Noggin volunteers and members of the Neuroscience and Psychology Clubs from Portland State University beelined to the historic art and beer-saturated McMenamin’s Edgefield Hotel last Friday to join the annual Society for Neuroscience Oregon/Southwest Washington Chapter meeting at the mouth of the Columbia River Gorge… It was a mossier, wetter morning…
Post by volunteer Ashley Keates, Portland State University Ashley Keates (left side; right hemisphere) & Max Barsana (right side; left hemisphere) Construction: I arrived one evening after my Sleep & Dreams class at PSU to pick up styrofoam I learned I could use to construct a BIG NOGGIN for the…
The skies cooperated for the second annual March for Science, a year after the damp inaugural 2017 event drew thousands of evidence-based Northwesterners to Portland’s Tom McCall Waterfront Park..! LEARN MORE: Synapsing for Science! Once again, our Noggin volunteers delivered the brains, this time to “Portland’s Living Room,” red-bricked Pioneer Square, to…
Post by Aaron Eisen, NW Noggin volunteer from Portland State University When I first learned of “NW Noggin,” the neuroscience outreach group, I had no idea what this tremendous experience had to offer. After reading about the all volunteer instructors and students, I discovered that Noggin traveled to local schools…
This week our Noggins returned in force to a stunningly renovated Franklin High, after two years of voter-approved seismic upgrades beautifully revitalized yet another Portland Public School… The message sent to students, teachers, staff and visitors is clear in school improvements – that education is a priority for this community.…
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the sprawling federal agency that funds research, including brain research. The BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies®) Initiative is an NIH program aimed at “revolutionizing our understanding of the human brain” through investment in technologies that should ultimately allow neuroscientists to visualize how individual…
Una otra presentación del cerebro y arte! Last month a small crew of volunteers from Portland State University joined Maria Paz Herrera, a Youth Engagement Specialist for the Latino Network, a nonprofit that aims to lift up Latino youth and families to reach their full potential, and some of her curious students for…
Post written by Ruth Marigomen, Noggin Resource Council member for WSU Vancouver Noggin once again incited wonder about neuroscience amongst youngsters, and this time we shared our brains (both inside and outside our heads) with curious students at Skyridge Middle School..! We were fortunate enough to reach four Skyridge classes…
If you were asked to draw a scientist, who would you draw? LEARN MORE: Recognizing Ms. Frizzle’s Own Magic For children in the 1960’s and 1970’s, fewer than 1% drew pictures of women. For those asked in studies conducted from 1985 – 2016, this rose to an average of 28%. Yet the youngest kids (ages…
“There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.” –Ursula LeGuin Another road trip! We rose early, loaded our new artist-designed and built “Arc of the Brain Event” cart into the Subaru, grabbed coffee in McMinnville and…