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The Packard Fellowships for Science and
Engineering
2021 Guidelines
The Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering $175,000 paid each year, $17,500 is available to the
program invests in future leaders who have the university as compensation for administrative costs.
freedom to take risks, explore new frontiers in their
fields of study, and follow uncharted paths that may Over the past 32 years, the Foundation has awarded
lead to groundbreaking discoveries. $447 million to support over 630 scientists and
engineers from 54 top national universities. It is
Program Overview among the nation's largest nongovernmental
fellowships, designed to allow maximum flexibility on
The success of the Hewlett-Packard Company was how the funding is used. Packard Fellows have gone
built on technology, derived in large measure from on to receive many additional awards and honors,
research and development in university laboratories. including Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Physics, Fields
Because the endowment of the David and Lucile Medals, Alan T. Waterman Awards, Breakthrough
Packard Foundation would not have been possible Prizes and elections to the National Academy of
without the success of HP and because the research Science, Engineering and Medicine.
performed by university-educated engineers and
scientists will provide the basis for future high-value What We Fund
economic activity for the nation, the Foundation has a
long-standing interest in strengthening both Candidates must be faculty members who are eligible
university-based research and graduate education. to serve as principal investigators engaged in research
in the natural and physical sciences or engineering
In 1988, the Foundation established the Packard and must be within the first three years of their
Fellowships for Science and Engineering to allow the faculty careers. Disciplines that will be considered
nation's most promising early career professors to include physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology,
pursue their science and engineering research with astronomy, computer science, earth science, ocean
few funding restrictions and limited paperwork science, and all branches of engineering. Candidates
requirements. engaged in research in the social sciences will not be
considered.
Every year, the Foundation invites the presidents of
50 universities to nominate two early-career The Fellowship Program provides support for highly
professors each from their institutions. Nominations creative researchers early in their careers; faculty
are carefully reviewed by the Fellowship Advisory members who are well established and well-funded
Panel, comprised of distinguished scientists and are less likely to receive the award. Packard Fellows
engineers. 20 recipients will receive individual grants are inquisitive, passionate scientists and engineers
of $875,000 distributed over five years. Of the who take a creative approach to their research, dare
to think big, and follow new ideas wherever they lead.The Foundation emphasizes support for innovative Advisory Panel. Up to two nominations may be made
individual research that involves the Fellows, their by the president of each institution. Candidates must
students, and junior colleagues, rather than be faculty members in the first three years of their
extensions or components of large-scale, ongoing faculty careers, that is, whose initial faculty
research programs. appointments began no earlier than May 31, 2018,
and no later than May 31, 2021.
Packard Fellows are inquisitive, passionate Selection Process
scientists and engineers who take a creative
approach to their research, dare to think big and Nominations are reviewed by the Advisory Panel,
follow new ideas wherever they lead. which makes recommendations to the Foundation's
Board of Trustees. The Board then makes the final
approval of the selected Fellows. In 2021, 20
nominees will be selected to receive the Packard
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Fellowship award. Packard Fellowships are awarded
without regard to age, race, national origin,
The Foundation’s goals and how we carry out our
citizenship, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or
work reflects our commitment to diversity, equity and
physical disability.
inclusion. Beginning with the 2021 Packard Fellows,
the Foundation will pilot a program to offer additional Timing of Awards
funding support to Fellows for activities that will help
increase diversity and representation in science and January 31, 2021 - Requests for nominations will be
engineering – whether in their research group, sent to university presidents.
department, university or scientific fields. An
February 15, 2021 - The Foundation’s online
invitation and details regarding this diversity funding
application system will be available to nominees and
support will be shared with the 2021 Fellows at the
referees on fellows.packard.org.
beginning of their grant period.
March 15, 2021 - Nominations are due to the
What We Do Not Fund Foundation.
Recognizing that certain areas of contemporary April 20, 2021 - All application materials (described
science and engineering already have access to below) must be submitted to the Foundation.
relatively generous funding (for example, clinical
research, research associated with the design and October 15, 2021 - Awards will be announced.
construction of large national facilities such as
Nomination and Application Requirements
accelerators and space stations, and applied research
of direct relevance to national security), the Packard Please note that nominees will not be able to access
Fellowships are directed to other, less generously the online application system until they have been
supported fields. identified to the Packard Foundation.
