Michigan State University undergraduate named Truman Scholar
Gregory Marchal has been named Michigan State University’s 17th Truman Scholar. He is one of 62 students from 51 U.S. colleges and universities selected as scholars.
Marchal is an Honors College junior majoring in economics with a minor in social science quantitative data analytics in the College of Social Science and a minor in political economy in James Madison College. He is a member of the Econ Scholars Program and a STARR Scholar. Marchal is from Green River, Wyoming, and a graduate of Green River High School.
He currently serves as a research assistant to Mariah Ehmke, associate professor of agricultural and applied economics, at the University of Wyoming on a project that focuses on building an economic model to understand parent’s vaccination decisions. Prior to this, Marchal was a research assistant to Lisa Cook, professor of economics in the College of Social Science and international relations in James