WHAT: Action & Potential in Outreach, Education & Research

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WHERE: EVERYWHERE! 🧠🎨🤝❤️ CLICK ME: Webinar LINK

WHEN: Thursday, September 24, 2020, 10:0am Pacific time; 1:00pm Eastern

A second FREE Society for Neuroscience global webinar with BrainFacts.org & Northwest Noggin! Co-sponsored by the American Brain Coalition. Title based on our keynote address at SfN 2018* 🙂

Join Richard Wingate, the Head of Anatomy at Kings College London and Editor in Chief of BrainFacts.org, and Leigh Wilson, the Public Engagement manager at the MRC Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders at Kings and an avid outreach practitioner, as they explore the question:

“What does outreach mean to you?”

Bill Griesar and Jeff Leake of NW Noggin will moderate the event!

Brandan McClain, middle school teacher in Portland Public Schools

Joey Seuferling, University of Washington Medical School, NW Noggin volunteer

LEARN MORE: Pandemic Connections

See what we learned during our FIRST webinar on pandemic outreach HERE.

Reconnecting Our Brains, One Cell at a Time

Richard Wingate

Editor-in-Chief for BrainFacts.org and Reader in the MRC Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders at King’s College London.

Richard Wingate is a Reader in the MRC Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders at King’s College London. He completed his DPhil in Neurophysiology at Oxford University in 1992 with Professor Ian Thompson. He completed his Masters degree in Academic Practice in 2013 and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He was appointed Head of Anatomy at King’s College London in 2014. Richard has collaborated on a variety of public engagement projects. He was scientific advisor for the Wellcome Collection’s “Brain: the Mind as Matter” exhibition (2012) and has served on Wellcome Trust panels for Science and Art, Society (Pulse), Arts, Arts Production and the Hub selection. He is a member of the Public Education and Communication Committee of the Society for Neuroscience and sits on the advisory boards of the Old Operating Theatre Museum, London and the Science Gallery UK.

Leigh Wilson

Leigh Wilson is the Public Engagement manager at the MRC Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, King’s College London. She has a long-standing passion for outreach lead into the public engagement and education field. Exciting current projects include partnering with artists to build creative and arts-lead approaches to undergraduate bioscience education as well as developing several school outreach programs, which aim to build national and international partnerships and science capital in communities ranging from France to India.

Jeff Leake

Jeff Leake holds a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA from UC Davis. As an educator, he has dedicated himself to exploring the intersection between art and science. He currently teaches in the Psychology and University Studies departments at Portland State University where he works with his colleague (and fellow NW Noggin founder) Bill Griesar to teach art and neuroscience. He is also the president and arts coordinator of NW Noggin. As part of this organization, he has traveled around the country, lecturing and teaching neuroscience through art, working with more than 40,000 K-12 students (and a few adults) and was recognized as an innovator by the Obama White House.

Bill Griesar

Bill Griesar, Ph.D. is Senior Instructor in Psychology at Portland State University, founder and Neuroscience Coordinator of NW Noggin, Adjunct Instructor in University Studies at Portland State, and Affiliate Graduate Faculty in Behavioral Neuroscience at OHSU. He has developed and taught neuroscience courses at Portland State University, Oregon Health & Science University, Clark College, amongst others since 2001, and co-founded (with Jeff Leake) the art + neuroscience outreach nonprofit nwnoggin.org. Through NW Noggin (which is entirely volunteer) he’s met with more than 40,000 K-12 students over real brains and art. He’s been recognized as an innovator by the Obama White House, and has won numerous teaching awards.

* LEARN MORE: Synapsing in San Diego @ SfN!

LIVE: Bill & Jeff introduction (5 minutes)
“But ultimately outreach is different things to different people. We asked outreach practitioners, collaborators, teachers what is their definition of outreach. Then we asked Richard and Leigh to talk about their responses to the clips.”

What does outreach mean to you?
Doing outreach: examples with kids!

LIVE: Bill/Jeff reflection and sum-up and then leads into questions (8 minutes)
Bill: “Leigh, given where we are at with the pandemic now, what is the future of outreach?”
Leigh: “Jeff, how can outreach bring out the creativity of science?”
Jeff: “Bill, inclusivity and diversity is a big part of what we do – how do we stay mindful of this?”
Bill: “Richard, you run a website – how can you ensure that you build diversity and inclusion into the neuroscience that you represent at BrainFacts?”