What better way to spend Brain Awareness Week than by hitting the open road! We loaded up our cars with Noggin volunteers, pipe cleaners, dissection trays and extra human brains for a dramatic, stormy 700 mile roundtrip Pacific Northwest journey between Portland/Vancouver and Davenport, Washington..! “Brains in the trunk!” Exploring unfamiliar…
We love growing our Noggin networks – they let us offer student volunteers from multiple institutions extraordinary opportunities they might never get if they always sat in separate university classrooms and didn’t directly engage with all the remarkable people and organizations in their own communities! During a rainy start to Brain Awareness Week we…
By Sulema Rodriguez, PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO scholar and NW Noggin Resource Council member This was my first year attending the OHSU OMSI Brain Fair and it was simply amazing! I loved seeing everyone’s presentations and being inspired by everyone’s work… Throughout my time at the Fair, I worked with two…
We were thrilled to return to one of the nation’s largest Brain Fairs on Saturday, to kick off Brain Awareness Week with piles of pipe cleaners, jars of block printing ink, numerous sketch pads, electrodes, Mindflex Duels, “spiker” boxes, real formalin-fixed cerebrums – and almost 30 enthusiastic Noggin volunteers! LEARN MORE: Brain…
We spent our last “Noggin Tuesday” (for this month anyway – we plan to return!) enjoying substantive, absorbing and engaging conversations with the exceptional young people at P:ear, an innovative program that builds positive relationships with homeless and transitional youth through education, art and recreation… DO MORE: Donate to P:ear While…
NW Noggin is honored to be a Brain Awareness Week partner of the Dana Foundation, a leading philanthropic organization that supports brain research through grants, publications, and educational programs. We share their enthusiasm for active outreach, and their commitment to educating the public about the potential of research… LEARN MORE: The Dana Foundation LEARN MORE: Brain Awareness Week…
We brought a crowd of eager volunteers – along with art supplies, including plants, grasses and vibrant mosses from local gardens – to the STEAM-focused Gardner School of Arts and Sciences, in a bucolic neighborhood of Salmon Creek, Washington… LEARN MORE: From STEM to STEAM: Science and Art Go Hand-in-Hand Sulema Rodriguez and…
“Electricity is really just organized lightning” – George Carlin Today at P:ear was all about orderly currents – the flow of salty action potentials along biological networks of synaptically linked neurons in the human brain! Brittany Alperin, a graduate student in Behavioral Neuroscience at OHSU, brought along some educational (and also fashionable!) EEG…
Want to see brains return to Washington? NW Noggin is planning our return to the Capitol this fall, and to students in DC area public schools! UPDATE: See our newest plans for Noggins in DC! NW Noggins Bring #brains2DC! SEE WHAT WE DID LAST YEAR: STEAMing to DC! The annual Society…
The Trump administration’s first White House Press Secretary, Sean Spicer, warned of “greater enforcement” of federal marijuana laws, noting that “when you see something like the opioid addiction crisis blossoming in so many states around this country, the last thing we should be doing is encouraging people.” However, marijuana is not Vicodin,…