NW NOGGIN: Neuroscience outreach group (growing in networks)

Velo planning: Parkinson's & Dance!
2018-03-19 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Velo Cult Bike Shop, 1969 NE 42nd, Portland, OR
Noggin planning for a May 2 Velo Cult presentation on the role of error and “failure” in research and art! With Rebecca Hood from Behavioral Neuroscience at OHSU and Krystal Ngene of the Kúkátónón Children’s African Dance Troupe…

Meeting at Velo Cult @ 5:00pm…
Velo event tentatively set for Wednesday, May 2..!

Noggin @ Madison High!
2018-03-20 15:45 - 17:00 | Madison High School, 2735 NE 82nd Ave, Portland, OR, 97220, United States
WHAT: Noggin @ Madison High School; presentación de cerebros y arte
We did it! WATCH THIS SPACE: POST COMING SOON 🙂

WHERE: Madison High School, 2735 NE 82nd Ave, Portland, OR 97220
WHEN: Tuesday, March 20, 2018, 3:45pm – 5:00pm

Noggin volunteers from Portland State University, OHSU and other area campuses will meet with about twenty 9th and 11th grade bilingual students at Madison, introducing them to neuroscience research and art projects related to understanding the brain…
Students are particularly curious about: adolescent brain development, bilingualism and mental health
Part of our collaboration with the Latino Network – learn more at the links!
Latino Network Learning & Lobes

Tres Escuelas en un Día!

Come join us!
Please RSVP to Bill Griesar (griesar@pdx.edu) & Jeff Leake (jleake@pdx.edu)
Committed participants
Sulema Rodriguez, PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO
Gaile Parker, PSU
Jordan Ray, PSU
Heather Hamilton, PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO

Noggin @ Willamina High!
2018-03-22 09:30 - 12:00 | Willamina High School, 1100 N.E. Oaken Hills Dr., Willamina, OR, 97396, United States
WHAT: Noggin visit to Willamina High School
We did it! Brain class, meeting with principal, plus interview with school paper..!
LEARN MORE AT THIS LINK…
Brains are xumxum @ Willamina

WHERE: Willamina High School, 1100 N.E. Oaken Hills Dr., Willamina, OR 97396
WHEN: Thursday, March 22, 9:30 – 10:29am, Michelle Anderson’s 3rd period classroom; 10:45am, meeting with principal Tim France

We are returning to gorgeous Yamhill County near Grande Ronde to discuss brains and art and answer questions from high school students in Oregon Pacific Area Health Education Center Coordinator Joanne Trczinski’s Health Professions club during Willamina teacher Michelle Anderson’s 3rd period class. We’ll also meet with Willamina Principal Tim France to discuss the Native Storytelling and the Brain project, and start initial planning for a longer series of visits in the fall…

LEARN MORE: Synapses & Stories – Coyote, Grizzly & their Brains!

And we field-tested the new back saving “Arc of the Brain Event” Noggin transport chariot – built by the extraordinary metal artist Matt Cartwright…

LEARN MORE: Cartwright Design

NW Noggin @ Women in STEM!
2018-03-24 08:00 - 13:30 | Heritage High School, 7825 NE 130th Ave, Vancouver, WA, 98682, United States
WHAT: Women in STEM Event!
We did it! A LOT of future scientists here today!!

Learn more at the link!
Women in Science (& Art!)

WHERE: Heritage High School, 7825 NE 130th Ave, Vancouver, WA 98682
WHEN: Saturday, March 24, 8:00am – 1:30pm; (set up 8:00 – 9:00am)

LUNCH PROVIDED! (though that’s not lunch :))
Contact: Laura Randall, Program Director, nConnect
“We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That’s just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.”
–Mae C. Jemison (U.S. engineer, physicist and astronaut who became the first African-American woman in space)

NW Noggin volunteers are up early today for a fun, informative, interactive day of STEM activities and presentations for girls in Washington’s Clark County!

