On a dry and splendid spring afternoon, fifteen enthusiastic Noggin volunteers headed east for our second “synaptic community connection” in the inland Pacific Northwest… We’d made terrific connections with schools in Davenport, Washington during Brain Awareness Week in March, and were subsequently approached by the Northeast Oregon Area Health Education Center (NEOAHEC) in La Grande to answer…
Post by Jessica Patching-Bunch, Noggin Resource Council member for Communications with language edits by Andrea Anaya from Portland State Neuroscience Club. Llegamos temprano a Sitton Elementary; una escuela primaria ubicada en el vecindario de St. Johns en el norte de Portland. Fuimos 14 voluntarios de PSU, OHSU y WSU… LEARN…
“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control…, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform…by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional…
Post and pictures by Jessica Patching-Bunch, Noggin Resource Council member for Communications NW Noggin joined in the fun at Portland State University’s Oregon MESA Day for area students interested in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) pathways. The third floor Smith Memorial Ballroom was filled with eager young minds ready to…
Exhilarated (and a little exhausted!) from the Society for Neuroscience Oregon/Southwest Washington Chapter meeting, we headed next to Portland’s subterranean Doug Fir Lounge, where the decor was decidedly cortical! And woodsy! And welcoming! We were there to hear the band Moon Hooch with Noggin volunteers Brittany Alperin from Behavioral Neuroscience at OHSU, and…
Scientists, post-docs, graduate students, a healthy contingent of bicycling undergraduates from Portland State University, a high school student, and one brain-savvy artist arrived at McMenamin’s Edgefield in Troutdale last week to attend the annual Society for Neuroscience Oregon & Southwest Washington Chapter meeting, and share posters, talks and research… As it’s Bike Challenge month at both…
The Portland Alcohol Research Center (PARC) is one of Noggin’s top collaborators, helping to purchase the sheep brains, pipe cleaners, electrodes, clay and crayons that innovative, successful and low cost arts-integrated STEM outreach efforts thrive on in public schools… We also share our Noggin volunteers with PARC’s own efforts to reach kids and…
Sitton Elementary is a unique educational community in Portland Public Schools with diverse students, including many English language learners and those with Individual Education Programs (IEPs) and special needs in regular classrooms, as well as “co-teachers” helping everyone engage… LEARN MORE: Educator collaboration keeps all students involved at Portland elementary “Sitton Elementary……
WHAT: Homelessness & the Brain @ p:ear WHERE: p:ear, 338 NW 6th Ave. Portland, OR 97209 WHEN: Thursday, October 19, 10:00am – 1:00pm (9:00am set up for presenters) In 2017, 4177 people in Portland have no permanent home, according to the latest biennial Point in Time count of those living on the streets or in…
Post by Christina Williams, Noggin volunteer and WSU Vancouver senior undergraduate, and aspiring behavioral neuroscience researcher (PTSD) NW Noggin has tremendously enriched my undergraduate experience at Washington State University Vancouver, and has turned an otherwise ordinary academic experience into something far more rewarding and transformative. Noggin has connected me with a…