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SIGF: Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship

About SIGF

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.

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The 2019 SIGF application opened Tuesday, January 8, 2019.

The deadline to apply was Monday, February 25, 2019 at 11:59PM.

Contact sigf@stanford.edu with any questions. Review info session slides for more information.

Recent News

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Jan 28 2019 | Stanford Medicine
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Jan 22 2019 | The New York Times
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Jan 5 2019 | ABC News
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aerial image of two-story houses in a neighborhood with solar panels on the roofs
Dec 19 2018 | Stanford News
Knowing which Americans have installed solar panels on their roofs and why they did so would be enormously useful for managing the changing U.S. electricity system and to understanding the barriers to greater use of renewable resources. But until now, all that has been available are essentially...