The SETI Institute is pleased to announce that Dr. Jill Tarter was selected by the editors of TIME magazine as one of the world’s 100 most “influential and powerful people.” Dr. Tarter was chosen in the “Scientist and Thinker” category for her leadership role in the scientific search for evidence of life on other worlds, and for her efforts to promote scientific literacy among youth, particularly girls and young women.

Tarter has devoted her life to the science of detecting intelligent, technological civilizations through searches of the electromagnetic (radio and now optical) spectrum, a discipline within the growing field of astrobiology.

A former Project Scientist for NASA’s SETI program, the High Resolution Microwave Survey, today Tarter holds the Bernard M. Oliver Chair for SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) and is Director of the Center for SETI Research at the SETI Institute. Earlier this year, Tarter oversaw the completion of the Institute’s privately funded Project Phoenix and the release of Voyages Through Time, an integrated science curriculum for high school students, developed by the Institute’s education department and its partners. Tarter is currently the project leader of the Allen Telescope Array, the Institute’s innovative, next-generation radio telescope that will come on line with 32 dishes late in 2004. source:

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