I'm an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Whittier College. When I was a kid I wanted to be an astronomer, but in high school physics wasn't as "phun" as I thought it would be. :-) Yet, I have always retained an interest in things outside of our immediately experience-able world.
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.