Katherine Rhode earned a Bachelor's degree in Physics at Sonoma State University and then worked as a team member on a number of space telescope missions, first at NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center and then at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. She then returned to school to earn an M.A. in Astronomy at Wesleyan University and a Ph.D. in Astronomy at Yale University, where she was awarded the Dirk Brouwer Memorial Prize for her dissertation research. From 2003 to 2006, she was an NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow with a joint appointment at Wesleyan and Yale. Dr. Rhode joined the faculty at Indiana University (IU) in 2007 and is now an Associate Professor of Astronomy. In 2009, she was awarded an NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant to support her research on the formation of galaxies and their stellar populations. Dr. Rhode and her Ph.D. and undergraduate students at IU study the origin and evolution of galaxies with space- and ground-based telescopes, especially the WIYN 3.5-m Observatory, which is partly owned by IU. Dr. Rhode currently serves on the Board of Directors of the WIYN Observatory and the Maria Mitchell Association.