{"id":36064,"date":"2021-03-31T09:26:01","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T13:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=36064"},"modified":"2021-03-31T09:26:01","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T13:26:01","slug":"grad-student-chosen-for-five-year-fellowship-from-national-science-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2021\/03\/grad-student-chosen-for-five-year-fellowship-from-national-science-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Grad student chosen for five-year fellowship from National Science Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_36072\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"880\" height=\"1050\" data-attachment-id=\"36072\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2021\/03\/grad-student-chosen-for-five-year-fellowship-from-national-science-foundation\/wiegand1-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/03\/wiegand1.png\" data-orig-size=\"880,1050\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"wiegand1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/03\/wiegand1-858x1024.png\" class=\"wp-image-36072\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/03\/wiegand1.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/03\/wiegand1.png 880w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/03\/wiegand1-251x300.png 251w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/03\/wiegand1-858x1024.png 858w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/03\/wiegand1-768x916.png 768w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/03\/wiegand1-580x692.png 580w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/03\/wiegand1-610x728.png 610w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/03\/wiegand1-168x200.png 168w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/03\/wiegand1-335x400.png 335w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas Wiegand is pursuing a master&#8217;s in environmental science.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Thomas Wiegand had plenty of academic highlights during his undergraduate days at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.<\/p>\n<p>He attended and presented at the World Congress on Undergraduate Research in Germany. He spent the better part of two years conducting \u201cprobably the most comprehensive review of plant rarity research that has ever been done,\u201d he said, completing his departmental honors thesis with that work.<\/p>\n<p>But just a few months into his pursuit of a master\u2019s in environmental science<strong>,<\/strong> he has been honored in a way that has him using words like \u201csurreal,\u201d \u201cjarring\u201d and \u201cinsane.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wiegand, a graduate student in the UTC Department of Biology, Geology and Environmental Science, has been awarded a prestigious five-year fellowship by the National Science Foundation (NSF).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is so surreal. I really am still processing it,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s such a high honor for students in my position, and it\u2019s well-respected in the science community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The NSF\u2019s Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) disciplines and pursuing research-based master\u2019s and doctoral degrees at accredited U.S. institutions. The fellowship includes three years of financial support, including an annual stipend of $34,000, and a cost of education allowance of $12,000 to the institution.<\/p>\n<p>Past winners of the fellowship program include numerous Nobel Prize winners, former U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, Google co-founder Sergey Brin and <em>Freakonomics<\/em> co-author Steven Levitt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI honestly can\u2019t imagine something that could have happened to me that would be so jarring as this,\u201d Wiegand said.<\/p>\n<p>His research uses network analysis, a computer modeling technique, to develop a synthesis of all past research pertaining to plant rarity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know that we put in a lot of effort and time and resources into the application and in my undergraduate work in science and outside of science to prepare for something like this, but it\u2019s still insane to receive it. And to know that you were chosen among all these other applicants,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He is the second UTC student in three years to win the NSF fellowship, joining 2019 chemical engineering student Olivia George, who is now in the master\u2019s program at Georgia Institute of Technology.<\/p>\n<p>This semester, he is a graduate research assistant in Professor Jennifer Boyd\u2019s environmental science lab. He started working on his master\u2019s in January after receiving bachelor\u2019s degrees in both environmental science and French language and culture in December 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018When I finish my master\u2019s here at UTC, I can pursue a Ph.D. anywhere, which is the amazing thing about it, and they will fund me through that process,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Boyd knew Wiegand before he came to UTC, meeting the Knoxville native while interviewing students for the University Honors College.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember talking with Thomas, and he stood out to me because he was planning to major in environmental science,\u201d Boyd recalled. \u201cWhen he answered questions, he had that idealism that we love to see in new students. But he also had it tempered with this dose of reality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo he had this realistic grounding that I just thought was mature for his age. I told him during that interview that, if he came to UTC, he should come and see me and get involved in research in my lab group. And so he did come and see me. So to see him work so hard and to get this fellowship has been super rewarding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wiegand said his career goal is to continue in academic research, but he also wants to be involved in conservation work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlant rarity is such a good niche for me within ecology and within environmental science because it has to do every day with academic research in a laboratory in the field, theoretical work, computer modeling,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut at the same time, there\u2019s a lot of conservation implications because we\u2019re working with species that are threatened or federally endangered to be threatened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of people don\u2019t understand the importance of conservation. So I\u2019d like to see myself in 20 years at a point where I\u2019m doing academic research but also having a hand in conservation work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Wiegand describes his selection as \u201csurreal,\u201d \u201cjarring\u201d and \u201cinsane.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><span><a class=\"more-link button text\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2021\/03\/grad-student-chosen-for-five-year-fellowship-from-national-science-foundation\/\"><span>Continue Reading <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1493,"featured_media":36070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_slider":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_featurette":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123865,61,3,8244,64,48007,661],"tags":[83592,89311],"class_list":{"0":"post-36064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-biology-geology-and-environmental-science","8":"category-college-of-arts-sciences","9":"category-community","10":"category-honors-and-awards","11":"category-news","12":"category-research-academics","13":"category-students","14":"tag-national-science-foundation","15":"tag-thomas-wiegand","16":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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