Doors will be open at 7:30am for Setup.
8:30-9am : Robotics Demonstration during Student Registration/Table Setup
(9-9:30am Quiet time for Keynote Speaker in Auditorium)
9:30-10:30am: Interactive tables in Common Area (your name will be on your table)
10:30-11:15am: Workshops in Classrooms
11:25-12:10pm: Workshops in Classrooms (Your room is Rm 171)
12:10-12:40pm: Lunch and Surveys in the Cafeteria
12:40-1:30pm: Panel Discussion and Closing
1:30-2:00pm: Clean up

“The brain is a three pound mass you can hold in your hand that can conceive of a universe a hundred billion light-years across.” –Marian Diamond (who discovered how environmental enrichment expanded the number of neural connections, with neurons sprouting dendritic spines to accommodate new synapses)

Our new “Arc of the Brain Event” chariot by Matt Cartwright!
Committed Participants
Ruth Marigomen, Noggin Resource Council
Alyona Kurelenkova, PSU
Iris Gutierrez, WSU
Anthony Almonte, WSU
Saray Farias, WSU
Jeehoon Jung, WSU
Eric Polch, WSU

Noggin Brain Board meeting
2018-03-24 18:00 - 19:30 | County Cork, 1329 NE Fremont St, Portland, OR, 97212, United States
WHAT: Noggin Brain Board meeting
WHERE: County Cork, 1329 NE Fremont St, Portland, OR 97212
WHEN: Saturday, March 24, 2018, 6:00pm – 7:30pm
The Noggin Brain Board (Jeff Leake, President; John Harkness, Vice President (absent); Bill Griesar, Treasurer; Kindra Crick, Board Secretary) MET at the County Cork on Saturday (3/24) to discuss progress and plans for more innovative arts integrated outreach in the Pacific Northwest…

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE BRAIN BOARD
Since our Board retreat in February, 2017, Noggin has visited more than 80 public schools, homeless youth centers, conferences, galleries and bike shop pubs, reaching more than 5000 new academic priority K-12 students and members of the public (including members of Congress) with brains, art and enthusiastic outreach volunteers..!

From this morning’s Women in STEM event: Noggin inspires 🙂
Brain Board members Jeff Leake and Bill Griesar organized and attended every visit, and Bill wrote detailed posts about each one, which are available here…

NOGGIN BLOGGIN

Jeff and Bill also arranged (joyously!) for volunteers to present at their first conferences, including the Society for Neuroscience – both the Oregon Chapter (where Bill serves as the PSU Representative), and at the national conference in Washington, DC. They brought Noggin volunteers into Congressional offices on Capitol Hill to advocate for investment in research and education, and to p:ear, a homeless youth drop in center for a day long public session on “Homelessness & the Brain.” They traveled to Street 14 Cafe in Astoria to discuss caffeine and the brain, to La Grande, Heppner, Ione, Sheridan, Amity, Willamina and Siletz Valley, Oregon for multi-day outreach visits in rural districts, and to the Oregon Arts Education conference in Wilsonville for demonstrations of arts integration in STEM.

“You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.” –Ursula K. Le Guin
In fall, 2017, Bill and Jeff enthusiastically encouraged volunteers to organize and present the inaugural Noggin Fest, a public extravaganza featuring graduate and postdoctoral research presentations, science-inspired art works, and live music. Board members Kindra Crick and Jeff organized the art auction and Board member John Harkness served as the emcee. This well-attended event at the Alberta Rose Theater raised enough money to send 15 PSU undergraduates, and four from WSU to present multiple posters and run a popular “Art of Neuroscience” booth at the Society for Neuroscience conference in DC, work with over 750 local K-12 students, present on innovative outreach to the House Neuroscience and STEAM caucuses and tour the Cajal exhibit and additional science-related art at the NIH. Noggin was awarded a 2018 “Out of the Ordinary” Juice award by the Regional Arts & Culture Council for giving “children a unique opportunity to learn about neuroscience and the brain using nontraditional, artistic methods that make the information more accessible and impactful.”

LEARN MORE: Noggin Fest 2017
LEARN MORE: From Classrooms to Congress
LEARN MORE: Ten Ways to Support the Arts (& Science!)
Noggin raised thousands of dollars in grants from diverse sources, including Noggin Fest ($7000), the Spirit Mountain Community Fund ($5000), the Society for Neuroscience (complimentary conference registration for 18 students), and the Portland Alcohol Research Center at OHSU ($5000 in supplies) to run our free programs for diverse academic priority K-12 students, and introduce them to the study of their own brains and behavior.

