Video interviews with graduate students about ongoing interdisciplinary research.  Viviana Gradinaru is combining neuroscience and bioengineering to study the human body's circuits involving packets of disease to understand which circuits are responsible for therapeutic effects.   Binyamin Blum, a student in history and law, is studying the transplantation of English common law into the Middle East between World Wars I & II.   This work has potential to inform current policy debates about introducing the rule of law abroad. 

The work of these students and others is funded by the Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship Program (SIGF).  SIGF enables students to focus on important research, and it supports innovative risk-taking and collaboration across departmentsr.