Some healthy frontal lobe development was underway in Portland Public Schools this morning..! Noggin volunteers were invited by the Academic Youth Development (AYD) program, a summer effort by PPS to socially and academically prepare new 9th graders for arrival in high schools this fall… Our outreach participants included Allie Clark, Jessica Patching-Bunch and…
Christie Pizzimenti, an enthusiastic outreach participant from Behavioral Neuroscience at OHSU, presented in the US Senate this spring during our Noggin “Brains + Art” tour of Washington DC. She just published a guide for the Society for Neuroscience on how best to promote brain science on Capitol Hill! Bringing Neuroscience to Congress NW Noggin is…
“Oh demon alcohol, sad memories I can’t recall,” sang The Kinks, about excessive drinking and the risk of blackouts and other consequences. Rob Oberdorfer, Levi Cecil and Evan Railton of the Neutral Spirits covered the song, along with additional ethanol-related tunes during a Noggin presentation by neuroscientist Andrey Ryabinin on why we imbibe…
We enjoyed some post-Fourth neural fireworks today at Floyd Light Middle School in the David Douglas School District, where middle school students were playing “brain games” this week through Multnomah County’s Schools Uniting Neighborhoods (“SUN”) summer program… Noggin volunteers included Erin McConnell, Alex Voigt, Gaile Parker and Lynette Wolf from Portland State University,…
Brief: Outreach Group Spreads Love of Science in the Nation’s Capital Source: Society for Neuroscience With the goal of sharing the joy of science with the world, about two dozen volunteers from the Northwest Neuroscience Outreach Group (Growing in Networks), or NW NOGGIN, came to Washington, DC, recently for a week…
What do prairie voles have to do with heavy drinking..? WHAT: “The Unpredictable Science of Drinking Too Much,” presented by Andrey Ryabinin (OHSU Behavioral Neuroscience) and Rob Oberdorfer & The Neutral Spirits (members of Ages and Ages) WHEN: First Thursday, July 7th, 2016 WHERE: VELO CULT, 1969 NE 42nd Avenue,…
(Alliteration by Noggin volunteer Austin Howard!) School’s out – but our Noggin volunteers won’t slow down! We kicked off a beautiful Northwest summer weekend in Vancouver, Washington, at the Healthy Kids Fair at Legacy Salmon Creek… Lynette Wolf, Austin Howard, Jessica Patching-Bunch, Gaile Parker and Allie Clark from Psychology at Portland State…
After a week of projects and activities with our grads and undergrads from Portland State University, Oregon Health & Science University, and WSU Vancouver, we hit the road for field trips! We’d already enjoyed an exciting introduction to the brain on Tuesday… And creative neuron printmaking with artist Carrie Miyamoto and artist/neuroscience…
We kicked off four days of NW Noggin outreach excitement this morning at Skyview High School, just down the road from WSU Vancouver… GEAR UP, a federal program aimed at preparing low income students for college, offered stipends to five practiced Noggin participants, including Gaile Parker from Psychology at Portland State University, Carrie…
For the last four years, our Pacific Northwest Noggin volunteers, developing experts in neuroscience, psychology, anthropology, and the arts, have collaborated, and partnered with public schools, museums, libraries, hospitals, symphonies, homeless youth centers, drug rehabilitation clinics, and bicycle shop pubs… Even Congress, and the White House! We’ve brought Noggin graduates and undergraduates…