HANCOCK, Mich. (WJMN) – Four U.P. aesculapian students person been announced arsenic the recipients of the archetypal tuition assistance assistance from Portage Health Foundation. The assistance was created successful enactment of Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, UP Campus students.
Dominique Aleo from Baraga County; John Berglund from Ontonagon County; Noelle Polakowski from Houghton County; and Lucas Tarvainen from Houghton County are the archetypal to person the scholarship.
Portage Health Foundation published the pursuing merchandise with accusation astir the intent for the assistance and further accusation astir the recipients:
To beryllium considered for the scholarship, aesculapian students indispensable presently beryllium successful their second, 3rd oregon 4th twelvemonth of aesculapian schoolhouse with assignments successful the Upper Peninsula. Medical schoolhouse applicants are encouraged to use if determination is simply a willingness to signifier successful the Upper Peninsula aft residency training. Successful applicants person a tuition assistance assistance for summertime semester. Preference is fixed to aesculapian students from Baraga, Houghton, Keweenaw, and Ontonagon counties. Secondary penchant goes to aesculapian students from the Upper Peninsula, and tertiary penchant goes to aesculapian students who are not from the UP but person intentions to signifier successful the area.
“I americium grateful to the Portage Health Foundation for their imaginativeness and committedness to our UP Campus students,” said Community Assistant Dean of the UP Campus, Dr. Stuart Johnson. “Through their scholarships, the load of indebtedness is reduced, encouraging our students from agrarian and underserved areas to instrumentality and signifier successful these areas. This benefits our students and our UP communities.”
The Portage Health Foundation continues to amusement their committedness of supporting aesculapian students who program to travel backmost to enactment and unrecorded successful the Upper Peninsula. This concern tin assistance summation our wellness attraction workforce, benefiting communities crossed the region.
“PHF is gladsome to beryllium capable to enactment our region’s students who person ventured connected a way to instrumentality location arsenic well-trained and qualified aesculapian professionals,” said Portage Health Foundation Executive Director, Kevin Store. “We’re each incredibly arrogant of each of them and happily observe their achievement. It’s gratifying to beryllium a tiny portion of their journey.”
About our aesculapian pupil recipients:
Dominique Aleo of L’Anse, Michigan, received a Bachelor of Science successful Biology from Michigan Technological University successful Houghton, Michigan.
John Berglund of Bergland, Michigan, received a Bachelor of Science successful Biology and Physiology from Northern Michigan University successful Marquette, Michigan.
Noelle Polakowski of Houghton, Michigan, received a Bachelor of Biomolecular Science from the University of Michigan successful Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Lucas Tarvainen, of Alston, Michigan, received a Bachelor of Science successful Medical Laboratory Science from Michigan Technological University successful Houghton, Michigan.
The caller Portage Health Foundation Tuition Assistance Scholarship volition assistance easiness immoderate of the fiscal load that aesculapian students face. Providing this assistance to students whose extremity is to instrumentality to the Upper Peninsula to practice, volition person a affirmative interaction connected the region. To larn much astir Portage Health Foundation visit https://www.phfgive.org, find them connected Facebook, Instagram oregon Twitter, oregon subscribe to the PHF Podcast wherever you perceive to podcasts. To Learn much astir the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, UP Campus, visit https://www.uphealthsystem.com/marquette/msu-college-of-human-medicine-up-campus, and find america connected Facebook @msuchmupr.
About Michigan State University College of Human Medicine Upper Peninsula Education Corporation
The MSU College of Human Medicine UP Education Corporation works successful conjunction with UP Health System-Marquette to coordinate the grooming of household medicine and psychiatry residents and Michigan State University College of Human Medicine UP Campus aesculapian students. Since its inception successful 1974, 330 aesculapian students and 222 household medicine physicians person graduated from these programs.
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