Marcelo A. Wood, Chair and Professor of the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, has been being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Each new inductee to AAAS is selected based on their distinguished efforts to advance science and its application. Our new BioSci AAAS Fellow joins eight other colleagues from UCI who have received this distinguished honor for 2019. The honorees will be formally announced Nov. 29 in the AAAS News & Notes section of the journal Science. 

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