Donor recognition

Our SETI research, teaching, and community engagement efforts would not be possible without the generous gifts of our donors. We are extremely grateful for their support!

  • Fritz Demopoulos’s 2020 gift sustains and propels our search to a new level.
  • Robert Meadow and Carrie Menkel-Meadow’s 2023 gift enabled additional public engagement.
  • Larry Lesyna enabled the 2016–2024 UCLA SETI course offerings with gifts each year, including gifts to support the purchase of telescope time.
  • Dr. Joe Straus and Mrs. Andrea Straus supported UCLA SETI student training with gifts in 2023 and 2024.
  • The Rattray Kimura Foundation supported our search efforts with gifts in 2023 and 2024.
  • Michael W. Thacher and Rhonda L. Rundle enabled the purchase of telescope time in 2017–2019 and a 200 TB storage server in 2019.
  • Janet Marott kick-started the UCLA SETI course by enabling the purchase of a 100 TB storage server in 2016.
  • Arnie Boyarsky enabled the purchase of telescope time for the Spring 2017 UCLA SETI course offering.
  • Gary and Nancy Beverage enabled the purchase of telescope time for the Spring 2018 UCLA SETI course offering.
  • David Saltzberg has contributed to our SETI initiative with gifts every year in 2016–2020.
  • 32 donors contributed generously to our 2019 crowdfunding campaign.

NASA Grant and STEP Grant from The Planetary Society

Thanks to grants from NASA and The Planetary Society, we launched a collaboration with citizen scientists to identify the most promising candidate signals in our data. We are thrilled and grateful to partner with NASA and The Planetary Society in this effort. Follow the links to the video, text, and podcast announcements.