“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 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…
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…
WHAT: NW Noggin @ Sunnyside Environmental School We did it! WHERE: Sunnyside Environmental School, 3421 SE Salmon St, Portland, OR 97214 WHEN: Tuesday, April 23, 9:30am – 12:15pm Contacts: Asa Gervich & Jeremy Thomas, 4th Grade Teachers, Sunnyside School We are thrilled to return LIVE to Jeremy and Asa’s lively classrooms…
WHAT: NW Noggin @ Sunnyside Environmental School We did it!! WHERE: Sunnyside Environmental School, 3421 SE Salmon St, Portland, OR 97214 WHEN: Thursday, April 18, noon – 3:00pm Contacts: Asa Gervich & Jeremy Thomas, 4th Grade Teachers, Sunnyside School We are thrilled to return LIVE to Jeremy and Asa’s lively classrooms…
We love Sunnyside Environmental School in gorgeous, inner Southeast Portland, Oregon! We’ve been visiting Jeremy Thomas and Asa Gervich’s 4th grade classes there for several years. LEARN MORE: How to visit public schools LEARN MORE: Thank You Northwest Noggin! LEARN MORE: A crayon in Homer’s brain LEARN MORE: What about…
Post by Chaya Krieg, undergraduate in Psychology pursuing an Interdisciplinary Neuroscience minor at Portland State University. Chaya is working in Dr. Andy Mashburn’s lab, contributing to The Mindfulness Pre-K Project at PSU. Growing up I never saw myself going to college, let alone studying Psychology and Interdisciplinary Neuroscience. So when…