Pallavi Tiwari, a 4th year BME/LCIB PhD student has been awarded a travel award by SciWomen, the office for the promotion of Women in Science, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). The travel awards were given to five female graduate students in STEM. The award will help partially defray part of the costs of Pallavi`s travel to the prostate cancer imaging workshop which she attended in Toronto in September 2011 to present her paper entitled "Weighted Combination of multi-parametric MRI for Evaluating Radiation Therapy Changes in the prostate". Pallavi is advised by Professor Anant Madabhushi.