[3] Basor earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1969, and completed a Ph.D. there in 1975.
[3] Her dissertation, supervised by Harold Widom, was Asymptotic Formulas for Toeplitz Determinants.
[3][2] She served as an American Mathematical Society Council member at large from 2011 to 2013.
[5] At Cal Poly, she was the 2005 winner of the Distinguished Research, Creative Activity and Professional Development Award, and a colloquium in her and professor Rami Shani’s honor was held in 2006.
[7] Basor's husband,[8] Kent E. Morrison, is also a mathematician who went to school with her at Santa Cruz, worked with her at Cal Poly, and is now associated with the American Institute of Mathematics.