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The David & Lucile Packard Foundation Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering
http://www.packard.org/wp‐content/uploads/2011/12/2012‐Packard‐Fellowship‐Guidelines.pdf
This funding opportunity is limited in that the institution may submit two applications in response to this solicitation.
NU Limited Submissions Process: http://www.research.northwestern.edu/ord/funding/limited‐submissions/
Sponsor Information: http://www.packard.org/wp‐content/uploads/2011/12/2012‐Packard‐Fellowship‐Guidelines.pdf
KEY DATES
Internal Letter of Intent Due: February 02, 2012, by midnight
Internal Proposal Due (by invitation): February 13, 2010, by midnight
Notification of Internal Candidates: February 27, 2012
Sponsor Due Date: April 20, 2012
SYNOPSIS
In 1988, the Foundation established the Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering to allow the nation's most promising young
professors to pursue their science and engineering research with few funding restrictions and limited paperwork requirements.
The intent of the Fellowship Program is to provide support for unusually creative researchers early in their careers; faculty members
who are well established and well funded are less likely to receive the award. It is further the intent of the Foundation to emphasize
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. Candidates must be faculty members in the first three years of their faculty
careers, that is, whose initial faculty appointments began no earlier than May 31, 2009, and no later than May 31, 2012.
Every year, the Foundation invites the presidents of 50 universities to nominate two young professors each from their institutions.
Nominations are carefully reviewed by an Advisory Panel of distinguished scientists and engineers. Sixteen recipients will receive
individual grants of $875,000 distributed over five years. Of the $175,000 paid each year, $17,500 is available to the university as
compensation for administrative costs.
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. 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.
SUBMITTING A MANDATORY LETTER OF INTENT
Faculty members interested in putting together an internal proposal are required to submit a letter of intent (LOI) to Alden Chang at
alden‐chang@northwestern.edu by midnight via email on February 02, 2012. To submit an LOI, please click here.

SUBMISSION OF INTERNAL PROPOSALS
When interest in a limited funding opportunity exceeds the number of submissions the university is allowed, invitations to submit
internal proposals are sent to faculty who submitted internal letters of intent. This invitation is disseminated by email and will
include a link for investigators to upload their proposals into the NU Depot system as a SINGLE PDF FILE.
Proposals for this announcement should be prepared with one inch margins, all around, and in a 12 pt. font.
A complete proposal for this limited funding opportunity should contain the following components:
1. Nominee’s CV, including publication list and honors and awards
2. List of current and pending support
3. A research statement which should describe why the proposed research is important and outline the general goals for the next
five years (2 pages, max, [figures, images and references can be included on a third page])
4. Recommendation letter from department chair, which should describe first‐hand knowledge of the nominee’s ability to do
creative research (two pages max)
5. List of external references that will provide the other three required letters as described in the guidelines (one page max)
Internal Proposal files should be named ”LastName‐FirstInitial‐Packard‐2012 Packard," replacing "LastName" with the PI’s last name
and "FirstInitial" with the PI’s first initial. Please follow the instructions below to upload the file to Depot.
UPLOADING YOUR INTERNAL PROPOSAL INTO THE DEPOT SYSTEM
1. Click on the Depot ticket provided to you in the email inviting you to submit an internal proposal email to access the appropriate
Depot folder.
2. Click the Upload button.
3. Click the Browse button and navigate to your file on your hard drive or network.
4. Click the OK button in Depot. (Note: You will get a tiny confirmation message upon upload. If you do not see it, you may contact
Alden Chang for a verbal or written confirmation)
Please note that upload tickets expire after the internal proposal deadline, as such, late submissions are not possible. Also note that
the Depot system does not allow you to overwrite a previous upload. If you need to upload a revised proposal BEFORE the stated
deadline, please contact the Office of Research Development.
CONTACTS
Limited Submissions web site: http://www.research.northwestern.edu/ord/funding/limited‐submissions/
Alden Chang, ORD Research Administrator, 847‐467,0043, alden‐chang@northwestern.edu
Fruma Yehiely, Director of ORD, 847‐491‐1074, yehiely@northwestern.edu