LEARN MORE: Synapses & Stories
Discussions focused on Board communication, Board member responsibilities, expanding and/or changing the Board, current financial status, and plans for future outreach activities, including the upcoming March for Science on April 14, and possible connections in China (congrats to Jeff on winning the Arte Laguna Prize!)…

In it for the awe, student support and service. Educators and innovators at heart. No academic or administrative agenda, no more of the same, no roll up costs or fancy lifetime tenure. We thoroughly enjoy making connections and communicating neuroscience & art 🙂

Velo planning: Anorexia & figurative painting
2018-03-26 18:00 - 19:00 | Velo Cult Bike Shop, 1969 NE 42nd, Portland, OR
Noggin planning for a late May/early June Velo Cult presentation on anorexia nervosa and other eating disorders. With Tara Chowdhury from Behavioral Neuroscience at OHSU and Kayla Townsley, an NIH BUILD EXITO scholar and figurative painter from Portland State University…

Music + Noggins @ Franklin High!
2018-04-03 13:30 - 15:15 | Franklin High School, 5405 SE Woodward St, Portland, OR, 97206, United States
WHAT: Visit to Karen Polis’s Psychology classroom at Franklin High School
We did it! Great questions, music – and an in class experiment. LEARN MORE!
Autonomic Function @ Franklin

WHERE: Franklin High School, 5405 SE Woodward St, Portland, OR 97206
WHEN: Tuesday, April 3, 1:30 – 3:15pm

A return to a renovated Franklin High!
We’ll introduce our volunteers, who will describe their studies and research, how they got where they are now, and where they’d like to be going. We’ll ask students what questions they have, and what they already know about the brain and behavior.

We’ll be joined by Kimberly Engeln, a research assistant in John Williams opioid tolerance lab in The Vollum Institute at OHSU. Kim is an accomplished Noggin volunteer, photographer, and musician in the band The Secret Ceremony, and she’ll play drums while we explore physiological responses using the Mindwave Mobile EEG system and a galvanic skin response detector developed by PSU undergraduate Jordan Ray…

LEARN MORE: Kim Engeln: Teaching thousands about the brain!
LEARN MORE: Astoria Noggins: Tipsy Buzzed Mice @ Street 14
We’ll hold cerebrums, listen to great songs, and talk about the effects of music on the brain…
See what we did at Franklin last year!
Frequencies @ Franklin: Your brain on sax!

Committed participants
Kim Engeln, OHSU
Jordan Ray, PSU
Joey Seuferling, Noggin Resource Council member
Veronika Lobova, WSU
Krystal Nguyen, PSU
Jade Osilla, PSU
Michelle Greissinger, PSU

Noggin + AVDS @ Reynolds High!
2018-04-10 08:00 - 09:00 | Reynolds High School, 1698 SW Cherry Park Rd, Troutdale, OR, 97060, United States
WHAT: Help Mr. Wergeland’s first period Human Anatomy Class learn more about the brain through hands-on demos and art! We’ll be there with volunteers from our awesome partners, the Equity & Empowerment Corps (EEC) of Portland State University and the Alliance for Visible Diversity in Science at OHSU…
We did it!
WATCH THIS SPACE: Details coming soon!

When: Tuesday, April 10th during 1st period (8:10 – 9:00 AM)
Where: Reynolds High School, 1698 SW Cherry Park Rd, Troutdale, OR 97060
Contact: Ali Mirzazadeh Javaheri (ali34@pdx.edu), EEC First year mentor, NIH Build EXITO scholar, PSU Neuroscience Club Event Outreach Coordinator

Please join us to discuss brains, art and neuroscience research! RSVP to Bill Griesar (griesar@pdx.edu) & Jeff Leake (jleake@pdx.edu)

CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS
Ali Mirzazadeh Javaheri, PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO
Eileen Torres, Behavioral Neuroscience, OHSU
Jasmin Limbaugh, PSU
Micheal Deveney, PSU
Tyler Braly, PSU
Jade Osilla, PSU
Ashley Keates, PSU

From the Alliance for Visible Diversity in Science at OHSU…
We focus on one central mission – to increase visible diversity within the Graduate Studies programs at Oregon Health and Science University by recruiting, retaining, and most importantly, supporting graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, staff, and faculty members from underrepresented backgrounds.
Community Partner Highlight: NW NOGGIN

(Northwest Neuroscience Outreach Group: Growing in Networks)
NW NOGGIN was co-founded in 2012 by an OHSU alumnus, Bill Griesar, and Portland artist, Jeffrey Leake, as a group focused on STEAM, the integration of art in STEM education. Now a non-profit organization, NW NOGGIN has been spreading brain awareness all across the country, even Capitol Hill. The group strives to bring neuroscience and art to under-served communities and offers researchers unique opportunities to share their science with the public. To learn more, visit their website: nwnogging.org or Twitter.
Event
Help Mr. Wergeland’s first period Human Anatomy Class learn more about the human brain through hands-on demos and art.We are so excited to have NW NOGGIN as an AVDS partner and look forward more collaborations!

