The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has selected Richard Alley of Pennsylvania State University to chair the Advisory Panel of the Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering. Dr. Alley, world-renowned geologist and 1991 Packard Fellow, will lead the prestigious group of scientists and engineers who are responsible for selecting a class of Fellows each year … Continued
October 15, 2020 (Los Altos, CA) – Today, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation announced the 2020 class of Packard Fellows for Science and Engineering. This year’s class features 20 innovative early-career scientists and engineers, who will each receive $875,000 over five years to pursue their research. The Packard Fellowships in Science and Engineering are … Continued
Xiao-Wei Wang
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Back in 2013, I traveled to the East Coast to interview two dozen or so Packard Fellows for a video commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Packard Fellowships in Science and Engineering. As manager of the Fellows program since 2004, I was excited to visit with so many Fellows in their native university habitats. It was then … Continued
October 15, 2019 (Los Altos, CA) – Today, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation announced the 2019 class of Packard Fellows for Science and Engineering. This year’s class features 22 early-career scientists and engineers, who will each receive $875,000 over five years to pursue their research. The Packard Fellowships in Science and Engineering are among … Continued
Announcing the 2018 recipients of the Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering. Each of the 18 innovative, early-career scientists and engineers will receive $875,000 over five years to pursue their research.
Karen Kudelko
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View the Experience This year, the Packard Foundation Fellowships for Science and Engineering program is celebrating 30 years of supporting early-career scientists and engineers in their exploration of the unknown. By its very nature, science informs more science, and discoveries mount over time. The way science builds on itself means that Packard Fellows, their work, … Continued
October 16, 2017 (Los Altos, CA) – Today, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation named 18 of the nation’s most innovative, early-career scientists and engineers as recipients of the 2017 Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering. Each Fellow will receive $875,000 over five years to pursue their research. The Packard Fellowships are among the nation’s … Continued
Today, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation named 18 of the nation’s most innovative early-career scientists and engineers as recipients of the 2016 Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering. Each Fellow will receive a grant of $875,000 over five years to pursue their research. “David Packard loved science and engineering – and scientists and engineers. … Continued
The Foundation celebrated the 25th year of the Packard Fellowships in Science and Engineering with a reunion of former and current Fellows in Denver, Colorado. The Packard Fellowship program was established in 1988 to allow the nation’s most promising scientists to pursue science and engineering research early in their careers with few funding restrictions and … Continued