Noggins in CHICAGO!

We did it!

NW Noggin collaborated with the Society for Social Neuroscience on their first ever Social Neuroscience Fair!

Action + Potential: From Social Neuroscience Fair, Chicago, Illinois!

Outreach Event for First University of Chicago Social Neuroscience Fair

Crafting our own brain cells in Chicago! LEARN MORE: NW Noggin STEAM Art Resources

We examined real human brains, created art, explored electrophysiology, discussed neuroscience research, and listened and learned at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry with over 500 K-12 students from Chicago Public Schools!

Brains! From the Social Neuroscience Fair, October 17, 2019, Chicago, Illinois.

Our volunteers from Portland State University, OHSU, and additional collaborators were again offered complimentary registration for the Society for Neuroscience conference, where they presented original outreach posters, talked with leading neuroscientists, made art at the International Museum of Surgical Science, and toured neuroanatomy labs at the University of Chicago!

Students raised many of the funds to participate themselves through the third annual Noggin Fest, a free public celebration of neuroscience, art, music and federally funded research!

LEARN MORE: Noggin Fest 2019!

Sincere thanks to S4SN, SfN, the Portland Alcohol Research Center, and Portland State University for supporting public arts-integrated STEM (STEAM) outreach and education – for all. 

LEARN MORE: Noggin @ Society for Social Neuroscience. 
LEARN MORE: Noggin @ Society for Neuroscience.

Reflections on Chicago

COMPLETE OUTREACH SCHEDULE: Noggins in Chicago!

Thank you Alaska Airlines for the complimentary Lush IPAs!

Thursday, October 17

8:30am – 10:00am: Breakfast with University of Chicago Neuroscience
11:00am – 1:30pm: Set up at Chicago Museum of Science & Industry

The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.

1:30pm – 4:00pm: Social Neuroscience Fair!

Thank you Yuri Sugano from University of Chicago for bringing some exceptional brains!

5:30pm – 6:45pm: Fireside Chat w/Dr. Vivek Murthy

Dr. Vivek Murthy, former U.S. Surgeon General, presenting on loneliness and community.
VIDEO: NW Noggin @ the First Annual Social Neuroscience Fair!

Friday, October 18

1:00pm – 4:00pm: Outreach at the International Museum of Surgical Science

Thank you Miranda Pettengill and Michelle Rinard for a warm welcome to a fascinating museum! (and thanks Miranda for supervising that leg amputation for Jeff!)

Society for Neuroscience opening night

Saturday, October 19

ALL DAY: SfN Conference attendance
12:00pm: SfN Theme J poster goes up

2:00pm – 2:30pm: SfN Brain Awareness Campaign Event poster set up
2:30pm – 4:00pm: SfN Brain Awareness Campaign Event!

OUTREACH @SfN: We brought BRAINS! Thank you Yuri Sugano from University of Chicago!
Expanding brain awareness through research, education, outreach and art: With SfN President Diane Lipscombe and SfN Public Education and Communication Committee Chair Francis Jensen at the Brain Awareness Campaign Event.
Noggin volunteer Aaron Eisen and Lynnie Fein-Schafer, SfN BrainFacts Outreach Associate, who helped arrange complimentary registration for our Noggin volunteers! Lynnie is holding the bipolar neuron that Aaron crafted for her…
No memorized Toastmasters-style marketing or rote “#scitalk elevator pitches” here 🙂
AGAIN: Thank you Yuri Sugano at University of Chicago for lending your amazing brains!
VIDEO: NW Noggin brings the brains to Brain Awareness!

Sunday, October 20

ALL DAY: SfN Conference attendance

9:00am – 10:00am: SfN Poster presentation: Theme J

Monday, October 21

9:30am – 3:00pm: Outreach to William Brown STEM Elementary School!
**CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE. LEARN MORE: CPS strike updates

Smaller class sizes, equitable resource sharing amongst district schools, living wages, later school start times, and availability of counselors: GOOD FOR ALL OUR BRAINS.

LEARN MORE: Health and Economic Benefits of Reducing the Number of Students per Classroom in US Primary Schools

LEARN MORE: The Tennessee study of class size in the early school grades

LEARN MORE: Inequality in Teaching and Schooling: How Opportunity Is Rationed to Students of Color in America

ADDED 11:00am – 1:00pm: Lab tour with Yuri Sugano, University of Chicago

Extraordinary neuroanatomy collection, and exquisite dissection skills!
Compelling specimen collection at the Biological Science Learning Center @ UChicago.
And we thought WE had brain buckets!
Visible temporal lobe atrophy in the brain of an individual who had Alzheimer’s disease.

8:00pm – 10:00pm: Oregon Neuroscience Reception

All Week: Community Engagement

ABOVE: Public Noggin outreach at Foxtrot Market and Off Color Brewing! Impromptu brain education in Ubers/Lyfts, coffee shops, breweries, galleries, at the Art Institute, by the Bean…
Noggin with Chicago social media bear Rodney Berrington at #Gallery6210…
Brains, beer & BrainFacts @ Motor Brewing…

LEARN MORE: Noggins & Kings

Great to see Katie Sale, Executive Director of the American Brain Coalition at Adams Street Brewery!

LEARN MORE: A Coalition of Noggins & Brains

Tuesday, October 22

Conference attendance; Travel home to Portland, Oregon

Has this neuron been characterized at the Allen Institute yet..? 🙂 NEW BOOK by Christof Koch, Chief Scientific Officer of the Allen Institute (with pipe cleaner brain cell, above!): The Feeling of Life Itself…
At the Art Institute of Chicago: Dendrites and Degas, Lobes and Lautrec, Cerebrums and Chagal. LEARN MORE (from Jeff Leake @ SfN 2015): Monet to Magritte, Contemplating Neuroscience at the Art Institute of Chicago
We love Chicago!
Though it’s always nice to come home…

LEARN MORE AT THE LINK…

Tennis Balls & Brains

Here are some of our outreach participants, funded by S4SN, SfN, the Portland Alcohol Research Center at OHSU, Portland State University, Noggin Fest 2019 – and NW Noggin…

Noggin Participants
1. Bill Griesar, Ph.D., NW Noggin, Portland State University, OHSU
2. Jeff Leake, M.F.A., NW Noggin, Portland State University
3. Aaron Manakai Eisen, PSU/NUNM
4. Mikah Brandes, PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO
5. Anita Randolph, OHSU
6. Madison Elizabeth Cho-Richmond, PSU
7. Maria D Galvan-Bravo, PSU
8. Camden Mikaela Grant-Howard, PSU
9. Albert Kiersarsky, PSU
10. Denesa Lockwood, OHSU
11. Jade Osilla, PSU/YouthLine

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