An enthusiastic squad of Noggin volunteers gathered early Saturday morning at P:ear, an extraordinary non-profit in downtown Portland that offers homeless and transitional youth a safe, warm and inviting space, high quality meals, and engaging volunteer programs in education, art and recreation (P:ear = Project: education, art, recreation)… From above (left…
Bill Griesar and Jeff Leake of Portland State University and NW Noggin recently kicked off the Clatsop Community College “Ales & Ideas” lecture series at the Fort George Brewery in Astoria on October 1. John Harkness, a new Ph.D. from OHSU, joined them with real human brains for audience members…
NW Noggin is honored to work alongside the Portland Art Museum in developing interpretive materials, and gallery descriptions, for visitors to the upcoming “Seeing Nature” exhibit, opening this fall. More information on this “eye-opening” exhibit can be found below… SEEING NATURE: OCTOBER 10, 2015 – JANUARY 10, 2016 THE NATURE OF…
NW Noggin volunteers headed to Southeast Portland this afternoon, to enjoy rather deep and thoughtful discussions about brain development and behavior with engaged and enthusiastic middle school students at Portland Public’s Creative Science School… We were welcomed by Brandan McClain, a Language Arts teacher who helped arrange our visit, and made certain his students…
We enjoyed an afternoon in an Advanced Physiology class at Vancouver’s HeLa High this afternoon, a STEM-focused public school named after Henrietta Lacks… We began by reviewing the electro-chemical nature of information flow in the nervous system. Bill went over resting and action potentials, while Jeff drew a cell membrane and various gated channels on…
Today our intrepid Noggin volunteers crafted neurons out of pipe cleaners, demonstrated perceptual distortions with “drunk” goggles, and introduced brains to students on the WSU Vancouver campus… A KOMO TV news crew was there to film interviews with Noggin outreach coordinators and students. Here’s what they produced…
The 2015 Summer Outreach Program is over, but NW Noggin is still keeping active! We’re working on multiple projects that will be happening in the coming months, so stay tuned! Earlier this week NW Noggin was a part of the Washington State legislative staff tour at WSU-V. Legislative staff toured the…
NW Noggin filmed an episode of “Wait What?,” hosted by Phillippa Pitts, a Kress Foundation Interpretive Fellow at the Portland Art Museum. Jeff Leake and Bill Griesar discuss how our brains respond to various aspects of art from the museum’s permanent collection…
Our four Noggin outreach sites finished up this week with lessons, activities and treats! Check out what our talented and creative students from WSU Vancouver, PSU, the Pacific Northwest College of Art and OHSU collaboratively accomplished this summer in Portland and Vancouver… WSU/MESA program in Vancouver Sabin K-8 SUN program…
Week 2 of our 2015 Summer Outreach Program is complete! Our participants had an action (potential) packed week of neuroscience and art integrated activities and lessons. To learn about the visual system, participants at Jason Lee created their own after-images! Our students with the MESA program got the…