Sylvia Wiegand
Sylvia Margaret Wiegand (born March 8, 1945) is an American mathematician. Early life and education Wiegand was born in Cape Town, South Africa. She is the daughter of mathematician Laurence Chisholm Young and through him the grand-daughter of mathematicians Grace Chisholm Young and William Henry Young. Her family moved to Wisconsin in 1949, and she graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1966 after three years of study. In 1971 Wiegand earned her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her dissertation was titled Galois Theory of Essential Expansions of Modules and Vanishing Tensor Powers. Career In 1987, she was named full professor at the University of Nebraska; at the time Wiegand was the only female professor in the department. In 1988 Sylvia headed a search committee for two new jobs in the math department, for which two women were hired, although one stayed only a year and another left after four years. In 1996 Sylvia and her husband, Roger Wiegand, established a fellowship for graduate student research at the university in honor of Sylvia's grandparents. From 1997 until 2000, Wiegand was president of the Association for Women in Mathematics. Wiegand has been an editor for Communications in Algebra and the Rocky