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Richard Cardenas is Chair of the Department of Physics and Earth Science and Associate Professor of Physics at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. Cardenas established the Fiesta of Physics Program, which has provided science education outreach to more than 15,000 low-income, minority families in San Antonio.