<p>The Packard Foundation has just announced its 16 Packard Fellows for 2011. These are among the brightest young factulty stars in science and engineering and each is awarded a grant of $875,000.00 for his or her research. The Packard is one of the most generous award programs in academia.</p>
<p>Princeton, Harvard, Stanford and Yale each had one Fellow this year and no school had more than one. Princetons winner was Asst. Professor Bogdan Bernevig in physics.</p>
<p>[Bogdan</a> Bernevig Packard Foundation](<a href=“http://www.packard.org/what-we-fund/conservation-and-science/packard-fellowships-for-science-and-engineering/fellowship-directory/bernevig-bogdan/]Bogdan”>http://www.packard.org/what-we-fund/conservation-and-science/packard-fellowships-for-science-and-engineering/fellowship-directory/bernevig-bogdan/)</p>
<p>Packard Fellows Since Founding of Program
(leading institutions)</p>
<p>27—Berkeley
26—MIT</p>
<p>24—CalTech
23—Princeton
20—Harvard, Stanford</p>
<p>15—Yale
13—Cornell
12—Northwestern
11—JHU, Penn State
10—Columbia</p>
<p>[Fellowship</a> Directory Packard Foundation](<a href=“http://www.packard.org/what-we-fund/conservation-and-science/packard-fellowships-for-science-and-engineering/fellowship-directory/?fellow_name&fellow_institution=All+Institutions&fellow_discipline=All+Disciplines&fellow_year=2011&page=1]Fellowship”>http://www.packard.org/what-we-fund/conservation-and-science/packard-fellowships-for-science-and-engineering/fellowship-directory/?fellow_name&fellow_institution=All+Institutions&fellow_discipline=All+Disciplines&fellow_year=2011&page=1)
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