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Michale Fee and Fan Wang Elected to the National Academy of Sciences

Two McGovern neuroscientists are among six MIT faculty members selected this year to join the academy.

Categories: Cellular & Molecular Neuroscience, Michale Fee, Fan Wang, Announcements, Awards & Honors

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Michale Fee and Fan Wang Elected to the National Academy of Sciences

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A different reality

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Turning muscles into motors gives static organs new life

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Learning with audiobooks

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Brain circuit needed to incorporate new information may be linked to schizophrenia

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Three anesthesia drugs all have the same effect in the brain, MIT researchers find

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How the brain handles the “cocktail party problem”

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How the brain handles the “cocktail party problem”

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Liqun Luo named winner of the 2026 Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience

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Neurons receive precisely tailored teaching signals as we learn

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Feng Zhang inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame