Sonia Modarres Razavi, a doctoral candidate (Advisor: A. M. Cuitiño) won the 2016 New Jersey Pharmaceutical Association for Science and Technology (NJPhast) graduate scholarship in recognition to her poster: "Toward predicting tensile strength of pharmaceutical tablets by ultrasound measurement in continuous manufacturing". These awards are being given to recognize excellence in graduate research in the fields of pharmaceutical science and pharmaceutical technology. Scholarships are awarded for the submissions which, in the judgment of NJPhAST, are the most original, of the greatest scientific importance and of the highest quality.