SETI Institute as a model for managing interdisciplinary science

This paper addresses how the elements of the SETI Institute have come together across science, education, public outreach, media, policy, and societal issues, and where the Institute is going with this approach. SETI-and in particular, the SETI Institute-offers a noteworthy example for other interdisciplinary sciences to follow. The paper will provide the author's perspective on how this happened-what the driving factors were, and will be, for the SETI Institute.