In addition to its primary research goal, the Sonderegger Research Center has an interest in facilitating educational opportunities for pharmacy students and graduates. To this end SRC has undertaken educational activities in the School of Pharmacy as well as nationally. Within the School of Pharmacy, the Sonderegger Research Center coordinates a research seminar for faculty and students in which research proposals and findings are presented to promote research skills and set research agendas. The Sonderegger Research Center also promotes the refinement of research skills through involvement of graduate students as research assistants on its research grants. SRC is pleased to facilitate the submission of research proposals by Pharmacy Social and Administrative Studies graduate students both to encourage and refine grant submission and writing skills of a very talented group of young Social and Administrative Pharmacy researchers. It is our belief that these young investigators are a critical resource for the quality of future research in the Social and Administrative Pharmacy field.

In 1999, SRC established the Dissertator Research Grants Program to support dissertation research of students in the UW School of Pharmacy Graduate Program in Social and Administrative Sciences. The spirit underlying the dissertator grant program is to: 1) help promising dissertators pursue research in the Social and Administrative Sciences in Pharmacy that complements the mission of SRC; 2) supplement students' other dissertation funding efforts; and 3) encourange students to refine their grant proposal preparation skills. A maximum of $3,500 is awarded to each dissertator. The dissertation must have been approved by the student's dissertation committee, and the student must also prepare an application for external funding.