL: Exploring digital library roles. D-Lib Magazine, Vol 11(3)
    Available at: www.dlib.org/dlib/march05/bartolo/03bartolo.html
  • Bartolo, L.M., Lowe, C.S., Feng, L.Z., & Patter, B. (2004). MatDL: Integrating digital libraries into scientific practice. Journal of Digital Information: Special Issue Digital Repositories, Vol. 5 issue 3 Article 297 2004-08-23.
    Available at: http://journals.tdl.org/jodi/article/view/jodi-151/121

 

Selected Presentations

  • Bartolo, L.M. (2009, February). Co-organizer of Symposium on Progress in Computational Materials Science and Engineering Education. Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA USA.
  • Bartolo, L.M. (2009, February). NSDL MatDL’s MatForge: Open Efforts for Computational Materials Research and Education. Presented as part of the Symposium on Open Source Tools for Materials Research and Engineering. Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA USA.
  • Bartolo, L.M. (August 2008). Improving student learning using the World Wide Web. PI led workshop session at the Conference of the Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) Program, Washington, DC USA. (invited presentation)
  • Bartolo, L.M. (2007, November) Co-organizer of Symposium W, Forum on Materials Science and Engineering Education for 2020. Materials Research Society Annual Meeting, Boston, MA USA.
  • Bartolo, L.M. (2006, October). Materials Research Groups, Digital Libraries, & Education: Metadata from Nanoscale Simulation Code. Presented at the 20th International CODATA Conference. Beijing, China.
  • Bartolo, L.M. (2006, August) Presented as part of an NSF sponsored workshop entitled From Cyberinfrastructure to Cyberdiscovery in Materials Science: Enhancing outcomes in materials research, education and outreach, Arlington, VA USA.
  • Bartolo, L.M. (2006, October). Materials Research Groups, Digital Libraries, & Education: Metadata from Nanoscale Simulation Code. Presented at the 20th International CODATA Conference. Beijing, China.
  • Bartolo, L.M, (2006, October). Facilitating Connections between Materials Research and Education. Presented as part of the Workshop on Material Data/Metadata Markup - Integration and Syndication of Material Databases (Co-Chairs: Laura Bartolo & Toshihiro Ashino) at the 20th International CODATA Conference. Beijing, China.
  • Bartolo, L.M., Lowe, C.S., Glotzer, S.C., & Iacovella, C.R. (2006, October). Building Collaborative Tools on the NSDL Data Repository: Possibilities with the MatDL Soft Matter Wiki. Presented as part of a panel at the National Science Digital Library Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. USA.

 

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