If you were asked to draw a scientist, who would you draw? LEARN MORE: Recognizing Ms. Frizzle’s Own Magic For children in the 1960’s and 1970’s, fewer than 1% drew pictures of women. For those asked in studies conducted from 1985 – 2016, this rose to an average of 28%. Yet the youngest kids (ages…
“There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.” –Ursula LeGuin Another road trip! We rose early, loaded our new artist-designed and built “Arc of the Brain Event” cart into the Subaru, grabbed coffee in McMinnville and…
Post written by Portland State University undergraduate Lyubov Bachinskaya Spending time with others involved in NW Noggin was a great experience for me and helped validate the direction I want to go in my life. This is such an exciting option for undergraduates to explore and get involved in even…
“There are billions of neurons in our brains, but what are neurons? Just cells. The brain has no knowledge until connections are made between neurons. All that we know, all that we are, comes from the way our neurons are connected.” – Tim Berners-Lee We’ve had so many outreach events…
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,…