Though SETI (Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence) research has been around since 1960, the institute of the same name was founded on Nov. 20, 1984. The SETI Institute lost it’s government funding in 1993, but the work continues…read more.

From Nova ScienceNow:
A Q&A with SETI senior researcher Seth Shostak; A call to join SETI’s research projects…from your home!; Watch a video about SETI’s work.

From the series Life Beyond Earth:
An explanation of how SETI works, and “write to an alien“, what people like Stephen Jay Gould and Freeman Dyson would ask extraterrestrials.

From Scientific American Frontiers:
The web feature “Is Anybody Out There“, from the Life’s Big Questions episode.