I am a graduate student in history at the UofM.
I participate becuase I believe that if we can get humanity closer to realize its place in the world and the larger scheme of things it will be easier to solve those problems that we collectively face!
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.