When: Tuesday, April 10th during 1st period (8:10 – 9:00 AM)
Where: Reynolds High School

Noggin @ Skyridge
2018-04-12 08:00 - 13:00 | Skyridge Middle School, 5220 NW Parker Street, Camas, WA, 98607, United States
WHAT: Noggin @ Skyridge Middle School

We did it! WATCH THIS SPACE: Post coming soon…

WHERE: Skyridge Middle School, 5220 NW Parker St, Camas, WA 98607
WHEN: Tuesday, March 13, 8:00am – 1:00pm
Noggin volunteers from Portland State University, OHSU and other area campuses will meet with students at Skyridge, introducing them to neuroscience research and art projects related to understanding the brain…

See what we’ve done before at the links..!
Curiosity’s Sky-High at Skyridge!

The Homunculus Dance @ Skyridge

Synaptic Pruning @ Skyridge

Please RSVP to griesar@pdx.edu and jleake@pdx.edu
COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
Tyler Braly, PSU
Ashley Keates, PSU
Joey Seuferling, Noggin Resource Council
Aaron Eisen, PSU

SfN OR/SW WA Chapter Meeting
2018-04-13 - 2018-04-14 | McMenamin’s Edgefield, 2126 S.W. Halsey St., Troutdale, OR, 97060, United States
WHAT: Society for Neuroscience OR/SW WA Chapter Annual Meeting
We did it! Check out our Noggin summary of the meeting at the link…
Mental health @ McMenamin’s

WHERE: McMenamins Edgefield, 2126 SW Halsey Street, Troutdale, OR
WHEN: Friday, April 13 – Saturday, April 14

Neuroscience of Neuropsychiatric Disorders
Friday, April 13
9:00 Registration and Poster Set-up
10:00 Welcome and Introductions

“We treat complex psychiatric disorders as if they’re simple…with treatments discovered by accident in the 1950’s. Basic #research on symptoms a better approach” @bita137 opening @SfNtweets Chapter mtg 🧠 #Neuroscience of neuropsychiatric disorders 🧠 https://t.co/MlWa005zam pic.twitter.com/5Cisgu2YT3
— N.W. Noggin (@NWNoggin) April 13, 2018

10:15 Abraham Palmer, Ph.D., Professor and Vice Chair for Basic Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego; The surprising role of the enzyme Glyoxalase 1 and its substrate methylglyoxal in anxiety, depression and alcohol consumption

10:45 Bita Moghaddam, Ph.D., Ruth Matarazzo Professor and Chair, Department of Behavioral Neuroscience, Oregon Health & Science University; Translation of anxiety into actions by prefrontal cortex neurons

11:15 Melynda Casement, Ph.D.,Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Oregon; Reward-related brain function as a mechanism of depression in adolescent girls

11:45 Joseph Quinn, M.D., Professor of Neurology, Director, OHSU Parkinson Center and Movement Disorders Program, Oregon Health & Science University; Neuropsychiatric aspects of neurodegenerative disease

12:15 Lunch
1:30 Carolyn Jones, Ph.D., Department of Behavioral Neuroscience, Oregon Health & Science University; Early life sleep and social development in prairie voles: A model of autism spectrum disorder?

