Caltech Professor Gets Packard Fellowship

Nai-Chang Yeh, assistant professor of physics at Caltech, has received a five-year Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering to further her research in high-temperature super-conducting materials.

The award, worth $100,000 per year, is given to promising young scientists.

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation makes grants for programs in the arts, community, marine biology, environment, population and education. David Packard is chairman of Hewlett-Packard Co.