Our Northwest Noggin undergraduate and graduate outreach volunteers are both enthusiastic and informed, and regularly let knowledge serve by going places and listening to the questions and interests of community members in urban and rural K-12 public schools, coffee shops, correctional facilities, houseless youth nonprofits, research conferences and more!
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So what is it like to do outreach?
We regularly explore topics in neuroscience research and write up posts that describe where we went, what we discussed, the art we made and the scientific studies that we brought up in classrooms and other public spaces. You can learn more about these experiences at the link!
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LEARN MORE: Noggin Bloggin
At Portland State University, undergraduates pursuing an interdisciplinary neuroscience minor often choose to write their own posts about their extensive outreach experiences, and we’ve gathered those for you to enjoy here.
Learn more at the links below!
Flex Your Muscles … and Your Brain!
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Why do we think too hard?
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It’s Not Me, It’s My Amygdala!
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Let it Shine!
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Déja Vu, Dreams, and Mechanisms of Memory
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Character Building (literally!) on the Coast
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Pre-school behaviors – in the brain!
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Is stress ever good?
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Your Invisible Sixth Sense
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Brains Love Animals
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How fast can you go?
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Synapses to Shares
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Always Room for Growth
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Traversing tricky topics through outreach
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Making art and making brains
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Fentanyl On The Brain
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Why does my brain FREEZE?!
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A Dive Into Habits
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Multilingual Brains!
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Countering ACEs
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Can music orchestrate emotional intelligence?
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Aspiring to Assist
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How does Narcan save a life?
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Did school kill my brain?
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Neuron Hats!
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The Science of Sociability
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The Art & Science of Nostalgia
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The Magic of Music
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How did we get the brain?
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When I Grow Up: Learning, Memory, and LTP
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Wrestling with Expectations, and Brains
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A neurosymphony of skills!
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Your Inner Worm Bin
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Hey Vancouver: Let Kids Sleep!
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Students & Stories : Tales of Acquired Brains
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King Cortex!
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Neuroscience for all: Creating a Brain Brochure
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Sleepy brains at Fort
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Papier-Mâché: Shaping Our Brain
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Billions of Brain Cells
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Nostalgia and BRAINS!
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“What makes people struggle?”
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“Branches of the same tree”
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Hope through Change
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The Classroom is like a Brain
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Awestruck and Humbled Amazement
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¡Ser bilingüe es maravilloso!
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Enamored by Neuroscience!
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Art, brains & GUTS at Ogden!
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Moving beyond paywalls and jargon
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Lightning in a Berry
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Gathertown, Gathertown en ervaar het verhaal van de Nederlandse Noggin
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The Qualia in Chromesthesia
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Tik Tok: Welcoming undergraduate researchers in new ways
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Brains With Little Brains
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Who’s really good at asking “why?”
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