2021 the Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering

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 the nominations, 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

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