UC Irvine professors Thomas Carew, Donald Saari, Henry Samueli and Douglas Wallace have been named 2004 fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
The UCI faculty members are among 178 new fellows and 24 new foreign honorary members elected to AAAS. The 223-year-old academy is composed of scholars, scientists, academics and business people. Newly elected fellows are selected through a highly competitive process that recognizes those who have made preeminent contributions to their disciplines.
With this year’s announcement, there are 32 AAAS members at UCI.
About the 2004 fellows:
- Thomas Carew is chair of UCI’s Department of Neurobiology and Behavior and Donald Bren Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior. Carew is a pioneer in the field known as the cellular biology of learning, which combines the disciplines of psychology and neurobiology. Carew has received numerous honors for his achievements, including the 1990 National Institute of Mental Health’s MERIT Award. He is an elected member of the Society of Experimental Psychology and has been honored as a distinguished science lecturer by the American Psychological Association. He received the 1990 Yale College Dylan Hixon Prize for Excellence in Teaching the Natural Sciences.
- Donald Saari is Distinguished Professor of Economics and Mathematics. Saari is recognized for his important contributions to the social sciences. His research employs mathematical models to analyze a wide variety of social and economic phenomena – politics, markets and intraorganizational behavior. Through his discoveries on how people vote, he has emerged as a leading critic of the American electoral process. His work in mathematical economics has revealed a new understanding of economic principles such as incentive, supply and demand. Among his previous honors is election in 2001 to the National Academy of Sciences.
- Henry Samueli is an adjunct professor in electrical engineering and computer science. Samueli is a co-founder and chairman of Irvine-based Broadcom Corp., a leading provider of semiconductors that enable the digital transmission of voice, data and video content for home and business applications. He is also Broadcom’s chief technical officer and is responsible for the company’s research and development activities. Samueli serves on the Board of Trustees of The UCI Foundation, as a board member of the engineering school’s Corporate Affiliates Program, and as vice chair of the UCI Chief Executive Roundtable. In 1999, the UCI engineering school was named The Henry Samueli School of Engineering, and in 2000 he was honored with the UC Presidential Medal — the highest system-wide honor the University of California can bestow.
- Douglas Wallace is the Donald Bren Professor of Biological Sciences and Molecular Medicine. Wallace is one of the world‘s leading geneticists, whose work ranges from tracing the origins of the human species to finding the causes of degenerative diseases, cancer and aging. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, Wallace in 1994 received the William Allan Award, the American Society of Human Genetics’ highest recognition for contributions to human genetics. He also has shared the Passano Award 2000 for mitochondrial genetics and received the 2000 Metropolitan Life Foundation Research Award for Medical Research in Alzheimer’s Disease. He is director of the UCI Center for Molecular and Mitochondrial Medicine and Genetics.
Current UCI faculty members previously elected to AAAS include: Francisco Ayala, Albert Bennett, Roy Britten, Chancellor Ralph J. Cicerone, William Daughaday, Jacques Derrida, Igor Dzyaloshinskii, David Easton, Walter Fitch, Bernard Grofman, Ping-ti Ho, Wolfgang Iser, Elizabeth Loftus, R. Duncan Luce, Penelope Maddy, David Malament, James McGaugh, Ricardo Miledi, J. Hillis Miller, Masayasu Nomura, Larry Overman, J.W. Peltason, A. Kimball Romney, F. Sherwood Rowland, Brian Skyrms, Colin Slim, George Sperling and Robin Williams.
ABOUT THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: The academy was founded in 1780 by John Adams, James Bowdoin, John Hancock and other scholar-patriots “to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people.� Past academy members include George Washington and Ben Franklin in the eighteenth century, Daniel Webster and Ralph Waldo Emerson in the nineteenth, and Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill in the twentieth. The unique structure of the American Academy allows the academy to conduct interdisciplinary studies on international security, social policy, education, and the humanities that draw on the range of academic and intellectual disciplines of its members. The current membership of over 4,500 includes more than 150 Nobel laureates and 50 Pulitzer Prize winners.
About the University of California, Irvine: The University of California, Irvine is a top-ranked public university dedicated to research, scholarship and community. Founded in 1965, UCI is among the fastest-growing University of California campuses, with approximately 24,000 undergraduate and graduate students and about 1,300 faculty members. The third-largest employer in dynamic Orange County, UCI contributes an annual economic impact of $3 billion.
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