Due to a loss of both state and federal budget cuts at the University of California Berkley, the university had to withdraw some of its support of the The Allen Telescope Array used by SETI scientists to monitor signals from outer space SETI principal investigator Franck Marchis revealed on his blog. According to CNN, the array will go back up in 2013, and it’s not the only array that SETI uses to collect transmissions.
(via Anthropunk)
From http://technoccult.net/archives/2011/04/26/seti-temporarily-shuts-down-one-of-its-telescope-arrays/