Anna Marie Quider is an American astronomer and science lobbyist. Formerly the Assistant Vice President for Federal Relations at Northern Illinois University, she remains affiliated with Northern Illinois University as a senior research fellow, and heads the consulting firm The Quider Group. She also chairs the Forum on Physics and Society of the American Physical Society. [1]
Quider is from Buffalo, New York, where her father was a local politician and her mother taught special education. She went to Grand Island Senior High School (New York) [2] and was an undergraduate at the University of Pittsburgh, graduating in 2007 with a double major in religious studies and history and philosophy of science. [3] As an undergraduate, she was the inaugural recipient of the Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award of the American Astronomical Society. [4] She earned a Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Cambridge, as a Marshall Scholar there. [1] [5] Her dissertation, High redshift star-forming galaxies in absorption and emission, was supervised by Max Pettini. [6]
She writes that "About halfway through [graduate school] I realized I didn’t want the traditional academic career". Instead, she became an American Physical Society Congressional Science Fellow, working with Missouri representative Russ Carnahan. [7] She became federal relations director at Northern Illinois University in 2014. [5]
Quider was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2021, after a nomination from the APS Forum on Physics and Society, "for stellar leadership in science policy and advocacy, and for promoting and mentoring early-career physicists". [8]
In 2022, the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities gave her their Jennifer Poulakidas Outstanding Achievement Award, and the National Institute for Lobbying & Ethics named her as one of 100 Top Lobbyists for the year. [5]
In physics, a redshift is an increase in the wavelength, and corresponding decrease in the frequency and photon energy, of electromagnetic radiation. The opposite change, a decrease in wavelength and increase in frequency and energy, is known as a blueshift, or negative redshift. The terms derive from the colours red and blue which form the extremes of the visible light spectrum. The main causes of electromagnetic redshift in astronomy and cosmology are the relative motions of radiation sources, which give rise to the relativistic Doppler effect, and gravitational potentials, which gravitationally redshift escaping radiation. All sufficiently distant light sources show cosmological redshift corresponding to recession speeds proportional to their distances from Earth, a fact known as Hubble's law that implies the universe is expanding.
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