Two Women Scholars at the University of California, Irvine Win Awards From the National Academy of Sciences

Two women scholars from the University of California, Irvine have been chosen for major awards from the National Academy of Sciences.

Barbara Dosher, the Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Sciences, will share the Atkinson Prize in Psychological & Cognitive Sciences with Professor Richard Shiffrin of Indiana University. Professor Dosher is being honored for her groundbreaking research on human memory, attention, and learning. She will receive a $100,000 prize.

Professor Dosher joined the faculty at the University of California, Irvine in 1992 after teaching for 15 years at Columbia University in New York City. She is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego, where she majored in psychology. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of Oregon.

Etel Solingen, who holds the Thomas T. and Elizabeth C. Tierney Chair in Global Peace & Conflict Studies, was selected to receive the William & Katherine Estes Award from the National Academy of Sciences. She is being honored for her research on nuclear proliferation. Dr. Solingen will receive $20,000.

Professor Solingen is the author of Nuclear Logics: Contrasting Paths in East Asia & the Middle East (Princeton University Press, 2007). She is the former president of the International Studies Association. Professor Solingen joined the faculty at the University of California, Irvine in 1989. She holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in political science and international relations from Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Dr. Solingen earned a second master’s degree and a Ph.D. at the University of California, Los Angeles.