“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.” ― Louise Erdrich UPDATE (3/2021): We are so excited to return to Siletz next fall, for a potentially live, in person…
“Haven’t you ever thought of living unconsciously like bears, sniffing the earth, close to pears and the mossy dark, far from human voices and fire?” – On İbrahim Balaban’s Painting “Spring” ― Nâzım Hikmet Black bear skull on Bradley Hill, Oregon Earlier this year, thanks to Wayne Sherrard of Wayne’s Taxidermy…
Post compiled by Jesse Benefiel, Vice President, PSU Neuroscience Club It’s easy to look at the mechanics of neuroscience and wonder how working scientists do it. Analyzing what those quadrillion synapses mean, studying exceedingly complex systems, using – dare I say it – math; it’s not exactly what everyone might…
“We will be known forever by the tracks we leave” – Santee Sioux Tribe In this post, you will find… Brains vs. computers Your neurons are unusual cells! A “Moore’s Law” for brains? Native history, artists – and ART!! Kanani Miyamoto on Native artists at Intel Intel volunteers make FIFTY…
Post written by Kayla Townsley, OHSU (a recent graduate of Portland State University and an NIH BUILD EXITO scholar) “Hunger only for a taste of justice Hunger only for a world of truth” –Tracy Chapman, All That You Have Is Your Soul When I walked through the doors of the MacLaren…
Post by Sulema Rodriguez, Portland State University/NIH BUILD EXITO, Noggin Resource Council member for NIH BUILD EXITO It has been about three months since my return from my NIH internship in Bethesda, Maryland. As I type this, my mind fills up with a plethora of ideas, thoughts, and emotions. Since I…
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Post by David Jacobs, Behavioral Neuroscience, OHSU Neuroscience gets more complicated every day and the media does not always paint a detailed or accurate portrayal of what is being discovered. Thinking critically is a pivotal part of the scientific process, but the public is not always offered ways to assess…
Post by Louis Sumrall, President, Portland State University Neuroscience Club This month, we (the PSU Neuro Club + NW Noggin) traveled to San Diego to the enormous convention center to present our own posters, attend symposia on cutting edge neuroscience, talk with the cool schools there about their work, make…
Robots, earthquakes, infrared technology, math games, slime, and more came to Meriwether Lewis Elementary School in Portland last month – along with some Noggin brains! Susan Rosenkranz, a medical anthropologist, graphic designer and Lewis parent organized the school’s first Sciencepalooza, a new PTA sponsored event featuring interactive STEAM based activities…