[2] Her family moved to Wisconsin in 1949, and she graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1966 after three years of study.
[3] Her dissertation was titled Galois Theory of Essential Expansions of Modules and Vanishing Tensor Powers.
[6][7] Wiegand has been an editor for Communications in Algebra and the Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics.
[2] Wiegand was an American Mathematical Society (AMS) Council member at large.
[8] Wiegand is featured in the book Notable Women in Mathematics: A Biographical Dictionary, edited by Charlene Morrow and Teri Perl, published in 1998.