Frank Drake Award Gala

Please join members of the Board, many of the scientists, and supporters of the SETI Institute at the
The 2025 Frank Drake Award Ceremonies

(from 6:30 - 9:00 pm, with special guests and commentary for those joining us on line.)

For those coming in person, your ticket includes a cocktail reception, a gala seated dinner, special activities, and a chance to rub elbows with some of the leaders in the search for life in the universe.  Among them will be Institute founder Dr. Jill Tarter; Board member Avery Wang, the key developer of the Shazam music app; science writer Nadia Drake; Apple Senior Vice President, John Giannandrea; SETI scientist Seth Shostak, and many others.

The Drake Award, honoring the Father of SETI, Frank Drake, is the world's premier prize highlighting the science that helps us understand the prevalence of life in the cosmos. This year’s winners are both pioneers in our understanding of how life on Earth began. Dr. David Deamer (U of California, Santa Cruz) has proposed that life may have begun in fresh-water hot-springs and not the oceans, and has suggested a mechanism by which cell membranes might have originated.  Dr. John Baross (U of Washington) is a world leader in our understanding of life in extreme environments and one of the originators of the field of astrobiology.
 
Past winners of the Drake Award include Nobel Laureate Charles Townes, planet modeler Victoria Meadows, Kepler Mission leader William Borucki, Harvard’s Paul Horowitz, and the late Frank Drake himself.
 
For more information, and to reserve tickets, go to: https://drakeaward.seti.org/