Post by Hannah Hauser, an undergraduate pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Liberal Studies and an Interdisciplinary Neuroscience minor at Portland State University. Exploring neuroscience and learning more about how our brains and bodies work will forever be fascinating… I frequently find myself saying “How did I not know this…
Post by Meaghan Creech, undergraduate in Public Health: Pre-Clinical Health Sciences pursuing a Neuroscience Minor at Portland State University. Meaghan is currently in the last term of their NIH-funded PSU URISE Cohort 2 placement in Nicole Bowles Lab within the Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences at Oregon Health and…
Post (and illustrations!) by Elizabeth DeGraw, an undergraduate Psychology major pursuing a minor in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience at Portland State University. Discovering my topic, animals saved the day As I was trying to think of a good topic to write about for this post, I was hoping to land on an…
Post by Diego Sanchez, an undergraduate pre-Physician’s Assistant in Psychology pursuing an Interdisciplinary Neuroscience minor at Portland State University. There are many activities that I enjoy doing when I have the time. I like to travel, go to the beach, watch a movie with the family, and so forth. Two…
Noggin drama! This spring we traveled to Oregon’s spectacular North Coast for a few days of theater and school visits, to explore the cellular actors that populate our brains. We are indebted to TRIO Clatsop and the tireless work of Meredith Payton, who once again helped organize housing and meals…
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…
We love BRAIN FAIR! What do we love about the annual Brain Fair at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry? It’s FREE! Brain Fair is FREE, which is – unfortunately – not a typical OMSI experience. If you want to visit the rest of Portland’s premier science institution with…
Trading Darkroom Photography for Brain Imaging Post by Amanda Jones, undergraduate in Psychology and Social Science pursuing an Interdisciplinary Neuroscience minor at Portland State University. Amanda currently volunteers for the NCANDA-A study in the Developmental Brain Imaging Lab (DBIL) at Oregon Health and Science University. For as long as I can remember, cameras have always…
Post by Connie Tran, undergraduate in Biology pursuing an Interdisciplinary Neuroscience minor at Portland State University. Connie is a research assistant in Dr. Martin Schreiber‘s lab in the Donald D. Trunkey Center for Civilian and Combat Casualty Care at OHSU. Connie Tran at her research poster during the PSU BUILD EXITO Summer Research Symposium…
Post by Becky Martinez, undergraduate in Psychology pursuing a minor in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience at Portland State University. Becky is currently an undergraduate research assistant at the Advancing Research in Pediatric Pain (ARPP) Lab at Oregon Health and Sciences University. Time for a story! When 14-year-old Ralphie is playing football, he…