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…
Thanks to the American Brain Coalition, our outreach participants from OHSU, Portland State University and WSUV are heading to the NIH on Friday morning (4/29), to meet with Chris Thomas, Science Writer for the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, and a graduate of OHSU’s Neuroscience program..! We’ll view prints by Spanish…
We spent a gorgeous Portland afternoon at P:ear, this time with bright spring sunshine, and more people curious to learn about how neurons carry information as electric current..! It was our second Noggin Wednesday at this welcoming homeless youth center this month, and our volunteers arrived with an assortment of transparencies for drawing silk screen t-shirt designs, and…
NW Noggin volunteers headed to the green, mountain-ringed campus of WSU Vancouver on Saturday, to meet middle and high school students participating in MESA Day 2016… SW Washington MESA (Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement*) aims to offer pathways to college for traditionally underrepresented students, including African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanic/Latinos, Pacific Islanders…