I am about to graduate from Clarion University of PA as a Chemistry major and I am second in my class. I truly believe something out there is waiting for us to find that is why I have actually built a computer so that SETI can use all the power that it can at my disposal.
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.