Post by Zach Salcido, undergraduate in Psychology pursuing an Interdisciplinary Neuroscience minor at Portland State University. Zach is a valued outreach participant in Noggin K-12 school visits around the Pacific Northwest, including those in Oregon City and Vancouver Public Schools. “We live in an age where there is a firehose…
Ahhh…elementary school! The questions are the best! Northwest Noggin volunteers took the Interstate Bridge over the Columbia River north to Vancouver Public Schools, for a morning with energetic students at Eleanor Roosevelt Elementary. Our community-engaged participants included Bradley Marxmiller and Dr. Denesa Lockwood from OHSU, along with Justin Benner, Brin…
It’s February, and we are DEEP into our winter outreach schedule, which this term reaches from Portland and Vancouver, Corvallis and the Oregon State Capitol – all the way to Washington DC! Some huge thanks: our extensive all-volunteer efforts received welcome boxes of pipe cleaners, PLA filament and other art…
NOTE: This is a post from 2024, when NW Noggin volunteers visited the Oregon State Capitol in Salem to present the research supporting ditching Daylight Savings and implementing the far healthier Permanent Standard Time. We spoke again on this topic at a Senate hearing in March 2025. We did it!…
Northwest Noggin returns to DC! This month we are honored to join Oregon’s Roundhouse Foundation along with a host of incredible rural, arts and tribal representatives at the National Arts Summit in Washington DC, organized by the National Endowment for the Arts and the White House Office of Domestic Policy! “This…
Our interdisciplinary neuroscience undergrads and faculty were BUSY this fall, from local public schools and Boise conferences to OHSU research labs and the halls of Congress! Here are the latest interdisciplinary neuroscience undergraduate posts from our Noggin volunteers, covering research on houselessness and sleep, childhood development, youth corrections, artificial intelligence,…
Post by Natalie Robison (she/her), undergraduate in Biology at Portland State University pursuing an Interdisciplinary Neuroscience minor. Did you know that, by some measures, a brain has just as many glial cells as it does neurons? LEARN MORE: The search for true numbers of neurons and glial cells in the…
Post by Lorenzo Nungaray, undergraduate in Biology pursuing an Interdisciplinary Neuroscience minor at Portland State University. Lorenzo works as a research technician in the Sleep & Health Applied Research Program (SHARP) at OHSU, under the direction of Dr. Miranda Lim. LEARN MORE: Lorenzo Nungaray, SHARP Lab @ OHSU “Each night, when I go to…
Post by Abubakar Nur, undergraduate in Psychology pursuing an Interdisciplinary Neuroscience minor at Portland State University. I’m an undergraduate at PSU, and I’m pursuing an interdisciplinary neuroscience minor. This Halloween I joined my fellow undergrads, along with graduate students and scientists from the nearby Oregon National Primate Research Center, for a visit to Dr. Martin…
“I just hope that more people will ignore the fatalism of the argument that we are beyond repair. We are not beyond repair. We are never beyond repair.” — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Brains change, but they also develop routines, and adult brains are less plastic and more fixed in their neural…