November 8, 2022
Luther College alumnus, Matthew Benson ’22 has been awarded a postgraduate aesculapian acquisition assistance done the Torrison and Williams Scholarship Program for the 2022-23 world year.
The Dr. George and Emma J. Torrison Scholarship Fund with enactment from the Fredrick W. Williams Scholarship Fund annually awards scholarships to students pursuing careers successful medicine. Endowments are managed by the Foundation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church successful America (ELCA).
Benson studied biology and chemistry portion attending Luther College and is presently attending postgraduate schoolhouse astatine the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. While learning astir assorted aesculapian specialties and networking are Benson’s priorities, helium has semipermanent plans to usage his cognition to service a smaller community.
“At the moment, my extremity is to absorption connected my acquisition successful aesculapian schoolhouse to let myself the accidental to take a specialty successful a fewer years that I truly person a passionateness for. I besides program connected returning to a agrarian assemblage successful the aboriginal to service a tiny municipality wholeheartedly,” said Benson.
Benson says helium hopes to find a specialty helium tin link with connected a idiosyncratic level and says his religion assemblage has helped him instrumentality a measurement guardant successful that direction.
“I americium precise thankful to person received this scholarship. My religion has profoundly influenced my beingness and guided maine to wherever I americium today. It means a batch to maine that the ELCA and my religion assemblage person fixed maine specified a generous assistance that helps maine proceed to prosecute my vocation aspirations,” said Benson
After completing respective job-shadowing experiences, Benson has recovered involvement successful household medicine and wide surgery. While helium is keeping his options open, these specialties are a fewer helium volition beryllium looking into arsenic helium furthers his career.
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