Jared Lewis (B.S. 2002) was chosen as a 2011 Recipient of the David and Lucille Packard Foundation Fellowship.

Lewis, assistant professor in chemistry at the University of Chicago, was among 16 scientific researchers nationwide to receive a 2011 Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering from the David and Lucille Packard Foundation. Each Packard fellow will receive an unrestricted research grant of $875,000 over five years. This year the Packard Foundation received 99 nominations from 50 invited universities.

Lewis was selected a 2011 Searle Scholar earlier this year. He is creating artificial metallic enzymes to improve the biosynthetic capabilities of organisms for chemical production.