In the Spirit of Learning

NW Noggin recently collaborated with the Confederated Tribes of the Grande Ronde, the Oregon Pacific Area Health Education Center, the Native American Network at Intel, Siletz Valley School, and Amity and Willamina High Schools to bring 15 #sciart outreach volunteers (including undergraduate and graduate students from Portland State University, OHSU…

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Make + Think + Code

Making things, responding to what’s in front of you, thinking about your options, steps and consequences, and turning evolving ideas and data into instructions, illustrative stories and code for our rapidly progressing technologies are critical skills for teaching, research, science and art… “I do not think there is any thrill…

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Rosehip neurons in pipe cleaners!

An August 2018 paper in Nature Neuroscience reports the discovery of a new subtype of human cortical neuron with distinctive rose hip-shaped axon terminals… LEARN MORE: Transcriptomic and morphophysiological evidence for a specialized human cortical GABAergic cell type LEARN MORE: MEET THE ROSE HIP CELL, A NEW KIND OF NEURON This cell…

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