This week we introduced our depolarizing crowd of Noggin volunteers to 160 high school students at iTech Prep, a Vancouver public school that takes a welcome and familiar STEAM approach to education, “integrating art and design principles into research and problem-based learning…” Our volunteers included Wendy McMakin and Andrew Stanley from Psychology…
NW Noggin presented cutting edge research and art concerning the neuroscience of behavioral change this week at the Portland Art Museum, as part of the Change Connect 4 conference for the Association of Change Management Professionals… High school students from Fort Vancouver High School crafted diverse and colorful neurons from pipe cleaners which hung as a dramatic malleable network during…
“Societies in which we are able to unify ourselves around values and ideals and character and how we treat each other and cooperation and innovation…are gonna be more successful than societies that don’t” -Barack Obama The White House Frontiers Conference brought together some of the world’s leading innovators in Pittsburgh this week to…
Submit your brain-inspired art! Details above, and in the document below – high school students are encouraged to contribute! READ: Oregon Brain Institute: The Art of Neuroscience contest
Post by Noggin volunteer and PSU Psychology undergraduate Allie Clark… This week the NW Noggin brains took a field trip from their usual home at WSU Vancouver to Portland’s Park Blocks! The brains were the stars of the show at the PSU Neuroscience Club’s booth for Portland State’s annual Party in the Park, a…
Post written by Ram Kandasamy, Neuroscience, WSU Vancouver Ram presented his graduate research on cannabinoids and chronic pain as part of a Washington State Psychological Association workshop in September, 2016; a workshop that will also be offered at WSU Vancouver early in 2017 (date/time TBA)… EXPLORE MORE: Art, Pain – and…
A few early mornings for our Noggin crew this week – in fact, it was likely too early for most adolescent brains… ? LEARN MORE: Sleep in Adolescents: The Perfect Storm The first biology class at Fort Vancouver High School starts at 7:25am, so we discussed the importance of sleep, how teenagers need at…
NW Noggin presented a workshop for the Washington State Psychological Association (WSPA) on Saturday, September 10 at North Seattle Community College. A second workshop will be presented at WSU Vancouver in 2017 (date/time TBD)… WORKSHOP SYLLABUS FROM SEPTEMBER (2 CE): WSPA Art Pain and Cannabinoids September 2016 Cannabis sativa from Vienna Dioscurides, 512 AD Bill Griesar,…
Northwest Noggin was ably represented at the Camas 4 Kids Health Fair in Camas, Washington this weekend by Joey Seuferling, the Noggin Resource Council member for hospital and health care outreach, who authored this post… It was a beautiful and brainy day at the Camas 4 Kids Health Fair where…
NW Noggin “charged” south – way south! – to the dramatic, artistically and scientifically rich central coast of Chile, to visit the region where neuroscience blossomed in the second half of the last century, and explore potential links with a celebrated outreach program in Valparaíso… Neurons, of course, carry messages – information about…