NW Noggin will join undergraduates, graduates and faculty from Oregon and Southwest Washington this weekend at the McMenamin’s Edgefield in Troutdale, Oregon, for the annual chapter meeting for the Society of Neuroscience… Topics will include vertebrate vocal circuitry, the role of microRNAs and RNA granules in temporally and spatially regulating gene expression, hippocampal…
Thanks to Katie Sale of the American Brain Coalition, our NW Noggin graduates and undergraduates from WSU Vancouver, Portland State University and OHSU were invited to spend our last East Coast morning enjoying art, science and history at the National Institutes of Health, a sprawling, 300+ acre campus of federal research agencies in Bethesda,…
On an outreach journey that became more extraordinary by the day, beginning with brains and art projects at two DC public schools, and briefings on STEAM education and neuroscience research in both houses of Congress, we gathered Thursday morning outside the gates of the magnificent Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House…
Since December, we have collaborated with the American Brain Coalition, the incredible staff at Rep. Earl Blumenauer and Rep. Suzanne Bonamici’s House offices, the Department of Psychology and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Portland State University, the Chair of the Department of Behavioral Neuroscience and Director of the…
We have never been more proud or excited about the exceptional volunteers we’ve assembled from Portland State University, OHSU, PNCA, and other Northwest campuses as we were during this extraordinary week of Northwest outreach, art and neuroscience education in our nation’s capital… We gathered early Tuesday morning in Northeast DC at the Inspired…
We have the following events confirmed for our outreach participants in Washington DC. We fly there on Monday, April 25th, and leave Saturday, April 30. Noggin folks should plan to arrive EARLY, with ID, to all scheduled appearances! There are security screenings, and often long lines to enter buildings. PRINTABLE SCHEDULE…
Our last spring Noggin Wednesday at P:ear was bittersweet – but mostly sweet! We enjoyed demonstrating an unusually tasty link between neuron structure and function – the role of taste receptor cells, which detect chemicals in food, on our perceptual experience of flavor… Image source Taste receptor cells are found in taste buds, which…
We spent a sunny spring Saturday at Oregon Health & Sciences University, in the Collaborative Life Sciences Building along the Willamette River… It was a great day to bike to the annual Brain Awareness Teacher Workshop, sponsored by OHSU’s Office of Science Education Opportunities, The Moore Institute for Nutrition and…
Post written by PSU Noggin undergraduate Austin Howard It was an overcast Monday morning, a day for getting back into the daily grind. However, for a group of middle school students from the Warm Springs Confederated Tribes it was anything but. Instead, OHSU’s auditorium was awash with volunteers (including our…
It was another busy Noggin Wednesday, with young people curious to hear more from our student volunteers, this time about drugs, sleep, and the electrical nature of information flow in the brain..! Fueled by donated food from Mother’s Bistro, we challenged each other to the Mindflex Duel – adjusting our wirelessly transmitted…