David and Lucile Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering

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.)