--- title: "MIT affiliates elected to National Academy of Sciences for 2026" url: https://daily.dev/posts/mit-affiliates-elected-to-national-academy-of-sciences-for-2026-ejvaktthu source_url: https://news.mit.edu/2026/mit-affiliates-elected-national-academy-sciences-0521 type: article source: "MIT News" published: 2026-05-21T20:06:28.098Z updated: 2026-05-21T20:06:49.410Z tags: ["mit"] reading_time: 9 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # MIT affiliates elected to National Academy of Sciences for 2026 **[MIT News](https://daily.dev/sources/mit)** · 9 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The National Academy of Sciences has elected 16 MIT affiliates for 2026, including six faculty members and 10 alumni. Faculty honorees are economist Bengt Holmström (Nobel laureate in contract theory), neuroscientist Michale Fee (birdsong and motor learning), mechanical engineer Gareth McKinley (rheology and complex fluids), chemist Keith Nelson (time-resolved optical studies), neuroscientist Fan Wang (brain-body circuits), and energy economist Catherine Wolfram (energy markets and climate policy). The NAS, founded in 1863, is one of the highest honors in science. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [MIT affiliates elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/mit-affiliates-elected-to-the-american-academy-of-arts-and-sciences-for-2026-f5yqwwliy) · MIT News · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [MIT community members elected to the National Academy of Engineering for 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/mit-community-members-elected-to-the-national-academy-of-engineering-for-2026-xvtzthf4n) · MIT News · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [MIT community members elected to the National Academy of Inventors for 2025](https://daily.dev/posts/mit-community-members-elected-to-the-national-academy-of-inventors-for-2025-cpl1rhtvj) · MIT News · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#mit](https://daily.dev/tags/mit) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/mit-affiliates-elected-to-national-academy-of-sciences-for-2026-ejvaktthu)