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SETI League Announces 2005 Best Ideas Awards

For more information contact: Dr. H. Paul Shuch, Executive Director
(201) 641-1770, or email info_at_setileague.org

Mountain View, CA.., 19 March 2005 -- The editors of The SETI League's
scholarly journal Contact In Context tonight recognized three
individuals for major contributions to the SETI literature. Honored with
"Best Ideas Awards" this year at the annual CONTACT conference were
conference organizers Jim Funaro and Joel Hagen, and science author
Gerald D. Nordley. CONTACT, an informal gathering of artists, authors,
educators, and social scientists, as well as SETI enthusiasts, has been
held annually since 1983, but this is the first time their conference
has hosted the Best Ideas Awards.

"The earliest Best Ideas Awards went to authors for a particular book or
paper," stated Contact in Context editor Prof. Allen Tough. "Last year
we expanded our scope. We chose The SETI League's entire website because
it provides a nourishing forum for fresh bold ideas. This year we chose
an entire conference." He then recognized Funaro and Hagen for their two
decades of dedication and leadership, as founders and organizers of the
popular CONTACT meetings. "The annual CONTACT conference is the best
conference on this planet as a forum for innovative new ideas related to
SETI and contact," noted Tough.

Nordley, a real-life rocket scientist, publishes extensively in the
technical literature under his own name, and writes science fiction
under the thinly disguised pseudonym of G. David Nordley. He received
the journal's first Lifetime Achievement Award, for his extensive body
of work in support of the efforts to achieve interstellar contact. Over
the years, Nordley has produced poetry and paintings as well as
technical articles, short stories, and a book. "He is widely known for
his prompt, precise, blunt email messages whenever he detects thinking
that is sloppy, unduly narrow, or short-term. He makes us think big,"
said Tough.

Largely using radio telescopes and optical telescopes, SETI scientists
seek to determine whether humankind is alone in the universe. Since
Congress terminated NASA's SETI funding in 1993, The SETI League and
other scientific groups have privatized the research. Amateur and
professional scientists interested in participating in the search for
intelligent alien life, and citizens wishing to help support it, should
email join @ setileague.org, check the SETI League Web site at
http://www.setileague.org/, send a fax to +1 (201) 641-1771, or contact
The SETI League, Inc. membership hotline at +1 (800) TAU-SETI. Be sure
to provide us with a postal address to which we will mail further
information. The SETI League, Inc. is a membership-supported, non-profit
[501(c)(3)], educational and scientific corporation dedicated to the
scientific Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence.

P.S. Tearsheets are always appreciated. Thank you.

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-- 
H. Paul Shuch, Ph.D.    Executive Director, The SETI League, Inc.
433 Liberty Street, PO Box 555, Little Ferry NJ 07643 USA
voice (201) 641-1770;  fax (201) 641-1771; URL http://www.setileague.org
email work: n6tx_at_setileague.org;  home: drseti_at_cal.berkeley.edu
"We Know We're Not Alone!"

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