Author: Jeff Leake
Brains, Beauty, & Brews: Noggin at the Phillips
On Thursday evening (4/28/16) NW Noggin joined the Phillips Collection for Brains, Beauty, & Brews, an enjoyable night of neuroscience and art in connection with the Seeing Nature exhibit of Paul Allen’s remarkable private collection of landscape paintings. Above photo by Alex Voigt How did this come about..? In the fall of…
Synaptic Pruning @ Skyridge
We returned to Skyridge Middle School last Friday, this time for Raeleen Gilman’s classes. Courtney Miskell, Joseph Seuferling, Nathan Allen, Rosie Salice from Washington State University Vancouver, and Ellena Rosenthal from Portland State University joined us for a day of conversation about brains and behavior with four well informed groups of…
The Homunculus Dance @ Skyridge
Our enthusiastic Noggin crew joined Ms. Morrisey and three of her very knowledgeable middle school classes this last Friday from 9:20 to 1:50. The students were well prepared with questions, and already knew a surprising amount about the brain. We gamely discussed everything from why we sleep and dream, to what…
Developing brains @ Discovery
Our Noggin volunteers returned to Discovery Middle School this Tuesday for more creative art and brains with science teacher Sam Barnhart’s 7th grade classes. Alex Voigt, Erin McConnell, Justin Case, Gil Brady, Jacob Schoen, Jason Koch, Danae Brown, and Kayla Stippich from Portland State, and Rosie Salice and Essence Zundel…
Puppets @ PSU: Teaching science through art
NWNOGGIN joined Sarah Morgan and her class of enthusiastic Art in the Elementary School students at Portland State University this week to discuss the importance of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics) education and the power of art in education. Joseph Cornell “Habitat Group for a Shooting Gallery” We talked…