EDUCATION

Dartmouth College, A. B. Physics (magna cum laude, with high distinction in major), 1976.

University of Wyoming, Ph.D. Physics, 1982.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1976 -1983, Teaching Assistant and then Research Assistant as student, hired as Research Associate after graduation, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY.
           
Summer 1977, Research Assistant, Kitt Peak National Observatory, Tucson, AZ. 

1983 -1987, Assistant Scientist (Instructor for spring semester 1986), Astronomy Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.

1988 to 1994, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ.

1988 to present, Adjunct Astronomer, Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ.

1989 to present, Director, National Undergraduate Research Observatory.

1989 to 1990, Director, Young Scholars in Astronomy program, Northern Arizona University.

1992 to present, Site Director for NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates program.

1994 to 2001, Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ.

1994 - 1996 summers, served as Site Director for the American Astronomical Society Teacher Resource Agents program in Flagstaff, AZ.

August 1995 - May 1996, Visiting Astronomer, Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ, and Kitt Peak National Observatory, Tucson, AZ.

2001 to present, Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ.

August 2001 to August 2003, Program Director, Education and Special Programs, Division of Astronomical Sciences, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA.

July 2005 to June 2010, Associate Chair, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ.

August to December, 2006, Visiting Professor, Universidad de La Serena, La Serena, Chile.

January to March, 2007, Visiting Astronomer, Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, La Serena, Chile

July 2010 to June 2012, Chair, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ

AWARDS

Dartmouth Senior Fellow, 1975-1976.

Sigma Xi Research Award, University of Wyoming, 1981.

Junior Faculty Award, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Northern Arizona University, 1988.

Fulbright Scholar, 2006

NAU College of Engineering and Natural Sciences Distinguished Professor of the Year, 2008

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

American Astronomical Society

American Association of Physics Teachers

Astronomical Society of the Pacific

International Astronomical Union

Sigma Xi

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

McAlister, H. A. and DeGioia, K. A., "Speckle Interferometric Measurements of Binary Stars. III.", 1979, Astrophysical Journal 228, 493.

DeGioia-Eastwood, K. and Grasdalen, G. L., "The Range of V-R Colors for a Cluster of E and S0 Galaxies as a Function of Redshift", 1980, Astrophysical Journal (Letters) 239, L1.

DeGioia-Eastwood, K., Hackwell, J.A., Grasdalen, G.L., and Gehrz, R.D., "A Correlation Between Infrared Excess and Period for Mira Variables", 1981, Astrophysical Journal (Letters) 245, L75.

DeGioia-Eastwood, K., Grasdalen, G. L., Strom, S. E., and Strom, K. M., "Massive Star Formation in NGC 6946", 1984, Astrophysical Journal 278, 56.

DeGioia-Eastwood, K., "A Model to Determine the Slope of the Initial Mass Function in a Cluster of Young Stars", 1984, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 96, 625.

DeGioia-Eastwood, K., "The Form of the Initial Mass Function in an HII Complex in NGC 6946", 1985, Astrophysical Journal 288, 175.

Massey, P., Garmany, C., Silkey, M., and DeGioia-Eastwood, K., "The Stellar Content of Two OB Associations in the LMC: LH117 (NGC 2122) and LH118", 1989, Astronomical Journal 97, 107.

DeGioia-Eastwood, K., "IRAS Observations and the Stellar Content of HII Regions in the Large Magellanic Cloud", 1992, Astrophysical Journal 397, 542 - 551.

Cudworth, K. M., Martin, S. C., and DeGioia-Eastwood, K., "Proper Motions, Membership, and Photometry of Open Clusters near Eta Carinae", 1993, Astronomical Journal, 105, 1822-1830.

DeGioia-Eastwood, K., *Meyers, R. P., and *Jones, D. P., "Luminosity Functions and Color-Magnitude Diagrams for Three OB Associations in the Large Magellanic Cloud", 1993, Astronomical Journal, 106, 1005.

Massey, P. M., *Lang, C. C., DeGioia-Eastwood, K., and Garmany, C. D., "Massive Stars in the Field and Associations of the Magellanic Clouds: The Upper Mass Limit, the Initial Mass Function, and a Critical Test of Main-Sequence Stellar Evolution Theory", 1995, Astrophysical Journal 438, 188.

