“Look for the helpers.” –Fred Rogers Neurons get the limelight, typically, in college textbooks, courses and even quite often in pipe cleaner form – but there are billions of non-neural cells that contribute to our brain’s cellular community – the glia! LEARN MORE: Glia as architects of central nervous system…
Post by Conner Corbett, Psychology/Interdisciplinary Neuroscience graduate from Portland State University, Clinical Research Assistant at Oregon Health & Science University, PSU Neuroscience Club Alumni Advisor, and recipient of a 2024 NW Noggin Glial Grant. Funding and Politics Before you go to graduate school, please know this: funding and the university…
Post by Natalie Robison (she/her), undergraduate in Biology at Portland State University pursuing an Interdisciplinary Neuroscience minor. Did you know that, by some measures, a brain has just as many glial cells as it does neurons? LEARN MORE: The search for true numbers of neurons and glial cells in the…
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“There are billions of neurons in our brains, but what are neurons? Just cells. The brain has no knowledge until connections are made between neurons. All that we know, all that we are, comes from the way our neurons are connected.” – Tim Berners-Lee We’ve had so many outreach events…
We brought a crowd of eager volunteers – along with art supplies, including plants, grasses and vibrant mosses from local gardens – to the STEAM-focused Gardner School of Arts and Sciences, in a bucolic neighborhood of Salmon Creek, Washington… LEARN MORE: From STEM to STEAM: Science and Art Go Hand-in-Hand Sulema Rodriguez and…
Post by Jennifer Logan, Honors undergraduate in Psychology and Indigenous Nations and Native American Studies pursuing an Interdisciplinary Neuroscience minor at Portland State University. Jennifer is a regular volunteer participant in outreach through Northwest Noggin. We enjoyed an afternoon with curious 4th graders at Sunnyside Environmental School this fall, making…
Post by Holly Parrish, undergraduate in Psychology and minor in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience at Portland State University. Holly volunteers as a clinical research intern for the Nuvox2 study in a clinical research lab at the Center for Neurosciences Tucson in Arizona. My name is Holly Parrish, and I am a senior…
WHAT: NW Noggin @ Sunnyside Environmental School We did it! (while PSU goes around threatening to fire teachers 😬) WHERE: Sunnyside Environmental School, 3421 SE Salmon St, Portland, OR 97214 WHEN: Tuesday, October 22, 12:45 – 3:15pm! Contacts: Asa Gervich & Jeremy Thomas, 4th Grade Teachers, Sunnyside School We are thrilled…
On a sunny, flowering, pollen-dense spring day, eighteen Noggin volunteers from Portland State University happily converged on Sunnyside Environmental School in southeast Portland. The school was bursting with activity, as students, teachers and staff were readying plants for a sale, while we carried in our pipe cleaner astrocytes, cerebellar granule…