Donor recognition

Our SETI research and teaching 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 2016-2022 course offerings with gifts each year, including gifts to support the purchase of telescope time.
  • 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.

STEP Grant from The Planetary Society

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