Massey, P., *Johnson, K., and DeGioia-Eastwood, K., "The Massive Star Content of the Milky Way: Northern OB Associations", 1995, Astrophysical Journal 454, 151.

Massey, P., *Waterhouse, E., and DeGioia-Eastwood, K. "The Progenitor Masses of Wolf-Rayet Stars and Luminous Blue Variables Determined from Cluster Turn-offs. I. Results from 19 OB Associations in the Magellanic Clouds", 2000, Astronomical Journal, 119, 2214.

DeGioia-Eastwood, K., *Throop, H., *Walker, G., and Cudworth, K., "The Star Formation History of Tr 14 and Tr 16", 2001, Astrophysical Journal, 549, 578.

Massey, P., DeGioia-Eastwood, K., and *Waterhouse, E., "The Progenitor Masses of Wolf-Rayet Stars and Luminous Blue Variables Determined from Cluster Turn-offs. II. Results from 12 Galactic Clusters and OB Associations", 2001, Astronomical Journal, 121, 1050.

A. Clocchiatti, N. Suntzeff, M. Phillips, A. Filippenko, M. Turatto, S. Benetti, E. Cappellaro, H. Spinrad, C. Gouiffes, R. Aviles, R. Covarrubias, K. DeGioia-Eastwood, P. Guhathakurta, M. Hamuy, S. Heathcote, B. Leibundgut, T. Matheson, M. Navarrete, M. Perez, A. Phillips, A. Piemonte, M. Ruiz, C. Smith, C. Sturch, J. Tyson and L. Wells, "The Type Ic SN 1990B in NGC 4568", 2001, Astrophysical Journal, 553, 886.

*Law, David, DeGioia-Eastwood, Kathleen, and *Moore, Kevin, "Empirical Bounds for the Ionizing Fluxes of Wolf-Rayet Stars," 2002, Astrophysical Journal, 565, 1239.

Silva, D. R., Massey, P., DeGioia-Eastwood, K., Henning, P. A., "The Distance and Metallicity of the Newly Discovered, Nearby Irregular Galaxy HIZSS3," 2005, Astrophysical Journal 623, 148.

Massey, P., *Zangari, A. M., Morrell, N. I., Puls, J., DeGioia-Eastwood, K., Bresolin, F. & Kudritzki, R.-P., 2009, “The Physical Properties and Effective Temperature Scale of O-type Stars as a Function of Metallicity. III. More Results from the Magellanic Clouds”, Astrophysical Journal, 692, 618-652.

Remage Evans, Nancy; DeGioia-Eastwood, Kathleen; Gagne, Marc; Townsley, Leisa; Broos, Patrick; Wolk, Scott; Naze, Yael; Corcoran, Michael; Oskinova, Lida; Moffat, Anthony F. J.; Wang, Junfeng; Walborn, Nolan R. The Search for Low-mass Companions of B Stars in the Carina Nebula Cluster Trumpler 16, 2011, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement, Volume 194, 13.

Philip Massey, Nidia I. Morrell, Kathryn F. Neugent, Laura R. Penny, Kathleen DeGioia-Eastwood, and Douglas R. Gies, “Photometric and Spectroscopic Studies of Massive Binaries in the Large Magellanic Cloud. I. Introduction and Orbits for Two Detached Systems: Evidence for a Mass Discrepancy?”, 2012, Astrophysical Journal, Volume 748, 96.

*Indicates undergraduate authors.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

DeGioia-Eastwood, K., "Hands-On Learning at Northern Arizona University and Lowell Observatory: The National Undergraduate Research Observatory, and Research Experiences for Undergraduates", 1996, in Astronomy Education: Current Developments, Future Coordination, ed. J. R. Percy, proceedings of an ASP Symposium held in College Park, MD, 24-25 June 1995 (Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco), pg. 190.

Knappenberger, P. and DeGioia-Eastwood, K., "Reaching Underserved Groups", ibid, pg. 140.

Trasco, J., DeGioia-Eastwood, K., Slavsky, D., and Hemenway, M. K., "The American Astronomical Society's Teacher Resource Agents Program", ibid, pg. 283.

