Packard Fellowship: Harvard Pre-Proposal Deadline

Packard Foundation Fellowships for Science and Engineering
Harvard Pre-Proposal Deadline: January 21, 2024
OSP Deadline, if selected: March 8, 2024. Departments or areas may require additional time for proposal review and submission. Please discuss a timeline with your grants administrator.
Sponsor Deadline, if selected: March 15, 2024
Award Amount: $875,000 over five years
Eligible Disciplines: Disciplines that will be considered include physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology, astronomy, computer science, earth science, ocean science, and all branches of engineering.

The Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering provide the nation’s most promising early-career scientists and engineers with flexible funding and the freedom to take risks and explore new frontiers in their fields of study. Packard Fellows are encouraged to think big and look at complex issues with a fresh perspective. Fellows may use their funds to pursue their research with few funding restrictions and limited paperwork requirements over five years.

This is a limited submission opportunity and Harvard University may put forward only two nominations. Applicants for the Harvard nomination must submit a pre-proposal to an internal competition administered by the Office of the Vice Provost of Research (OVPR) at the link above. The internal pre-proposal must include a letter of recommendation from the Department or Area Chair describing first-hand knowledge of the applicant's ability to do creative research. 

While initial faculty appointments should have begun no earlier than May 31, 2021, and no later than May 31, 2024, the Foundation allows exceptions to the eligibility window for time taken for family/medical leave. If a nominee is outside the eligibility window, this should be briefly acknowledged in the nomination letter.

Recent recipients include Carlos Argüelles-Delgado (Physics, 2023), Kara McKinley (SCRB, 2022), Julia Mundy (Physics, 2020), Marine Denolle (EPS, 2017), Kang-Kuen Ni (CCB, 2016), Karin Oberg (Astronomy, 2014), Emily Balskus (CCB, 2013), Charlie Conroy (Astronomy, 2013), and John Johnson (Astronomy, 2012).