What it’s like to work in a computational lab and opportunities for entering into research

A research perspective piece by Nancy MacKenzie, undergraduate in Biomedical Physics and Interdisciplinary Neuroscience at Portland State University How did I get here? I am in the final year of my biomedical physics BS and minor in interdisciplinary neuroscience at PSU. I am also a BUILD EXITO scholar. I have…

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“Branches of the same tree”

Post by Yasaman Farhand, undergraduate in Science and Interdisciplinary Neuroscience at Portland State University. Yasaman has contributed to multiple outreach visits to K-12 public classrooms and at the annual NogginFest through nwnoggin.org. “I like crossing the imaginary boundaries people set up between different fields – it’s very refreshing.” — Maryam Mirzakhani…

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Hope through Change

Post by Tira Gaston and Britta Harbury, undergraduates in Psychology and Interdisciplinary Neuroscience at Portland State University, and Bill Griesar. Tira and Britta have participated in multiple outreach visits through nwnoggin.org. This week, NW Noggin returned to the amazing Bridges to Pathways Residential Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center in historic…

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The Classroom is like a Brain

Post by Lauren Kuiper, undergraduate in Psychology and Interdisciplinary Neuroscience at Portland State University. “The brain struggling to understand the brain is society trying to explain itself.” — Colin Blakemore The time we have spent in the classrooms at various elementary schools in the Portland and Vancouver area has been a…

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How do you find a job in a lab?

Post by Bradley Marxmiller, undergraduate in Biology and Interdisciplinary Neuroscience at Portland State University. Bradley followed up this post with more details on his experience in Dr. Atheir Abbas’s lab at the Portland VA Hospital/OHSU: Learning with Light. The most common question I get from fellow students interested in science…

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We love SUN!

At Northwest Noggin we got our start way back in 2012 with our first all volunteer summer program. We were poorly paid adjuncts in neuroscience and art, and programs like these were out of reach for our own kids. Portland’s huge Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) ran popular…

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Awestruck and Humbled Amazement

Post by Annabella (Bella) Showerman, undergraduate Psychology major and interdisciplinary neuroscience minor at Portland State University. Many who aspire to study the brain are fascinated with what makes us who we are and why we do the things that we do. I have always been drawn to neuroscience for this very…

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¡Ser bilingüe es maravilloso!

Escrito por Lidia Echeverria-Garcia y Ziru Bolen, estudiantes de posgrado bilingües, Ciencias y Trastornos de Comunicación, Universidad de Oregón. LEARN MORE: 双语很酷! LEARN MORE: Bilingualism is Cool! Muchos niños aprenden dos lenguajes desde temprana edad o después de empezar la escuela. Estos niños son considerados bilingües. Seguido familias preguntan si sus…

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双语很酷!

文章由俄勒冈大学言语病理学的双语临床研究生–莉迪亚·埃切维里亚-加西亚 和 姚子茹撰写。 LEARN MORE: ¡Ser bilingüe es maravilloso! LEARN MORE: Bilingualism is Cool! 在您阅读完文章后,请点击此链接填写调查问卷,非常感谢! 参加调查问卷 很多儿童在幼儿或上学时期会学习两种语言,这些孩子被称为“双语者”。许多家庭会质疑他们的孩子会不会因为学习双语而产生困惑? 答案是不会。因为孩子从小就自然而然地知道语言之间的不同。虽然他们说话时可能会混用两种语言,但不必担心,这是完全正常、自然的。 LEARN MORE: Bilingualism in the Early Years: What the Science Says 成为一名双语者有很多好处。双语儿童可能拥有更强的记忆力、注意力、规划能力以及更灵活的思维。拥有两种语言或以上的大脑会锻炼更多的认知技能。此外,会双语的儿童可以与只会说一点英语的家人和社区建立并保持牢固的关系。双语儿童在美国有更多的机会!他们在未来可能有更多的工作机会! LEARN MORE: Bilingual Effects in the Brain LEARN MORE: The Developing Bilingual Brain: What Parents and Teachers Should Know and Do LEARN MORE: The…

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Bilingualism is Cool!

Post by Lidia Echeverria-Garcia and Ziru Bolen, Bilingual Graduate Student Clinicians, Communication Disorders & Sciences, University of Oregon. LEARN MORE: 双语很酷! LEARN MORE: ¡Ser bilingüe es maravilloso! TAKE THE SURVEY Please click on the link to take this survey when you finished reading the blog post – thank you! Many…

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