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Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering
2023 Guidelines
The Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering Over the past 34 years, the Foundation has awarded
Program invests in future leaders who have the $464 million to support over 670 scientists and
freedom to take risks, explore new frontiers in their engineers from 55 top national universities. It is
fields of study, and follow uncharted paths that may among the nation's largest nongovernmental
lead to groundbreaking discoveries. fellowships, designed to allow maximum flexibility on
how the funding is used. Packard Fellows have gone
Program Overview on to receive many additional awards and honors,
including Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Physics, Fields
The success of the Hewlett-Packard Company was
Medals, Alan T. Waterman Awards, Breakthrough
built on technology, derived in large measure from
Prizes and elections to the National Academy of
research and development in university laboratories.
Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.
Because the endowment of the David and Lucile
Packard Foundation would not have been possible What We Fund
without the success of HP, and because the research
performed by university-educated engineers and Candidates must be faculty members who are eligible
scientists will provide the basis for future high-value to serve as principal investigators engaged in research
economic activity for the nation, the Foundation has a in the natural and physical sciences or engineering
long-standing interest in strengthening both and must be within the first three years of their
university-based research and graduate education. faculty careers. Disciplines that will be considered
include physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology,
In 1988, the Foundation established the Packard astronomy, computer science, earth science, ocean
Fellowships for Science and Engineering to allow the science, and all branches of engineering. Candidates
nation's most promising early career professors to engaged in research in the social sciences will not be
pursue their science and engineering research with considered.
few funding restrictions and limited paperwork
requirements. The Fellowship Program provides support for highly
Every year, the Foundation invites the presidents of creative researchers early in their careers; faculty
50 universities to nominate two early-career members who are well-established and well-funded
professors each from their institutions. Nominations are less likely to receive the award. Packard Fellows
are carefully reviewed by the Fellowship Advisory are inquisitive, passionate scientists and engineers
Panel, comprised of distinguished scientists and who take a creative approach to their research, dare
engineers. 20 recipients will receive individual grants to think big, and follow new ideas wherever they lead.
of $875,000 distributed over five years. Of the
$175,000 paid each year, $17,500 is available to the The Foundation emphasizes support for innovative
university as compensation for administrative costs. individual research that involves the Fellows, theirstudents, and junior colleagues, rather than by the president of each institution. Candidates must
extensions or components of large-scale, ongoing be faculty members in the first three years of their
research programs. faculty careers, that is, whose initial faculty
appointments began no earlier than May 31, 2020,
and no later than May 31, 2023.
Packard Fellows are inquisitive, passionate
scientists and engineers who take a creative The Foundation will host “Nomination Office Hours”
approach to their research, dare to think big and for faculty members who might have specific
follow new ideas wherever they lead. questions about their eligibility for the 2023 Packard
Fellowships. These meetings are optional and will not
have any influence in the review process. Please click
here to sign up for an appointment.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Selection Process
The Foundation’s goals and how we carry out our
work reflect our commitment to diversity, equity, and Nominations are reviewed by the Advisory Panel,
inclusion. In 2021, the Foundation piloted a program which makes recommendations to the Foundation's
to offer additional funding support to Fellows for Board of Trustees. The Board then makes the final
activities that help increase diversity and approval of the selected Fellows. In 2023, 20
representation in science and engineering – whether nominees will be selected to receive the Packard
in their research group, department, university, or Fellowship award. Packard Fellowships are awarded
scientific fields. The second year of the pilot began in without regard to age, race, national origin,
2022 and will continue into 2023. An invitation and citizenship, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or
details regarding this diversity funding support will be physical disability.
shared with the 2023 Fellows at the beginning of their
grant period. Timing of Awards
January 31, 2023 - Requests for nominations will be
What We Do Not Fund
sent to university presidents.
Recognizing that certain areas of contemporary
February 15, 2023 - The Foundation’s online
science and engineering already have access to
application system will be available to nominees and
relatively generous funding (for example, clinical
referees on fellows.packard.org.
research, research associated with the design and
construction of large national facilities such as March 15, 2023 - Nominations are due to the
accelerators and space stations and applied research Foundation.
of direct relevance to national security), the Packard * Now April 21 due to storm extension
Fellowships are directed to other, less generously April 20, 2023* - All application materials (described
supported fields. below) must be submitted to the Foundation.
October 16, 2023 - Awards will be announced.
