The Packard Foundation 334d ago

At the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, our call is to create and support enduring solutions to the interconnected challenges that face humanity and nature.  Central to this mission is support for scientific inquiry, which often seeks to answer fundamental questions about the world and is essential for laying the groundwork for future breakthroughs and innovation. Through the Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering, we invest in visionary minds exploring questions at the very edges of their fields and encourage them to push the boundaries of knowledge and discovery.  Each year, the Packard Fellowship Advisory Panel selects approximately 20 Fellows from 50 invited institutions to receive individual grants of $875,000, distributed over five years. These Fellows are early-career scientists and engineers working on cutting edge research across a variety of fields from evolutionary biology to astrophysics; neuroscience to nanotechnology.  Since its inception, the Packard Foundation has awarded nearly $500 million to support 715 scientists and engineers.  The Fellowship grants are unrestricted funds that can be used in any way the Fellows choose. Fellows have used funds for everything from lab equipment to hiring students to childcare, all expenditures that ultimately make their work possible.