About Marion Le Gall

Awards

• 2023 – Professor of Impact Award, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University. This award is given by a student to recognize an outstanding professor.

• 2015 – 3rd place, Annual Postdoc Research Exhibition (31 competitors), The Pennsylvania State University. The Annual Postdoc Research exhibition is a university-wide event held by The Office of Postdoctoral Affairs and the Penn State Postdoc Society. It is judged by postdocs, administrators, and faculty.

• 2014 – Outstanding graduate student award, Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University. This award is given annually for outstanding service and research.

• 2013 – 3rd place, Graduate Student forum (12 competitors), Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University. Participants are given 12 minutes to present their research presentation and 3 minutes to facilitate questions from the audience. The top three presentations are given a certificate and cash prize.

• 2013 – 1st place, Ecological Integration Symposium (41 competitors), Texas A&M University. Texas A&M University’s Ecological Integration Symposium (EIS) is an annual interdisciplinary event that brings together a diverse group of leading scientists and students from the fields of ecology, evolutionary biology, and conservation. As the culmination of Student Research Week, EIS draws more than 500 people annually from the local and regional communities of academics, practitioners and the public.

• 2012 – 1st place, Graduate Student forum (17 competitors), Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University. Participants are given 12 minutes to present their research presentation and 3 minutes to facilitate questions from the audience. The top three presentations are given a certificate and cash prize.

• 2011 – 3rd place, Graduate Student forum (14 competitors), Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University. Participants are given 12 minutes to present their research presentation and 3 minutes to facilitate questions from the audience. The top three presentations are given a certificate and cash prize.

• 2011 – 1st place, Arthropods Image Salon, Artistic category, “Furry grasshopper”, Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University. 

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Scholarships

2013 – Applied Biodiversity Science NSF-IGERT Program, Study Abroad Scholarship, $1,500, Texas A&M; a scholarship given for participating in Amazon Field School in the lowland forests of southeastern Peru

This unique course introduces students to the social and biological realities of conservation and research in Latin America. Students have firsthand investigation into key resource management systems and apply conservation research techniques. Students complete case studies of important resources found in lowland tropical forests of southeastern Peru. Students interact with a mix of native peoples, colonists, conservation organizations, loggers, gold miners, and eco-tourism experts.

2012 – Knipling-Bushland-SWAHRF Graduate Student Scholarship, $10,000, Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University

The scholarship is dedicated to strengthening research, extension, and instructional programs conducted by a full-time graduate student in good standing pursuing a doctoral degree through the Department of Entomology in the area of livestock and wildlife entomology.

2012 – Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Student Travel Fellowships, $700, Texas A&M; a travel grant award given for presenting at the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting in Portland

2011 – J.H. Benedict, Sr. Memorial Graduate Student Scholarship, $5,000, Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University

The scholarship is established for graduate students enrolled in the Department of Entomology at TAMU. Recipients must be of good standing with the Department and the University.

2007 – Bourse sur critères universitaires, €4052, Academy of Orléans and Tours, France; a governmental scholarship reserved for the most deserving Master students of the region

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Grants

2015 – (co-PI John Tooker) Partnership grant, $12,714, Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education (USDA), a research grant given to conduct research on farms with farmers as active cooperators.

2012 – EcoLab Research Grant, Texas EcoLab, $800, Braun & Associates, Austin, Texas; a research award given for a proposal to research plant chemistry and its effect on the growth processes of generalist grasshoppers in Texas rangelands

2011 – Orthopterists' Society Research Grant, $1,000, The Orthopterists' Society, a research award given for a proposal to research the physiological consequences of nutrient-allelochemical interactions in a generalist grasshopper

2011 – EcoLab Research Grant, $6,477, Texas EcoLab, Braun & Associates, Austin, Texas; a research award given for a proposal to research grasshopper nutrition, particularly the growth processes of different grasshoppers in Texas rangelands