Associate Professor Andrew Wickert named 2024 Marguerite T. Williams Award recipient
Andy Wickert is the 2024 recipient of the Marguerite T. Williams Award. This award is presented annually to recognize significant contributions to research and community-building by a mid-career scientist in the field of earth and planetary surface processes. Wickert’s research focuses on reconstructing the past, measuring the present, and predicting the future of rivers and landscapes. His group does this through a combination of physics-based theory and modeling; instrument design and fabrication; data collection; and field exploration to build out and understand data sets with the goal of telling a stories of place, past, present, and future.
More about the Marguerite T. Williams Award
Dr. Williams was a black woman who, by receiving her PhD in Geology in 1942, pioneered to broaden participation in STEM. Dr. Williams was already mid-career when she returned to school to earn higher degrees in geology, finishing her PhD in 1942 at the age of 47. Dr. Williams devoted her career to teaching, and she faced and overcame immeasurable barriers in her education and career, underscoring the enormity of her accomplishments.