May 4, 2018

UW astrobiologist Victoria Meadows receives SETI Institute鈥檚 Frank Drake Award

, 天美影视传媒 professor of astronomy and leader of NASA鈥檚 UW-based (VPL), has been named recipient of the 2018 Frank Drake Award from the SETI Institute. She is the first woman to receive the award.

The mission of the nonprofit , founded in 1984, is to 鈥渆xplore, understand and explain the origin and nature of life in the universe.鈥� The Frank Drake award is named for the pioneering astronomer who in 1961 created the , which addressed the relative likelihood of advanced civilizations in space. Many view the equation still as a road map for astrobiology.

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