Rachel Sparks, a 4th year LCIB, BME graduate student has been awarded a competitive $500 travel grant from the MICCAI society. Rachel will be using the award to offset travel costs for her visit to Beijing, China in September 2010, where she will be presenting her paper entitled "Novel Morphometric Based Classification via Diffeomorphic Based Shape Representation usingManifold Learning". Rachel is mentored by Professor Madabhushi.