Post by Jordan Ray, Portland State University “Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.” –Vincent Van Gogh This week we drove south to the Willamette Valley city of Woodburn, Oregon, where the annual Fiesta Mexicana was…
Post by volunteer Ashley Keates, Portland State University As a recent graduate in Psychology from Portland State University, I’m committed to our school’s motto, “Let Knowledge Serve the City.” As an undergraduate volunteer with NW Noggin, I’ve made pipe cleaner neurons in urban K-12 classrooms, introduced real human brains while cradling…
Post by Jacob Schoen, OHSU Oregon National Primate Research Center “Man was the storytelling animal, the only creature on earth that told itself stories to understand what kind of creature it was. The story was his birthright, and nobody could take it away.” –Salman Rushdie Only humans..? One message that…
“If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive. That is why we put these stories in each other’s memories. This is how people care for themselves.” –Barry Lopez…
Post and pictures by Denesa Lockwood Oberbeck, OHSU/NW Noggin Board “Home of the Seagulls!” Today we visited a 3rd grade classroom at Lakeshore Elementary School in Vancouver, Washington. Our enthusiastic volunteers included Denesa Lockwood of OHSU, Iris Gutierrez, Ruth Marigomen and Anthony Almonte from WSU, and Joey Seuferling, our Noggin Resource Council member…
“It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.” –Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles Native stories are often seasonal, and those who closely observe fellow denizens of our natural world tell instructive tales, and create dances and songs relating the…
Post by Jesse Hamlin, NW Noggin Resource Council member for music and performance. Jesse is a Portland State University undergraduate in Psychology and completed this work as part of his honors thesis. He also organized Noggin Fest in fall, 2017, which helped bring 21 volunteers to Washington DC to present…
“To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself” –Simone de Beauvoir When you look at yourself in the mirror, what do you see? The perception of your body is complex, integrating detection of touch, muscle stretch, joint position, visceral activities, acceleration, balance, metabolism – and of course…
“Our national obsession with test scores as the measure of school quality has not only not produced progress, but it is breaking our public school system apart. We have had a decade and a half of this misguided focus. It must stop.” –Carol Burris, Executive Director of the Network for…
We love Brain Awareness Season, a popular winter/spring series of neuroscience activities and events. NW Noggin is honored to partner with the Dana Foundation, a leading philanthropic organization that first established Brain Awareness Week, and supports research through grants, publications, and programs. LEARN MORE: Brain Awareness Week (BAW) is the global campaign to increase public…