Our last spring Noggin Wednesday at P:ear was bittersweet – but mostly sweet! We enjoyed demonstrating an unusually tasty link between neuron structure and function – the role of taste receptor cells, which detect chemicals in food, on our perceptual experience of flavor… Image source Taste receptor cells are found in taste buds, which…
We spent a sunny spring Saturday at Oregon Health & Sciences University, in the Collaborative Life Sciences Building along the Willamette River… It was a great day to bike to the annual Brain Awareness Teacher Workshop, sponsored by OHSU’s Office of Science Education Opportunities, The Moore Institute for Nutrition and…
Post written by PSU Noggin undergraduate Austin Howard It was an overcast Monday morning, a day for getting back into the daily grind. However, for a group of middle school students from the Warm Springs Confederated Tribes it was anything but. Instead, OHSU’s auditorium was awash with volunteers (including our…
It was another busy Noggin Wednesday, with young people curious to hear more from our student volunteers, this time about drugs, sleep, and the electrical nature of information flow in the brain..! Fueled by donated food from Mother’s Bistro, we challenged each other to the Mindflex Duel – adjusting our wirelessly transmitted…
Thanks to the American Brain Coalition, our outreach participants from OHSU, Portland State University and WSUV are heading to the NIH on Friday morning (4/29), to meet with Chris Thomas, Science Writer for the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, and a graduate of OHSU’s Neuroscience program..! We’ll view prints by Spanish…
We spent a gorgeous Portland afternoon at P:ear, this time with bright spring sunshine, and more people curious to learn about how neurons carry information as electric current..! It was our second Noggin Wednesday at this welcoming homeless youth center this month, and our volunteers arrived with an assortment of transparencies for drawing silk screen t-shirt designs, and…
NW Noggin volunteers headed to the green, mountain-ringed campus of WSU Vancouver on Saturday, to meet middle and high school students participating in MESA Day 2016… SW Washington MESA (Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement*) aims to offer pathways to college for traditionally underrepresented students, including African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanic/Latinos, Pacific Islanders…
Piriform cortex is a pear-shaped brain region in the ventral anterior temporal lobes, critical for olfaction (smell) – and the smells at P:ear in downtown Portland were extraordinary and welcoming on our first Noggin Wednesday this year… Lunch was donated by Por Que No? Taqueria and Cupcake Jones, so we…
The Psychology Department at Portland State University is sending five undergraduates, and one graduate student to Washington this spring. One additional PSU undergraduate is joining us in DC, and Portland State is also a co-sponsor of the House “Brains + Art” reception! Undergraduates Allie Clark; alliewclark@gmail.com; OHSU ADHD and Attention Program, PI:…
The Department of Behavioral Neuroscience at Oregon Health & Science University is a basic science department engaged in cutting edge research and teaching focused on behavioral pharmacology, genetics, and cognitive neuroscience… Behavioral Neuroscience is sending four graduate students, with expertise in drug and brain development research, neuroimaging, and STEAM outreach to…