Oregon Health & Science University

Graduate students in Behavioral Neuroscience and Neuroscience at OHSU are encouraged and welcome to participate in various outreach activities, in winter term at Portland State University as part of a teaching practicum course, and throughout the year in area public schools…

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A regularly updated summary of our outreach visits and activities, with an emphasis on the science presented, and the arts projects designed to educate students and the public about research exploring the link between brain and behavior…

LEARN MORE:  Calendar of Events
What’s next on our schedule?  How can you get involved?

Graduate students may also join ongoing advanced undergraduate neuroscience classes at PSU by enrolling in a graduate teaching practicum course at OHSU (BEHN 650) in winter.

The DRAFT BEHN 650 syllabus for 2021 can be found here.
SYLLABUS BEHN 650 Practicum 2021

The BEHN 650 syllabus for 2020 can be found here.
SYLLABUS BEHN 650 Practicum 2020

The BEHN 650 syllabus for 2019 can be found here.
SYLLABUS BEHN 650 Practicum 2019

The BEHN 650 syllabus for 2018 can be found here.
SYLLABUS BEHN 650 Practicum 2018

OHSU grad students

OHSU graduate students acquire valuable undergraduate teaching skills by preparing short mini-courses covering ongoing research on a topic of their choice (e.g., drug dependence and abuse, learning and memory, adolescent brain development, imaging techniques, epigenetics), and by introducing advanced PSU undergraduates to currently funded work.

Our 2021 course will be remote, and offers a tremendous opportunity to develop skills in online teaching. The DRAFT undergraduate syllabus for Portland State University is available here:
SYLLABUS Advanced Neuro PSU 2021

Past syllabus (2020): SYLLABUS Advanced Neuro PSU 2020
Past syllabus (2019): SYLLABUS Advanced Neuro PSU 2019
Past syllabus (2018):  SYLLABUS Advanced Neuro PSU 2018
Past syllabus (2017):  SYLLABUS Advanced Neuro PSU 2017
Past syllabus (2016):  SYLLABUS Advanced Neuro PSU 2016

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For more information on how to enroll in this practicum, and how to complete and submit the required Teaching Activity Approval forms, please read through the BEHN 650 syllabus above.

Please contact Erica Hankins-Regalo (BSNGradStudies@ohsu.edu) in Behavioral Neuroscience to formally enroll. Please email Bill Griesar at griesar@pdx.edu to confirm your interest in participating…

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Graduate students are also encouraged to participate in neuroscience outreach efforts in area public schools.

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Throughout the year you can help supervise and mentor undergraduates, and help design and deliver high quality, creative, arts-integrated, collaboratively developed neuroscience programs to academic priority K-12 students in our community…

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Whenever you get involved, students get excited about science, learn about their own developing brains, and see how to keep learning if this topic grabs them, from college to graduate school to jobs in teaching and research. And you gain useful real world experience designing academic curricula, teaching students, and working directly with school professionals, undergraduates and kids..!

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In summer 2016, volunteers worked with 150 high school juniors at Skyview High School in Vancouver, and introduced them to neurons and networks, supervised sheep brain dissections, and accompanied them to OHSU’s imaging labs, the Portland Art Museum, and the Oregon National Primate Research Center…

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In summer 2015, our volunteers developed two middle school courses (at Sabin K-8 and Jason Lee K-8, in Portland Public Schools), one elementary and middle school program (at the Boys & Girls Club in Vancouver), and one WSU Vancouver-based high school outreach effort, through the MESA (Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement) program in Vancouver and Evergreen Public Schools

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In 2016 we even brought 26 graduate and undergraduate volunteers (including four teaching/outreach participants from OHSU) to Washington DC, to teach and present on their NW Noggin experiences in Congress, the White House, the NIH, and at “Neuroscience Night” at the Phillips Collection!

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We followed up with another series of DC area school visits in fall 2017, where we also made brain-related art with 30,000 neuroscientists at the Society for Neuroscience conference, and again presented brains and art during a briefing with members of Congress and Congressional staff.

LEARN MORE: From classrooms to Congress!

More outreach at SfN in San Diego in 2018…

Synapsing in San Diego @ SfN!

And Chicago in 2019! 

LEARN MORE: Noggin @ Chicago S4SN Social Neuroscience Fair!

LEARN MORE: Society for Neuroscience conference 2019

Anita Randolph (randolpa@ohsu.edu) is the current Noggin Resource Council member for OHSU. Interested students should also contact Bill Griesar at griesar@pdx.edu…

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Graduate students are also highly encouraged to present a public lecture on their research. For several years, these were offered at Velo Cult, a bicycle shop/event space/pub in NE Portland!

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Now we’re at Floyd’s Old Town!

LEARN MORE: Free Art & Science Talks

We pair each graduate speaker with an artist or art student, and you both gain unique, creative experience collaborating across disciplines and introducing your work to the general public.

To learn about a few past presentations by OHSU participants, please click on the links below…

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Drink Together, Stay Together?

Changing Brain Waves of Depression

Drunk mice on espresso – what could go wrong?

The Science of Six Pack @ Velo

Your brain is plastic @ Velo!

Mushrooms and Meth @ Velo!

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A Zombie Feast: Imaging Brains @ Velo!

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I Feel Your Pain @ Velo!

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Your creative, lying brain – at Velo!

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Waltzing Mice @ Velo!

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Interested in getting involved with NW Noggin? 

NW Noggin is very active in the community throughout the year, and if you are interested in finding out more about participating, please contact our Resource Council Member for Communications Aaron Eisen (aaeisen.pdx@gmail.com) and instructors Bill Griesar (griesar@pdx.edu) & Jeff Leake (jleake@pdx.edu) to confirm that you are on our list for upcoming events… 

Thank you for your enthusiasm & Cheers!

FOR ALL OUTREACH PARTICIPANTS:
We are committed to creating and fostering a learning and working environment based on open communication and mutual respect.  We have an extraordinarily diverse K-12 student population, and a diverse community of teachers as well. We expect volunteers to be respectful and welcoming of difference, including differences involving race, color, religion, age, national origin or ancestry, veteran or military status, sex, marital status, pregnancy or parenting status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.  Inappropriate behavior is unacceptable, and will result in removal from NW Noggin activities…

Please help everyone feel valued as full, respected participants in our teaching and learning communities – this is key to successful outreach…

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