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Gray Matters @ This Moment @ PSU!

January 13, 2022 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

WHAT: Gray Matters @ This Moment!

We did it!

WATCH HERE: @ This Moment: Gray Matters

WHERE: Portland State University Online Webinar (REGISTER HERE)

WHEN: Thursday, January 13, 4 – 5pm (Pacific)

Please join us for a conversation about how PSU is working alongside community partners to bring neuroscience research and philosophy into K-12 schools.

We’ll be joined by:

-Neuroscientist Bill Griesar and artist Jeff Leake, psychology faculty and co-founders of NW Noggin, a volunteer-run nonprofit that brings science and art into schools
-Undergraduate NW Noggin volunteers Britta Harbury and Sienna Morris
-Alex Sager, professor and chair of philosophy who founded the Oregon High School Ethics Bowl and developed a senior capstone that brings philosophy to children in grades 1-8
-Travis Eddy, a middle school teacher at the Ivy School, a public charter Montessori in Portland that has been working with the Philosophy Department since 2014
-Jolie Gentzkow-Foster ’21, a philosophy graduate who was a student in the capstone and served as a TA for the Philosophy Summer Camp

PRESENTATION SLIDES (PPT): At This Moment PSU 2022

PRESENTATION SLIDES (PDF): At This Moment PSU 2022

Details

Date:
January 13, 2022
Time:
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm