Kathleen DeGioia Eastwood (published as DeGioia-Eastwood) is an American astronomer known for her research on the formation and evolution of massive stars, and for her work on undergraduate education in astronomy.
[1] Eastwood graduated magna cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1976, with a bachelor's degree in physics.
[1] Her dissertation, A study of star formation in NGC 6946, was supervised by Gary Grasdalen.
[2] After working as an assistant scientist and instructor in astronomy at the University of Wisconsin from 1983 to 1987, she joined Northern Arizona University as an assistant professor of physics and astronomy in 1988, at the same time beginning her lifelong affiliation with the Lowell Observatory as an adjunct astronomer.
[1] Eastwood was named a Fulbright Scholar in 2006, funding her travel to the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile.