The Society for Neuroscience conference will bring 30,000 researchers to Washington DC this November (11/11 - 11/15), including many of our NW Noggin (nwnoggin.org) outreach volunteers.  NW Noggin brings together graduate and undergraduate collaborators from the Pacific Northwest, who since 2012 have developed and delivered their own arts-integrated instruction on the brain and…

WHAT: Art of Neuroscience booth WHERE: Walter E. Washington Convention Center, L Street Bridge WHEN: Saturday, November 11 – Wednesday, November 15, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Booth #7 NW Noggin – www.nwnoggin.org  Bill Griesar, Ph.D. is Neuroscience Coordinator for NW Noggin (nwnoggin.org), an art and neuroscience outreach nonprofit based in Portland, Oregon. Bill…

WHAT:  Briefing with Brains, Art & Ice Cream for the House Neuroscience/STEAM caucuses WHERE:   Cannon House Office Building, Room 122, 27 Independence Ave SE, Washington, DC 20003 TRANSIT: Capitol South Metro Station on the Blue and Orange Lines is closest WHEN:  Wednesday, November 15, 2017, 1 - 3pm Meet EARLY:  we…

WHAT:  Noggin visit to Ramon y Cajal exhibit at the NIH We did it! Learn more at the links below..! From classrooms to Congress! Cajal + Creativity @ the NIH WHERE:  John Edward Porter Neuroscience Research Center, National Institutes of Health, 35 Convent Dr, Bethesda, MD 20892 WHEN:  Thursday, November 16, 2017,…

WHAT:  The Stressed Brain - The Good, the Bad, and the Fat with Eileen Ruth Torres (Behavioral Neuroscience, OHSU) and Joshua Abraham (PNCA) WHERE:  Velo Cult, 1969 NE 42nd Ave, Portland, OR 97213 WHEN:  Wednesday, November 29, 6 - 8pm UPDATE: See what we did! Feeling stressed? Nothing seems to bring people the…

WHAT: Noggin visit to Fort Vancouver High WHERE: Fort Vancouver High School, 5700 E 18th St, Vancouver, WA 98661 WHEN: Thursday, November 30, 2017, 7:25am - 2:05pm Join us at Fort Vancouver High School to talk brains and make art! Please RSVP to griesar@pdx.edu and jleake@pdx.edu... See what we've done previously…

WHAT: Noggin Smell, Memory & Place at the Poster Project for K-12 teachers WHERE: Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR 97205 WHEN: Thursday, November 30, 2017, 5:30 - 7:30pm See what we did  -  and smelled, and experienced earlier this month One landscape contains the other… Join NW Noggin…

WHAT: Rally to support grad students, and oppose the grad student tax WHERE: Courtyard outside MacKenzie Hall, OHSU, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland, OR 97238 WHEN: Wednesday, December 6, 2017, 12:00 - 12:30pm Republicans in Congress have targeted graduate education, threatening to tax tuition waivers to pay for…

WHAT: Noggin visit to Minter Bridge Elementary w/90 4th & 5th graders WHERE: Minter Bridge Elementary, 1750 SE Jacquelin Dr, Hillsboro, OR 97123 WHEN: Thursday, December 7, 2017, 8:00am - 11:30am Two sessions, first one beginning at 8:30am The last school visit of the season! Come join us and see our brand…

NW Noggin is thrilled and honored to receive a grant from the Confederated Tribes of Grande Ronde, a sovereign Native American nation in north-central Oregon, for our art and neuroscience outreach proposal "Synapses & Stories:  Coyote, Grizzly and their Brains!" We are invited to the Grande Ronde Tribal campus for a grant presentation ceremony with the…