Alumni Luncehon with Dr. Anna Quider

October 20, 2016 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

A luncheon for undergraduate and graduate students to talk with Alumna Dr. Anna Quider. 

Bio: Dr. Anna Quider is the Director of Federal Relations for Northern Illinois University in Washington, DC. She earned BS (2007, Physics and Astronomy) and BA (2007, History and Philosophy of Science, Religious Studies) degrees from the University of Pittsburgh. She received the prestigious Marshall Scholarship to study at the University of Cambridge in the UK, where she received her PhD degree (2011, Astronomy). As a scientist, she was Principal Investigator on a Hubble Space Telescope observing program and her scientific journal articles (many co-authored with Profs. Sandhya Rao and Dave Turnshek) have been cited over 500 times.  She currently serves on the Executive Committee of the APS Forum on Physics and Society, and she has served as an APS Congressional Science Fellow in the US Congress, an Innovation Program Manager at the US Department of State, and as Ms. Frizzle at the USA Science and Engineering Festival.

Location and Address

Where: O'Hara Student Center, Ballroom 

When: October 20th, 12:00pm