Let's send up a great big whoop and a holler for Ricardo Cisneros of Fresno, who will be the first Ph.D. candidate to graduate from UC Merced.
Cisneros will be awarded his doctorate Friday at the university's third commencement ceremony. He represents many of the goals visionaries hoped for when they started dreaming of a Valley UC campus years ago. He lives in the Valley and his research is focused on improving the life and health of Valley residents. (He studies air pollution in the Valley and the surrounding mountains.) We hope other Valley students will be inspired by his accomplishment and follow the trail he is blazing. He's not stopping now, by the way, he plans to keep up his research. Read more about him and see his picture by clicking here.
Congratulations, almost-a-Dr. Cisneros.
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