Where is NW Noggin?
NW Noggin is a locally sourced, 501(c)(3) ALL-VOLUNTEER shoestring nonprofit organization. Your tax-deductible contribution supports the purchase of sheep brains, pipe cleaners, electrodes and clay for innovative, arts-integrated outreach, and helps send volunteers from local universities (including Portland State University, OHSU, and other area institutions) to public school classrooms, conferences and free community events.
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NW Noggin: Art + Brains
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“You get me!” @ Creative Science
NW Noggin fielded another crowd of eager outreach volunteers for a day at Creative Science, a Portland Public “focus option” K-8 school where “students are encouraged to be independent thinkers, learners, and problem solvers…” LEARN MORE: Creative Science School We’d enjoyed another day of art and brains back in 2015,…
At risk of being risky: Teenage brains & Oregon’s Measure 11
Post by Emma Schifsky, Oregon Health & Science University Emma is a Research Assistant in the Fair Neuroimaging Lab at OHSU, and recently joined Noggin at the MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility for discussions with young people incarcerated under Oregon’s Measure 11. I enjoyed our visit to the MacLaren Youth Correctional…
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…
Noggin Fest 2018: The Beauty of the Brain
Post by Louis Sumrall, President, Portland State University Neuroscience Club We did it!! More Noggin Fest posts are coming soon…but please check out what this two day celebration of art, music & brain research helped support..! Synapsing in San Diego @ SfN! LEARN MORE: Nonprofit Noggins DOWNLOAD: Noggin Fest Press Release…
Corrections, Bias & Brains
What is it like to volunteer in an ADHD lab?
By Noah Trantel, undergraduate in Psychology, Portland State University For the past nine months, I have had the opportunity to volunteer at Oregon Health & Science University, in Joel Nigg’s lab, which focuses on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (or ADHD). ADHD is a commonly diagnosed neurological condition in adolescents, characterized by…
PSU, Noggin, OMSI & Brains!
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…
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…
The Trickster in Bone
We’re excited to continue our collaboration with Grande Ronde and Siletz tribal communities, and bring art and neuroscience outreach participants to Oregon’s Lincoln and Yamhill counties in October for a Spirit Mountain Community Fund supported effort to explore tantalizing connections between tales and brains with K-12 students, teachers, artists, storytellers…
Synapsing in San Diego
“I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back.” ―Maya Angelou.
Our AMAZING volunteers organized the largest all ages Art & Neuroscience Festival in the Pacific Northwest! We offered live bands, science-inspired art, neuroscience research presentations, and the chance to ask questions and examine real brains! The fifth annual Noggin Fest helped send more young scientists and artists to the Society for Neuroscience conference in San Diego - and into San Diego Unified Public Schools! LEARN MORE @ Brains Beyond SfN!.