Searching for Signs of Intelligent Life

NASA has named the five recipients of it 2013 Carl Sagan Exoplanet Postdoctoral Fellowships. Charles Beichman, executive director of the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, explains: "In the past decade, astronomers have made incredible progress toward Carl Sagan's goal of understanding the existence of life, and ultimately, of intelligent life throughout the universe. The young scientists named as this year's Sagan Fellows will help to make dramatic new progress toward this goal through their observational, theoretical and instrumental contributions." Here are bios of the recipients and information about their projects: http://nexsci.caltech.edu/sagan/2013postdocRecipients.shtml