The Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship (SIGF) is a competitive University-wide program that awards three-year fellowships to outstanding doctoral students engaged in interdisciplinary research.
SIGF
SIGF supports doctoral students whose research crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries.
2015 SIGF Fellows
Nathan Atkinson
Richard & Dixie Grossman Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow, BusinessI develop game-theoretic models to explore questions at the intersection of law and political economics. In one project, I explore the nature and authority of judicial precedent. By learning how judges can limit the decision-making power of...
Alexandra Blackman
Robert and Lisa Bertelson Graduate Fellow, Political ScienceOne of the key changes resulting from the Arab spring is the rapid deregulation of the religious sphere in several Arab countries. After 2011, for instance, imams at mosques in Tunisia, whose Friday sermons were previously controlled by the state...
K.C. Busch
Neukermans Family Graduate Fellow, EducationClimate change is a pressing environmental problem, and the burden of its effects will be shouldered by today’s youth. However, climate change is not an issue for which youth have much knowledge, concern, or agency. Drawing on research from the...
Keith Cross
Naidu Family Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow, EducationI am an artist and a scientist who both performs and studies lyrical improvisation, a Hip Hop art form that involves the spontaneous composition of rhyming lyrics and novel rhythmic and melodic patterns, while still producing coherent speech. As...
Anna Cunningham
Morgridge Family SIGF Fellow, Bio-X SIGF, Chemical and Systems BiologyG6PD deficiency afflicts over 400 million people worldwide, and is a risk factor for many diseases such as diabetes, bipolar disorder, Huntington’s disease, and jaundice. Over 160 different mutations in the protein glucose-6-phosphate...
Ivan Enchev Ivanov
Tusher Family Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow, Bio-X SIGF, Chemical EngineeringThe DNA double helix is continually bent, stretched, and unwound by protein machines involved in reading, packaging, and editing the genome. I am developing new sensitive methods for monitoring these deformations in individual DNA molecules in...
Tanya Glozman
Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow (Anonymous Donor), SIGF affiliated with the Stanford Neurosciences Institute, Electrical EngineeringUnderstanding the relationship between structure and function in the human brain is a key interest in neuroscience. In recent years the focus is turning to understanding the role of the white matter in human cognition, brain function and...
Peyton Greenside
Morgridge Family SIGF Fellow, Bio-X SIGF, Biomedical InformaticsThe majority of genetic variants associated with disease phenotypes fall in regions of the genome that do not code for proteins. A large barrier to understanding the genetic basis of disease is understanding the functional implications and...
Jessica Grembi
Jim and Gaye Pigott Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow, Civil and Environmental EngineeringEnvironmental enteric dysfunction (EED) affects 50-90% of children in low-income countries and is likely an important factor in child stunting as it impedes efficient nutrient uptake in the small intestine. EED is suspected to be the result of...
Kevin Hart
Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow (Anonymous Donor), Bio-X SIGF, BiologyDuring tissue and organ development, cells experience changes in their mechanical environment. Cells can sense and respond to these changes through cell-cell junctions, and defects in these molecular complexes lead to developmental defects and or...
