The University of Minnesota Graduate School

David and Lucile Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering

U of MN Announcement and submission guidelines Internal deadline: February 23, 2009

Synopsis
The goals of the fellowship program are to support outstanding junior faculty as they build productive research programs and to help attract and retain faculty of the highest quality for universities.

Disciplines/research areas included:
Natural and physical sciences or engineering including physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology, astronomy, computer science, earth science, ocean science, and all branches of engineering. Not supported: Social sciences; certain areas of contemporary science and engineering that already have access to relatively generous funding (for example, clinical research, research associated with the design and construction of large national facilities such as accelerators and space stations, and applied research of direct relevance to national security.)

Eligibility
Candidates must be in the first three years of their faculty careers (as of May in the year of the award) and have demonstrated unusual creative ability in their research work. It is the intent of the Fellowship program to provide support for researchers early in their careers. Faculty who are well established and funded are less likely to receive a fellowship.
U of MN Information Grid: Additional information including contact information, award amount and duration, etc.
Award Recipients from the University of Minnesota
Agency Website External Link with complete program details

 

From: http://www.grad.umn.edu/faculty-staff/funding/external_sources/programs/packard/index.html on 11/25/2009