Family has three generations attending college at the same time, youngest working toward career in imaging

Michael Walter | | Health Imaging | Cardiac Imaging

Three generations of the same family are attending Southern Illinois University Carbondale at the same time, and one of them is training to work in medical imaging.

A post on the Southern Illinois University website reported that Marian Smith, her daughter (Arianne Smith), and her granddaughter (Cierra Smith) are all currently full-time students at the university.

Cierra Smith explained that she was impressed by the school’s four-year radiologic sciences program and she wants to be a radiology technologist once she graduates.

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Three generations of Smiths pursuing dreams at SIU

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