2:00 Sarah Karalunas, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Division of Clinical Psychology, Oregon Health & Science University; Characterizing mechanisms of change in ADHD symptoms and impairment

2:30 Eileen Ruth S. Torres, Department of Behavioral Neuroscience, Oregon Health & Science University; Apolipoprotein E isoforms, chronic variable stress, and cortical oxysterol levels

2:45 Jacqueline R. Thompson, Division of Neuroscience, Oregon National Primate Research Center; Aberrant behavioral regulation in juvenile Japanese macaques is associated with hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor, perinatal diet, and gestational environment

3:00 Jereme Wingert, WSU Vancouver; Perineuronal net removal decreases cue-induced reinstatement in cocaine self-administering rats

3:15 Break
4:30 Poster Session I
Griesar/Leake, Weiss, Zweig, Christian, Gupta, Harris, Boutros, Salazar, Gonzalaez

6:30 Dinner
7:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Heather Cameron, Ph.D., Chief, Section on Neuroplasticity, National Institute of Mental Health; New neurons alter hippocampal structure and function in models of depression and anxiety

MORE MEETING DETAILS: SFN ORWA 2018 schedule

Register for SfN Oregon/SW Washington Chapter Meeting

The art of neuroscience: creating networks for innovative engagement at sfn, schools, local communities & congress

GRIESAR, W.S.*, LEAKE, J.*
“All outstanding work, in art as well as in science, results from immense zeal applied to a great idea.” – Santiago Ramon y Cajal
Science needs investment, and engaging people builds support for research and education. Integrating arts in STEM (“STEAM”) fosters innovative engagement. We excited thousands of K-12 students, scientists, policy makers and the public about research and art during the 2017 Society for Neuroscience conference in Washington, DC.

LEARN MORE: From classrooms to Congress!
Nonprofit NW Noggin (nwnoggin.org) organizes undergraduates and graduates to collaborate and engage, building networks and inspiring academic priority students and the public about discovery in neuroscience and art. Volunteers leave classrooms and labs, and benefit from connecting across disciplines and institutions, serving as “near peer” role models, gaining skill explaining work and thinking creatively about careers. We’ve met with over 20,000 K-12 students since 2012!

LEARN MORE: Noggin Bloggin
In fall of 2017, 21 Noggin volunteers attended the Society for Neuroscience conference in DC. SfN provided complimentary registration, the Portland State University Neuroscience Club and NIH BUILD EXITO funded outreach supplies and travel for 8 PSU participants, while OHSU covered travel for their 5. The remaining 8 (4 from PSU, 4 from WSU) were supported by NW Noggin, along with housing for all 21, partly through money raised at Noggin Fest, a student-run celebration of research, music and art at Portland’s Alberta Rose Theater.

LEARN MORE: Noggin Fest 2017!
During a week in DC, in partnership with the American Brain Coalition, SfN, and the Phillips Collection, we worked with 750 students at Turner Elementary and Sidwell Friends. We staffed a popular “Art of Neuroscience” booth at SfN, and presented our volunteers, research, and evidence of outreach effectiveness to the U.S. House Neuroscience and STEAM caucuses at a “Noggin Briefing with Brains, Art & Ice Cream,” as we did previously in 2016. Three of the four caucus co-chairs represent Northwest districts we’ve visited before. At the briefing, co-sponsored by PSU, OHSU, the p:ear homeless youth center and the Portland Art Museum, we examined human cerebrums, discussed research, and crafted pipe cleaner neurons with two House members and more than 80 Congressional staff.

Building excitement and awareness of discoveries in neuroscience through arts-integrated outreach across institutional, state, federal and generational lines trains diverse new scientists to collaborate and communicate, and increases awareness and support for further investment in brain research and the arts.

Department of Psychology, Portland State University; NW Noggin (nwnoggin.org)

March for Science!
2018-04-14 08:00 - 15:00 | Pioneer Courthouse Square, 701 SW 6th Ave, Portland, OR, 97205, United States
WHAT: March for Science PDX 2018!
We did it! AWESOME day of brains, art & action!! Details at the link…
Gray Matter Marching

WHERE: Pioneer Square, Portland, Oregon
WHEN: Saturday, April 14, 2018, 8am – 3pm
Support scientific research, education and outreach, ask questions, hold brains, make art!

LEARN MORE @ March for Science PDX 2018!!

8:00am – 10:00am: Set up
11:00am: MARCH FOR SCIENCE
10:00 am – 3:00pm: Science Expo

Ashley Keates and Max Barsana from Portland State University have been BUSY – carving a styrofoam brain for the March!!

See what we did last year!
Synapsing for Science!

