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The Packard Fellowships for Science and
Engineering
2018 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 29 years, the Foundation has awarded $394
lead to groundbreaking discoveries. million to support over 577 scientists and engineers
from 54 top national universities. It is among the
Program Overview nation's largest nongovernmental fellowships,
designed to allow maximum flexibility on how the
The success of the Hewlett-Packard Company has funding is used. Packard Fellows have gone on to
been built on technology, derived in large measure receive many additional awards and honors, including
from research and development in university the Nobel Prize in Physics; the Fields Medal; the
laboratories. Because the endowment of the David MacArthur Fellowships; and elections to the National
and Lucile Packard Foundation would not have been Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of
possible without the success of HP and because the Engineering.
research performed by university-educated engineers
and scientists will provide the basis for future high- What We Fund
value 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. Eighteen recipients will receive individual are inquisitive, passionate scientists and engineers
grants of $875,000 distributed over five years. Of thewho take a creative approach to their research, dare approval of the selected Fellows. In 2018, 18
to think big, and follow new ideas wherever they lead. nominees will be selected to receive the Packard
Fellowship award. Packard Fellowships are awarded
The Foundation emphasizes support for innovative without regard to age, race, national origin,
individual research that involves the Fellows, their citizenship, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or
students, and junior colleagues, rather than physical disability.
extensions or components of large-scale, ongoing
research programs. Timing of Awards
January 31, 2018 - Requests for nominations will be
Packard Fellows are inquisitive, passionate sent to university presidents.
scientists and engineers who take a creative February 15, 2018 - The Foundation’s online
approach to their research, dare to think big and application system will be available to nominees and
follow new ideas wherever they lead. referees on fellows.packard.org.
March 15, 2018 - Nominations are due to the
What We Do Not Fund Foundation
Recognizing that certain areas of contemporary April 20, 2018 - 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, 2018 - 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 mailed to the universities with the request for
from the presidents of 50 universities selected by the
nominations, should state the nominee's name
Advisory Panel. Up to two nominations may be made
and contact information including email address,
by the president of each institution. Candidates must
departmental affiliation, sponsoring institution's
be faculty members in the first three years of their
name, and president's name and address. It
faculty careers, that is, whose initial faculty
should not include any written comments.
appointments began no earlier than May 31, 2015,
and no later than May 31, 2018.
2. An online submission by each nominee should
Selection Process include the following:
• Complete contact information
Nominations are reviewed by the Advisory Panel, • Departmental and institutional affiliation(s)
which makes recommendations to the Foundation's • Disciplinary field(s)
Board of Trustees. The Board then makes the final• Educational background by email or standard mail. Due to poor reproduction,
• Professional positions held letters should not be submitted by facsimile. Letters
• Honors and awards should not exceed two pages, and should be prepared
• Current external research support in 12-point font with 1-inch margins. It should be
• Publications noted that the referee will not have access to the
• Research statement online system until the nominee enters their name
The research statement should describe why and contact information into the system.
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 and financial reports.
(maximum two pages of text, prepared in 12-
point font with 1-inch margins). If there are • The narrative report must be filed online
relevant figures, images or references, please (fellows.packard.org) by October 15 of each
include these separately on a third page. year and consists of a brief, two-page
description of research progress, a publication
3. Four letters of recommendation that include the list, and updated curriculum vitae information.
following:
• The financial report must be submitted by
• A recommendation from the nominee’s December 31 of each year and should outline
department head, which should describe first- actual expenditures and the award balance for
hand knowledge of the nominee's ability to the reporting period, as well as cumulative
do creative research. Nominees with joint figures for the entire grant period. The financial
appointments may submit a single letter report should be submitted by a university’s
signed by both department heads. Emphasis financial office on behalf of the Fellow.
in this letter should be given to information
Fellows within the first five years of their fellowship
not available in other letters of
will be invited to participate in the annual Packard
recommendation.
Fellows Meeting, which is held each fall in Monterey,
California. Fellows are expected to give an oral
• Recommendations from three people outside
presentation on their work in their first and fifth years
the nominee’s university who are personally
and are encouraged to make poster presentations in
familiar with the nominee's work and creative
other years.
ability. At least one recommendation must be
from a person who has had no supervisory or
collaborative contact with the nominee.
Letters of recommendation may be submitted
through file upload on the Foundation’s online
application system or sent directly to Foundation staffFellowship 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
Jennifer A. Doudna, University of California, Berkeley University of Arizona
University of California, Berkeley
Martin Gruebele, University of Illinois, Urbana- University of California, Davis
Champaign University of California, Irvine
University of California, Los Angeles
Cynthia Kenyon, University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Diego
University of California, San Francisco
Andrei Y. Okounkov, Columbia University University of California, Santa Barbara
University of California, Santa Cruz
Franklin M. (“Lynn”) Orr, Stanford University University of Chicago
University of Colorado, Boulder
Stephen R. Quake, Stanford University University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
University of Maryland, College Park
Robert J. Schoelkopf, Yale University University of Michigan
University of Minnesota – Twin Cities
Christopher W. Stubbs, Harvard University University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
University of Pennsylvania
Eva Tardos, Cornell University 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 University
Johns Hopkins University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michigan State University
New York University
Northwestern 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. Fax: 650-948-2957
Email: fellows@packard.org
The online application and reporting system are found
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