A 2-year $100,000 NSF Grant entitled �Transactions between Granular Flow and Solidification: Merging Multiphase Transport with Statistical Mechanics� was awarded to Professor Troy Shinbrot. In these studies Professor Shinbrot aims to focus on the interface between solid-like and fluid-like coexisting regions with the ultimate goal of producing an experimentally validated, quantitative, first principles model that spans the solidified-fluidized interface of granular beds. The data that the proposed work will provide will be of direct benefit for the predictive design of pharmaceutical formulation processes.