Today our intrepid Noggin volunteers from WSU Vancouver and Portland State University came to the Gardner School of Arts and Sciences, literally just down the road from WSUV. The middle schoolers have been learning about their brains, with help from their teacher Caitlin Littlefield, and we enjoyed a lively discussion…
Almost 100 people piled into Velo Cult on Thursday night (10/23) to learn about memories, including drug memories, and innovative efforts to disrupt such memories by removing chemical scaffolding around synapses known as “perineuronal nets…” Megan Slaker, a graduate student in Neuroscience at Washington State University Vancouver, led the crowd in a spirited…
Four undergraduate neuroscience outreach volunteers from WSU Vancouver (Chelsey Anderson, Matt Wadzita, Grace Hoinowski, and Angela Johnson), and one accomplished Clark County high school student (Alli Probst), brought brains and art projects to Patton Middle School in McMinnville, Oregon on Friday, where 270 8th graders were reading the book “Flowers for Algernon.” We met…
This summer our NW Noggin graduate and undergraduate students from OHSU, PSU, WSUV and PNCA were very busy, both in the lab, in the classroom, in the art studio – and in the community! They were busy collaborating with each other, and learning from each other – and together, 35 of…
In May (2014) our talented program participants (and PSU undergraduates) Lindsay Craver and Michael Miller debuted their brand new video about NW Noggin at Velo Cult in NE Portland. Watch and enjoy! All About NW Noggin It was part of a “Bikes, brains and beer” event that raised money for…
The College of Arts and Sciences at WSU-V is making stipends available for undergraduate participation in neuroscience outreach this summer! In addition, they awarded us $2775 to purchase five, well-stocked “outreach kits,” complete with brain models, spiker boxes, dissection kits, art supplies..! Go Cougars! Ahhh…but see what happens later when…
NW Noggin received five, $750 travel grants from the Portland Alcohol Research Center (PARC) at OHSU to encourage graduate participation in summer outreach! There is another $1250 available in PARC support for outreach materials and supplies… FOR OHSU GRADUATE STUDENTS… We have two remaining $750 Portland Alcohol Research Center (PARC) travel…
NW Noggin was just awarded a Regional Arts & Culture Council grant to support participation by art students from PNCA, PSU and WSU-V in summer 2014 outreach efforts! This will allow us to better support art students who collaborate with science graduates and undergraduates in developing art activities aimed at…