Our third visit to one of our favorite classrooms, in a converted house on NE MLK… Our dedicated neuro-educator crew from WSU Vancouver and Portland State returned to school on Monday, to talk about synapses, neurotransmitters and drugs… Sarah Loftus from PSU took the lead, using a worksheet she’d designed to introduce…
We enjoyed an artistic science-packed educational evening in the creative surroundings of the Portland Art Museum on Thursday night, as featured speakers for a “Remixing the Museum: STEAM and New Media” event… We were guests of Hana Layson, the School and Teacher Programs Specialist, Kristin Bayans, the Interpretive Media Specialist, and Phillippa Pitts, a…
Once again, thanks to the generosity of the OHSU Brain Institute, we brought our busy outreach volunteers to an extraordinary lecture by Patricia Churchland at the Newmark Theater in downtown Portland this week… We staffed another NW Noggin table, and had great fun introducing theater-goers to the creative joys of building pipe cleaner…
Sarah Neveux from WSU Vancouver Neuroscience took the teaching lead this morning, and focused on the neuron, that key cellular component of the complex networks that make up our remarkable nervous systems… We began by reviewing the cortical lobes, and then delved into a discussion of how the 200 billion or…
Our energetic Noggin crew joined Mark Rutledge-Gorman from the Portland Alcohol Research Center (PARC) and a host of other presenters at Jefferson High School in Portland this week, for a Health Fair in the cafeteria… Allie Clark and Rosalie Lee from Portland State University, Angela Gonzalez from WSU Vancouver, and Alfredo Zuniga…
Today we met fifteen sharp high school students at McCoy Academy, a school in Northeast Portland that serves students who have left Portland Public Schools, for (according to teacher Kim Keyes) more structure and smaller class sizes… A group of NW Noggin undergraduates, including Rosalie Lee, Alex Voigt (pictured above)…
Sam Carpenter, from the Fair Neuroimaging Lab at OHSU, along with Kathryn McAnalley from PNCA, artfully informed and entertained a crowd of bike, brain and beer aficionados in Northeast Portland on a sunny Thursday night… They talked of images, and brains, and how what we know and can learn about the relationship between…
NW Noggin volunteers from WSU Vancouver headed north to Battle Ground High School, home of the Tigers, to talk about brains with 75 or so students who had spent their morning dissecting fetal pigs..! Neuroscience and Psychology students Bradley Mahoney, Chelsey Taylor Anderson, and Jayme Anderson, along with Bill and Jeff, went…
Revealing curves: Imaging the human brain Pictures of the brain in action are everywhere these days, but what do these fMRI images really represent? How are they acquired, and what do they tell us about how the brain works? Sam Carpenter from the Fair lab at OHSU, and Kathryn McAnalley…
A healthy crowd of committed undergraduate volunteers gathered early this morning at Skyview High, home of the Storm, for our fourth and final day in Biology classrooms… We are going to miss our students, whom we’ve gotten to know over the past month, through our ongoing series of Thursday visits. Art activities, short introductory lectures, and direct,…