/ Medal Content for 69³ÉÈË en /news/uc-davis-student-takes-fathers-lesson-to-heart-named-top-graduate <p>University of California, Davis, student Lucydalila Cedillo grew up in East Los Angeles in a home without books, collected recyclable cans with her mother to help support the household and didn’t know anyone who had gone to college. But on morning rides to middle school, she took to heart what her father told her about the importance of learning.</p> June 09, 2016 - 12:11pm Julia Ann Easley /news/uc-davis-student-takes-fathers-lesson-to-heart-named-top-graduate