Profile: Dr. H. Paul Shuch

Personal background
Dr. SETI, as H. Paul Shuch is known to his intimates, is something of a cross between Carl Sagan and Tom Lehrer (he sings like Sagan and lectures like Lehrer). The aerospaceengineer credited with the design of the world's first commercial home satellite TV receiver now directs his microwave interests toward the search for life in space. Dr. Shuch received his PhD in Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining the nonprofit SETI League as its Executive Director, he served as an engineering professor on various campuses for a total of 24 years.

Paul is the author of more than 400 publications. His honors include the Dayton Hamvention Technical Excellence Award, an ARRL Technical Achievement Award, the National Space Club's Dr. Robert H. Goddard Scholarship, a Hertz Foundation Fellowship in the Applied Physical Sciences, the Hertz Doctoral Thesis Prize, and the Central States VHF Society's John T. Chambers Memorial Award. He has won for The SETI League an ARRL Equipment Grant, two AAS Small Research Grants and two CPaCCIT Technology Achievement Awards. He is a Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society, the European Radio Astronomy Club, and the Radio Club of America; a member of the International Academy of Astronautics; Director of Education for AMSAT; Vice President of the Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers; serves as a fellowship interviewer for the Hertz Foundation, a manuscript reviewer for several peer reviewed journals, as Co-Chair and Webmaster for the IAA SETI Permanent Study Group, is Principal Investigator for the Invitation to ETI project, has been an advisor to the National Science Foundation, and is a military program evaluator for the American Council on Education.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
Are We Alone? It's a fundamental question, which has haunted humankind since first we realized that the points of light in the night sky are other suns. Today we have the technology to seek a definitive answer! The SETI League, Inc. is participatory science. We are the international grass-roots organization dedicated to privatizing the electromagnetic Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. Together, over 1400 SETI League members in 66 countries on all seven continents are keeping alive the quest for our cosmic companions.
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