Nomination Procedure
Nominations are requested in January of each year
from the presidents of 50 universities selected by the Nomination and Application Requirements
Advisory Panel. Up to two nominations may be madePlease note that nominees will not be able to access hand knowledge of the nominee's ability to
the online application system until they have been do creative research. Nominees with joint
identified to the Packard Foundation. appointments may submit a single letter
signed by both department heads. Emphasis
1. A completed nomination form from the president in this letter should be given to information
of the university. The nomination form, which will not available in other letters of
be emailed to the universities with the request for recommendation.
nominations, should state the nominee's name
• Recommendations from three people outside
and contact information including email address,
the nominee’s university who are personally
departmental affiliation, sponsoring institution's
familiar with the nominee's work and creative
name, and president's name and address. It
ability. At least one recommendation must be
should not include any written comments.
from a person who has had no supervisory or
collaborative contact with the nominee.
2. An online submission by each nominee should
include the following: Letters of recommendation may be submitted
• Complete contact information through file upload on the Foundation’s online
• Departmental and institutional affiliation(s) application system or sent directly to Foundation staff
• Disciplinary field(s) by email. Letters should not exceed two pages and
• Educational background should be prepared in 12-point font with 1-inch
• Professional positions held margins. It should be noted that the referee will not
• Honors and awards have access to the online system until the nominee
• Current external research support enters their name and contact information into the
• Publications system.
• Research statement
Reporting Requirements
The research statement should describe why
the research is important and outline the The Packard Fellowship Program seeks to keep
general goals for the next five years. The reporting requirements to a minimum for active
statement should also indicate, in general, Fellows. However, because this award is dependent
how funds will be used. This does not need to upon satisfactory research progress, Fellows must file
be a detailed budget and will not be binding annual narrative reports and a final financial report.
on the actual use of funds. The research
statement is limited to 1,400 words • A narrative report must be filed online
(maximum two pages of text, prepared in 12- (fellows.packard.org) by October 15 of each
point font with 1-inch margins). If there are year and consists of a brief, two-page
relevant figures, images or references, please description of research progress, a publication
include these separately on a third page. list, and updated curriculum vitae information.
3. Four letters of recommendation that include the • A final financial report must be submitted by
following: December 31 of the final year of the Fellowship.
The report should outline actual expenditures
• A recommendation from the nominee’s for the entire grant period. The financial report
department head, which should describe first-should be submitted by the university’s Pennsylvania State University
financial office on behalf of the Fellow. Princeton University
Purdue University
Fellows within the first five years of their fellowship Rice University
will be invited to participate in the annual Packard Stanford University
Fellows Meeting, which is held each fall in Monterey, SUNY at Stony Brook
California. Fellows are expected to give an oral Texas A&M University
presentation on their work in their first and fifth years The State University of New Jersey – Rutgers
and are encouraged to make poster presentations in University of Arizona
other years. University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Davis
Fellowship Advisory Panel University of California, Irvine
Richard B. Alley, Pennsylvania State University University of California, Los Angeles
Kristi S. Anseth, University of Colorado at Boulder University of California, San Diego
Martin Gruebele, University of Illinois, Urbana- University of California, San Francisco
Champaign University of California, Santa Barbara
Erich Jarvis, Rockefeller University University of California, Santa Cruz
Celeste M. Nelson, Princeton University University of Chicago
Andrei Y. Okounkov, Columbia University University of Colorado, Boulder
Franklin M. (“Lynn”) Orr, Stanford University University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Stephen R. Quake, Stanford University University of Maryland, College Park
Robert J. Schoelkopf, Yale University University of Michigan
Christopher W. Stubbs, Harvard University University of Minnesota – Twin Cities
Eva Tardos, Cornell University University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Sarah Tishkoff, University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania
University of Pittsburgh
University of Rochester
Invited Institutions
University of Southern California
University of Texas at Austin
Brown University
University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center
California Institute of Technology
University of Utah
Carnegie Mellon University
University of Virginia
Columbia University
University of Washington
Cornell University
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Duke University
Vanderbilt University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Washington University in St. Louis
Harvard University
Yale University
Johns Hopkins University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
New York University
Northwestern University
Ohio State UniversityProgram Modifications How to Reach Us
This program may be modified from time to time as Fellowships for Science and Engineering Environment
experience is gained from its operation. Suggestions and Science Program
for modifications will be solicited on a continuing The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
basis from the Fellowship Advisory Panel and from 343 Second Street
the Fellows. The Board of Trustees of the David and Los Altos, California 94022
Lucile Packard Foundation reserves the right to make Phone: 650-917-7275
any changes it considers desirable at any time. Email: fellows@packard.org
The online application and reporting system are found
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