NW Noggin returned for our third Trapper Friday at Fort Vancouver High School, where at first we saw (unsurprisingly, at 7:30am ?) a sea of tired faces. However, the excitement grew as students realized that “the brain people are back!” Some students, of course, still weren’t impressed. Yet as the tardy bell rang, one…
NW Noggin was just awarded $5000 from the US Bank Foundation to continue our STEAM outreach work in Portland and Vancouver. The money will allow us to purchase art supplies, sheep brains, and other educational items critical to our efforts, and better support our student participants from WSU Vancouver, PSU, OHSU and…
Post written by Rosie Salice, one of the NW Noggin undergraduate teaching leads at Fort Vancouver… We focused on neurons and synapses in our second week at Fort Vancouver High School, introducing nine separate classes to the “classical” neurotransmitters, and their roles in alertness, movement, motivation, and aspects of cognition… Students…
Jeff Leake and Bill Griesar presented a two hour workshop on art, drugs and the visual brain at the Portland Art Museum on Sunday, as part of the “In Dialogue” series associated with the “Seeing Nature” exhibit, which runs through January 10, 2016… Here are the slides from the talk, which…
Early Friday morning, a host of NW Noggin volunteers converged on Fort Vancouver High School with one thing on their minds: Brains! It was the first in a series of four outreach sessions planned for the school over the next month, and scores of students jumped at the chance to…
Our NW Noggin participants delivered a sunrise presentation at WSU Vancouver this morning, as part of the Jay D. Miller Conference on best practices in health communication for the Neuroscience caregiver… The conference was supported by WSU Vancouver, and organized by PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center, with a focus on faculty in…
We carried our well-sealed bucket of brains to the Portland Art Museum on Thursday night, for animated discussions about vision and art in our gallery space on “The Nature of Seeing…” We promised no hazardous spills amongst the Morans and Monets, and arrived with far less formaldehyde than, for example, artist Damien Hirst… 🙂 We…
It was easy to hear the large, excited crowd that gathered under the bikes at Velo Cult on Thursday evening, for a lively presentation on audition and the artistry of sound… Phil Uribe, a graduate student in Neuroscience from WSU Vancouver, and Kimberly Cordray, an Arts Practices major from PSU, worked together to inform the audience…
We enjoyed our last fall gathering at P:ear today, with great food, and great questions from enthusiastic young people curious to learn more about the brain… We brought along the popular Mindflex Duel, and explained the electrical nature of information flow along networks of linked neurons, and how thinking about different topics, or engaging…
Our volunteer art and brain educators from PSU, WSU Vancouver and PNCA returned to P:ear this week, this time with donated neuroscience textbooks, and cool and cerebral screen printing designs… Carrie Miyamoto from PNCA brought along her metal frames, and spent a busy few hours teaching folks at P:ear how to spread…