Nomination Procedure 1. A completed nomination form from the president
of the university. The nomination form, which will
Nominations are requested in January of each year be emailed to the universities with the request for
from the presidents of 50 universities selected by thenominations, should state the nominee's name not available in other letters of
and contact information including email address, recommendation.
departmental affiliation, sponsoring institution's • Recommendations from three people outside
name, and president's name and address. It the nominee’s university who are personally
should not include any written comments. familiar with the nominee's work and creative
ability. At least one recommendation must be
2. An online submission by each nominee should from a person who has had no supervisory or
include the following: collaborative contact with the nominee.
• Complete contact information
Letters of recommendation may be submitted
• Departmental and institutional affiliation(s)
through file upload on the Foundation’s online
• Disciplinary field(s)
application system or sent directly to Foundation staff
• Educational background
by email. Letters should not exceed two pages and
• Professional positions held
should be prepared in 12-point font with 1-inch
• Honors and awards
margins. It should be noted that the referee will not
• Current external research support
have access to the online system until the nominee
• Publications
enters their name and contact information into the
• Research statement system.
The research statement should describe why
the research is important and outline the Reporting Requirements
general goals for the next five years. The
statement should also indicate, in general, The Packard Fellowship Program seeks to keep
how funds will be used. This does not need to reporting requirements to a minimum for active
be a detailed budget and will not be binding Fellows. However, because this award is dependent
on the actual use of funds. The research upon satisfactory research progress, Fellows must file
statement is limited to 1,400 words annual narrative reports and a final financial report.
(maximum two pages of text, prepared in 12-
• A narrative report must be filed online
point font with 1-inch margins). If there are
(fellows.packard.org) by October 15 of each
relevant figures, images or references, please
year and consists of a brief, two-page
include these separately on a third page.
description of research progress, a publication
list, and updated curriculum vitae information.
3. Four letters of recommendation that include the
following:
• A final financial report must be submitted by
December 31 of the final year of the Fellowship.
• A recommendation from the nominee’s
The report should outline actual expenditures
department head, which should describe first-
for the entire grant period. The financial report
hand knowledge of the nominee's ability to
should be submitted by a university’s financial
do creative research. Nominees with joint
office on behalf of the Fellow.
appointments may submit a single letter
signed by both department heads. Emphasis Fellows within the first five years of their fellowship
in this letter should be given to information will be invited to participate in the annual Packard
Fellows Meeting, which is held each fall in Monterey,California. Fellows are expected to give an oral Johns Hopkins University
presentation on their work in their first and fifth years Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and are encouraged to make poster presentations in Michigan State University
other years. New York University
Northwestern University
Fellowship Advisory Panel Ohio State University
Pennsylvania State University
Richard B. Alley, Pennsylvania State University
Princeton University
Purdue University
Kristi S. Anseth, University of Colorado at Boulder Rice University
Stanford University
Frances H. Arnold, California Institute of Technology Texas A&M University
The State University of New Jersey – Rutgers
Martin Gruebele, University of Illinois, Urbana-
University of Arizona
Champaign University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Davis
Erich Jarvis, Rockefeller University University of California, Irvine
University of California, Los Angeles
Andrei Y. Okounkov, Columbia University
University of California, San Diego
University of California, San Francisco
Franklin M. (“Lynn”) Orr, Stanford University University of California, Santa Barbara
University of California, Santa Cruz
Stephen R. Quake, Stanford University University of Chicago
University of Colorado, Boulder
Robert J. Schoelkopf, Yale University
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
University of Maryland, College Park
Christopher W. Stubbs, Harvard University University of Michigan
University of Minnesota – Twin Cities
Eva Tardos, Cornell University University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
University of Pennsylvania
Sarah Tishkoff, University of Pennsylvania University of Pittsburgh
University of Rochester
Invited Institutions University of Southern California
Arizona State University 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 Washington University in St. Louis
Georgia Institute of Technology Yale University
Harvard UniversityProgram Modifications How to Reach Us
This program may be modified from time to time as Fellowships for Science and Engineering
experience is gained from its operation. Suggestions Conservation and Science Program
for modification will be solicited on a continuing basis The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
from the Fellowship Advisory Panel and from the 343 Second Street
Fellows. The Board of Trustees of the David and Lucile Los Altos, California 94022
Packard Foundation reserves the right to make any Phone: 650-917-7275
changes it considers desirable at any time. Email: fellows@packard.org
The online application and reporting system are found
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