Sara Seager, a staff scientist in the Astronomy Group at DTM, delivered the first in a series of lectures at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum (NASM) in early in March. The lectures series is a continuation of the NASM Exploring Space program, focuses on "New Strategies for Detecting Life in the Universe" and features four speakers discussing their work and how it is being affected by advancing technologies. Seager's talk surveyed the search for Earth-like extrasolar planets, with a particular focus on NASA's Terrestrial Planet Finder visible-wavelength telescope, which is currently in early stages of design. In addition, Seager will be presenting the Bok Prize lecture at Harvard later this month. The Bok Prize is awarded biannually to a recent Ph.D. recipient from the Harvard Astronomy Department who is under the age of 35. This year Seager shares the prize with David Charbonneau of the California Institute of Technology. Seager's talk will be titled: "Towards a Physical Characterization of Extrasolar Planets."