Eight volunteers from PSU, PNCA and WSUV have been dropping by P:ear at lunchtime to talk about brains, make beaded neurons, draw sulci and gyri, and examine real human cerebrums up close… We’ve been part of “Science Wednesdays” at this much valued “safe” space for homeless youth in downtown Portland, and have enjoyed…
Jeff Leake and Bill Griesar head to Chicago this week to present a poster on NW Noggin STEAM outreach efforts in both formal and informal settings – everything from K-12 schools to theaters, art museums, breweries, conferences, homeless youth outreach centers, and bike shop pubs 🙂 We’ll present at the…
WHAT: One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Deaf Fish: What Fish Can Teach Us About Hearing Loss, with Phil Uribe (WSU Vancouver) and Kimberly Cordray (Portland State University) WHEN: Thursday, October 29, 2015, 6 – 8pm WHERE: Velo Cult, 1969 NE 42nd Avenue, Portland, OR Hearing is among our most critical…
Fresh off a long drive from a conference workshop in Ashland, and a shorter bike ride from Northeast Portland, Jeff and Bill had the exciting opportunity to attend the Portland Art Museum member opening of “Seeing Nature,” an extraordinary exhibit of landscape masterworks from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection… We headed first to…
Northwest Noggin presents: five talented artists from PNCA made a five hour drive to southern Oregon, to introduce arts projects they had developed during collaborative summer outreach with Psychology and Neuroscience students from PSU, WSU Vancouver and OHSU, that offer insight into how our brains work… Rebecca Carlisle, Mareika Glenn, Ivy Loughborough, Kathryn MacAnalley,…
An enthusiastic squad of Noggin volunteers gathered early Saturday morning at P:ear, an extraordinary non-profit in downtown Portland that offers homeless and transitional youth a safe, warm and inviting space, high quality meals, and engaging volunteer programs in education, art and recreation (P:ear = Project: education, art, recreation)… From above (left…
Bill Griesar and Jeff Leake of Portland State University and NW Noggin recently kicked off the Clatsop Community College “Ales & Ideas” lecture series at the Fort George Brewery in Astoria on October 1. John Harkness, a new Ph.D. from OHSU, joined them with real human brains for audience members…
NW Noggin is honored to work alongside the Portland Art Museum in developing interpretive materials, and gallery descriptions, for visitors to the upcoming “Seeing Nature” exhibit, opening this fall. More information on this “eye-opening” exhibit can be found below… SEEING NATURE: OCTOBER 10, 2015 – JANUARY 10, 2016 THE NATURE OF…
NW Noggin volunteers headed to Southeast Portland this afternoon, to enjoy rather deep and thoughtful discussions about brain development and behavior with engaged and enthusiastic middle school students at Portland Public’s Creative Science School… We were welcomed by Brandan McClain, a Language Arts teacher who helped arrange our visit, and made certain his students…
We enjoyed an afternoon in an Advanced Physiology class at Vancouver’s HeLa High this afternoon, a STEM-focused public school named after Henrietta Lacks… We began by reviewing the electro-chemical nature of information flow in the nervous system. Bill went over resting and action potentials, while Jeff drew a cell membrane and various gated channels on…