Risa Wechsler named 2022 Physical and Biological Sciences Distinguished Graduate Student Alumna

Each year, UC Santa Cruz’s five academic divisions—Arts, Baskin School of Engineering, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Physical and Biological Sciences—selects one graduate student alumnus/a/i as their Distinguished Graduate Student honoree. The awards ceremony for the 2022 cohort will take place on April 23 of Alumni Weekend. Risa Wechsler has been named UC Santa Cruz’s Physical and Biological Sciences Distinguished Graduate Student Alumna. 

Risa Wechsler (Ph.D. Physics’ 01) has always been interested in the biggest questions of the universe: 

How did the universe form? What is it made of? How did it evolve over the last 13.8 billion years? How did structure form in the universe? 

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