Our own Jeff Leake, co-founder and Arts Coordinator for NW Noggin, an Instructor in University Studies and Psychology at Portland State University, a Teacher Advisory Council member for the Portland Art Museum and an accomplished artist and co-owner of Portland’s Gallery 114 has won a prestigious international art award known…
Post by Michael Deveney, Noggin volunteer from Portland State University First of all, the OHSU Brain Fair at the Oregon Museum of Science & Industry (OMSI) was AWESOME! I had a blast and I look forward to helping more in the future. Thank you for this opportunity. LEARN MORE: Putting…
We enthusiastically returned to one of the nation’s largest Brain Fairs on Saturday at the Oregon Museum of Science & Industry (OMSI) to continue our vigorous efforts at brain awareness with THREE long tables piled high with pipe cleaners, jars of ink, sketch pads, electrodes, Mindflex Duels, formalin-fixed human and other…
We love visiting with Susie Ridgeway, a Human Anatomy and Physiology teacher, and her curious students at Henrietta Lacks High School in in the Evergreen Public School system near PeaceHealth hospital in the suburbs of Vancouver. We’ve been dropping by with brains, art and our Noggin volunteers for several years… (We also…
Oregon is beautiful! One of the great advantages of leaving campus for outreach beyond the urban core is meeting extraordinary students, teachers and staff, and exploring stunning, often Tolkien-like landscapes of the Pacific Northwest… During this season of Brain Awareness, we’ve set ambitious outreach goals, and on a glorious March…
“It’s about reimagining icons and perceptions of what is beautiful—and who is beautiful.” –Elia Alba Come with me, now I need you (2007), by Mickalene Thomas Brains thrive and develop in distributed networks, linking rich nodes of cortical gray matter through propagating axonal threads. This process requires risks and consequences,…
“To be creative means to connect” –Nawal El Saadawi NW Noggin was thrilled and honored to receive an award on behalf of our extraordinary community outreach volunteers at the Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC) Juice breakfast ceremony at the Portland Art Museum! LEARN MORE: RACC Announces the 2018 Juice Honorees Juice is…
Another merry band of volunteer neuroscience educators arrived in southeast Portland this morning, eager to make art, show brains and answer questions from 6th graders at Hosford Middle School! We’re fast approaching Brain Awareness Week, an annual celebration of high energy (noradrenergic?) neuroscience outreach initiated by the Dana Foundation, a leading philanthropic organization that supports…
What is science communication? How do we effectively talk with each other, and learn? In this season of brain awareness, we know from lived experience, extensive outreach – and brain research – that taking risks, including others, going places where established institutions don’t engage, listening to stories and making art…
“The trickster’s function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom.” – Tom Robbins Detail from “Singing the Souls Back Home,” by Ruth Brockman We love hearing from kids in middle school! Sixth graders…