Eastwood, Kathy DeGioia, "Obituary: Jill S. Price, 1957-1996," 1996, Bulletin of American Astronomical Society 28, 1462.

Eastwood, Kathleen DeGioia and Marschall, Laurence 2003, "The National Undergraduate Research Observatory" in The Future of Small Telescopes in the New Millenium. Volume II -- The Telescopes We Use, ed. T. D. Oswalt. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, Volume 288 (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht ), p. 181.

Eastwood, K. DeGioia 2005, "Ensuring the Next Generation of Astrometrists" in Astrometry in the Age of the Next Generation of Large Telescopes, ed. P. K. Seidelmann and A. K. B. Monet.  Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series, Volume 338 (Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco), p. 318.

Morrell, N. I., Massey, P., DeGioia-Eastwood, K., Penny, L. R., Gies, D. R., Tsitkin, Y., and Darnell, E., 2008, "Massive Binaries in the R136 Cluster", proceedings of Massive Stars: Fundamental Parameters and Circumstellar Interactions, in Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica Serie de Conferencias, vol 33, p. 113-115.

INVITED TALKS AND COLLOQUIA

"Star Formation in NGC 6946", Yerkes Observatory, Williams Bay, Wisconsin, 1985

"The Slope of the Initial Mass Function in Unresolved Galaxies", invited talk at Kitt Peak January Workshop, Tucson, Arizona, 1986.

"The Form of the IMF in an HII Complex in NGC 6946", University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1986.

"IRAS Observations and the Stellar Content of HII Regions in the LMC", Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona, 1988.

"The Initial Mass Function of Star Formation", invited talk at meeting of Arizona Association of Physics Teachers, Flagstaff, Arizona, 1988.

"The National Undergraduate Research Observatory", invited talk at meeting of the Pennsylvania Astronomical Research Consortium, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 1989.

"Star Formation in the Magellanic Clouds", invited banquet speech at the Second Annual Iowa Space Grant Conference, Cedar Falls, Iowa, February 1993.

"Stars 'N Stuff: Star Formation in Galaxies", invited public talk at the 105th meeting of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Diego, California, July 1993.

"The National Undergraduate Research Observatory: A Model for Other Collaborations", invited talk at "Astronomy Education in the United States", a session of the 105th meeting of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Diego, California, July 1993.

"The National Undergraduate Research Observatory: A Model for Collaborative Undergraduate Research", invited talk at the national summer meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers, Boise, Idaho, August, 1993.

"The Big Guys on the Block: Forming Massive Stars in Galaxies", invited public talk at the 105th meeting of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Flagstaff, Arizona, June 1994.

"NURO and the Initial Mass Function of Massive Star Formation", University of Michigan at Dearborn, Dearborn, Michigan, November 1995.

"The Initial Mass Function of Massive Star Formation in the Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds", Ruhr University of Bochum, Federal Republic of Germany, December 1995.

"The National Undergraduate Research Observatory", Ruhr University of Bochum, Federal Republic of Germany, December 1995.

"The Initial Mass Function of Massive Star Formation in the Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds", University of Bonn, Federal Republic of Germany, December 1995.

"The Star Formation History of Trumpler 14 and 16", Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona, May 1996.

"The National Undergraduate Research Observatory: A Successful Model for Training Undergraduates", invited talk at meeting entitled The Role of Small Telescopes in Modern Astronomy, October 14-15, 1996, Flagstaff, Arizona.

Panel speaker in special session hosted by the Committee on the Status of Minorities in Astronomy entitled "The Role of Minority Serving Institutions and REU Programs for Enhancing Diversity in Astronomy" at the 201 st meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Seattle , WA , January 2003. Moderated by K. Stassun.

Panel speaker in special session hosted by the AAS Employment Committee on "Grant Writing: Best Practices for Successful Proposals" at the 203 rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Atlanta , GA , January 2004.

"Ensuring the Next Generation of Astrometrists", invited talk at meeting entitled Astrometry in the Age of the Next Generation of Large Telescopes , 18 - 20 October 2004, Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff , AZ , USA .

"Taking it to the Extreme: Finding the Masses of the Highest Mass Stars", Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, November 3, 2009, Prescott, AZ.