May 11, 2009
For Immediate Release

RCCC Holds Radiography Pinning Ceremony

              SALISBURY, N.C. — Seventeen students who will graduate from Rowan-Cabarrus Community College later this month with an associate degree in radiography participated in a May 8 pinning ceremony.

               Ceremony guests included family and friends, college faculty and staff, and technologists from clinical partners including CMC NorthEast Medical Center, Rowan Regional Medical Center, and the W.G. (Bill) Hefner VA Medical Center. Radiologists from Rowan Regional and CMC NorthEast jointly provided the pins for the graduates.

               Receiving pins at the North Campus ceremony were: Wateree Allen, David Benson, Angela Bost, Amanda Boykin, Jason Camp, Veronica Dysart, Linda Ervin, Charles Faletti, Lynnette Gearing, Michael Joyner, Melissa Key, Michael Maldima, Samantha Moir, Chelsea Moore, Christina O'Leary, Nicole Singleton, and Brittany Wingler.

               Upon completion of their degree, the graduates will be eligible to take the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT) certification examination for radiography. An ARRT certification allows one to perform medical imaging routines including surgery, trauma and fluoroscopic exams. ARRT certification also provides a career pathway to advanced certifications such as CT, MRI, PET, SPECT, sonography, cardiovascular angiography, mammography, bone densitometry, and quality management.

              RCCC's Radiography Program prepares students to be radiographers, skilled health care professionals who use radiation and highly technical medical equipment to produce images of the human body. Program course work includes clinical rotations to area health care facilities, radiographic exposure, image processing, radiographic procedures, physics, radiobiology and radiation protection, patient care, quality assurance, and anatomy and physiology. Graduates may be employed in hospitals, clinics and imaging centers, physicians' offices, medical laboratories, government agencies and industrial facilities.

               RCCC is a comprehensive, community-based institution of higher learning, serving the citizens of Rowan and Cabarrus counties in North Carolina. RCCC is one of 58 colleges in the state-supported North Carolina Community College System.

                RCCC offers fully-accredited associate-degree programs in more than 40 areas of study, including arts and sciences, business, information technology, health and public services, and engineering technologies. RCCC also offers accredited diploma and certificate programs focused on career training, continuing education and basic skills education. RCCC provides a strong foundation and transferable credits for students moving on to four-year colleges and universities and helps adults get the additional training they need to start new careers.

               RCCC annually provides more than 2,000 course offerings, serving an overall enrollment of approximately 20,000 students. In addition, RCCC provides the education and job-training programs needed to meet many of the workforce demands of the North Carolina Research Campus being developed in Kannapolis. For complete details, see the RCCC website at www.rowancabarrus.edu.