Packard Fellowships in Science and Engineering 2025
| To: | Chairs and Administrators, Departments in the Physical Sciences; Associate Deans for Research; College/School Research Administrators |
| From: | Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research & Graduate Education |
| Date: | November 12, 2024 |
| Subject: | Packard Fellowships in Science and Engineering 2025 |
Deadline
| Deadline for Internal Review: | January 06, 2025 |
Project Description
This announcement is based on last year’s Program Guidelines, sponsor deadlines are approximate
The Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering program invests in future leaders who have the freedom to take risks, explore new frontiers in their fields of study, and follow uncharted paths that may lead to groundbreaking discoveries. The program was established to allow the nation’s most promising early career professors to pursue their science and engineering research with few funding restrictions and limited paperwork requirements.
Amount per Award: $875,000
Duration of Award: 5 Years
Number of Awards: 20
Eligibility
Candidates must be faculty members who are eligible to serve as principal investigators engaged in research in the natural and physical sciences or engineering. Candidates must be faculty members in the first three years of their faculty careers, that is, whose initial faculty appointments began no earlier than May 31, 2022, and no later than May 31, 2025.
Disciplines that will be considered include physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology, astronomy, computer science, earth science, ocean science, and all branches of engineering. Candidates engaged in research in the social sciences will not be considered.
The Fellowship Program provides support for highly creative researchers early in their careers; faculty members who are well established and well-funded are less likely to receive the award. Packard Fellows are inquisitive, passionate scientists and engineers 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 individual research that involves the Fellows, their students, and junior colleagues, rather than extensions or components of large-scale, ongoing research programs.
UW-Madison is allowed to submit 2 nominations.
Website
The following link contains additional information on the program and specific application instructions:
https://www.packard.org/what-we-fund/science/packard-fellowships-for-science-and-engineering/
Internal Competition Application Instructions
Applications for Internal Review
To submit your application, attach a single PDF to an email to grants@research.wisc.edu.
Please include the following information:
- Cover Sheet – full contact information, Dept., Appointment Date within guidelines
- CV describing:
Educational background
Professional positions held
Honors and awards
Current external research support
Publications - Recommendation from the nominee’s department head – should describe first-hand knowledge of the nominee’s ability to do creative research. Nominees with joint appointments may submit a single letter signed by both department heads. Emphasis in this letter should be given to information not available in other letters of recommendation.
- Research Statement – should describe why the research is important and outline the general goals for the next five years. The statement should also indicate, in general, how funds will be used. The research statement is limited to 1,400 words (maximum two pages of text, prepared in 12-point font with 1-inch margins). If there are relevant figures, images or references, please include these separately on a third page.
Sponsor Deadlines
Nominations are due to The David and Lucile Packard Foundation by March 15, 2025. Applications are due to The David and Lucile Packard Foundation by April 20, 2025.
Questions?
Contact grants@research.wisc.edu.