Graduate student Julie Fleischman and recent graduate Cate Bird (PhD, 2013) were awarded Student Travel Grants by the Forensic Sciences Foundation. Travel grants are awarded to assist with travel expenses in attending the American Academy of Forensic Sciences Annual Meeting. Both students received their grants to travel to and present at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences in Washington, DC in February 2013. Cate Bird’s presentation was entitled, “Skeletal Trauma in the Tuskulenai Case: A Comparison of State-Sponsored Violence in the Former Soviet Union.” Julie Fleischman’s presentation was entitled, “Down to the Wire: Radiographic Positive Identification Using Midline Sternotomy Wires” and was co-authored by Dr. Todd Fenton.