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Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering Program

OVPR is actively accepting applications for this internal competition. If you are interested in applying to this program, you must submit a pre-application through the internal competitions submission portal. Pre-application requirements are listed in the announcement below.

The Office of the Vice President for Research and the Office of Advancement invite applications to the 2024 Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering Program. The David and Lucile Packard Foundation 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 aims to support the nation's most promising early career professors to pursue their science and engineering research with few funding restrictions and limited paperwork requirements. Stony Brook University has been invited to nominate TWO candidates for the 2024 competition. 

Please see below for details. If you are interested in applying, you must submit the internal competitions form by Friday, February 16, 2024. Pre-applications for internal review and selection must be uploaded to the portal as a single PDF document. The competition code for this program is LC202414.

WHAT DOES IT FUND: 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. 

APPLICANT REQUIREMENTS: Candidates must be faculty members who are eligible to serve as principal investigators engaged in research in the natural and physical sciences or engineering and must be within the first three years of their faculty careers (initial faculty appointments began no earlier than May 31, 2021, and no later than May 31, 2024). 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.

AWARD: $875,000 over five years.

SPONSOR DEADLINE: Nominations due March 15, 2024. Applications due April 20, 2024.

A complete pre-application should comprise of the following:

    • Research statement (maximum two pages of text, prepared in 12-point font with 1-inch margins). The 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. If there are relevant figures, images or references, please include these separately on a third page.
    • CV/Biosketch
    • Current external research support
    • Recommendation letter (no more than two pages) from the candidate's department head, which should describe firsthand knowledge of the candidate's ability to do creative research. Candidates with joint appointments may submit a single letter signed by both department heads.