Committed participants
Jesse Hamlin, PSU/Noggin Resource Council
Andrew Stanley, PSU
Denessa Oberbeck, OHSU
Ashley Keates, PSU
Heather Wild, PSU/Mount Hood Community College
Lynette Wolf, PSU
Jeehoon Jung, WSU
Heather Hamilton, PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO
Kayla Townsley, PSU/OHSU/NIH BUILD EXITO/Noggin Resource Council
Jacob Schoen, OHSU/Noggin Resource Council
David Jacobs, OHSU
Alex Kunz, PSU
Jobe Ritchie, PSU
Cody Prouty, PSU
Louis Sumrall, PSU
Jordan Ray, PSU

Noggin Tuesdays @ p:ear!
2018-04-24 09:30 - 11:30 | P:ear, 338 NW 6th Ave, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
WHAT: Noggin Tuesdays @ p:ear!
We did it! Day one of four at the link…
“He LOVES this” – Noggin @ p:ear

WHERE: p:ear, 338 NW 6th Ave., Portland, OR 97209
WHEN: Tuesday, April 24, 2018, 9:30 – 11:30am

Noggin is returning to P:ear, a remarkable Portland organization aimed at building positive relationships with homeless and transitional youth through education, art and recreation to affirm their personal worth and help them create more meaningful and healthier lives…

DAY ONE: We’re busy cutting out plywood brain regions using a new Maslow CNC router…that we’ll then paint at p:ear based on what these regions do!

We are excited to communicate science through the extraordinary volunteer efforts of our talented graduate and undergraduate Noggin participants from Portland State University, Oregon Health & Science University, the Pacific Northwest College of Art, and other collaborators.!

Learning about the brain, and behavior, and the evidence-based structural and functional aspects of who we are is powerful and actionable information for everyone, including young people struggling, like many, with anxiety, depression, drugs, chronic stress – and poverty, isolation, racism, homophobia, lack of affordable housing and other factors that can impact development.
LEARN MORE: Noggin @ p:ear
COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
Brittany Alperin, OHSU
Jordan Ray, PSU
Ashley Keates, PSU
Aaron Eisen, PSU
Jade Osilla, PSU
Joey Seuferling, Noggin Resource Council

Noggin @ Alzheimer's Association of Oregon!
2018-04-26 09:00 - 11:00 | Alzheimer’s Association of Oregon, 1650 NW Naito Parkway, Suite 190, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
WHAT: Noggin @ Alzheimer’s Association!
We did it! See all the fun we had at the link..!
Taking children (& extra brains!) to work

WHERE: Alzheimer’s Association of Oregon, 1650 NW Naito Parkway, Suite 190 | Portland, OR 97209
WHEN: Thursday, April 26, 9:00am – 11:00am

Drawing by Camillo Golgi: Hippocampus from Opera Omnia, 1903
We’re bringing our volunteers to introduce brains, answer some questions, and learn more about research and advocacy at the office of the Alzheimer’s Association of Oregon!
Please join us! RSVP to griesar@pdx.edu and jleake@pdx.edu

COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
Justin Navarro, PSU
Aaron Eisen, PSU
Deza’Rae Collins, PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO

A particularly affecting series of self-portraits by artist William Utermohlen, stricken with Alzheimer’s, helps bring home, powerfully, the relentlessly devastating nature of this disease…
LEARN MORE : What Is Alzheimer’s?
LEARN MORE: Beethoven, Brains, and Bloody Mary’s
LEARN MORE: NW Noggin @ the Newmark: Nicholas Bazan

Noggin @ Lane Middle School!
2018-05-01 15:45 - 17:45 | Lane School, 7200 SE 60th Ave, Portland, 97206, United States
WHAT: Visit to Lane Middle School w/Latino Network
WHERE: Lane Middle School, 7200 SE 60th Ave, Portland OR 97206
WHEN: TUESDAY, May 1, 2018; 3:45 – 5:45pm

CONTACT: Oscar Betancourt, Youth Engagement Specialist, Latino Network
LEARN MORE: Latino Network Learning & Lobes
We’ll begin with introductions, build pipe cleaner neurons, and examine some brains..!
Please join us! RSVP to griesar@pdx.edu and jleake@pdx.edu…
COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
Sulema Rodriguez, PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO/Noggin Resource Council
Jordan Ray, PSU
Austin Lewis, PSU
Jade Osilla, PSU
Ashley Keates, PSU

Velo Cult: The Secrets of Parkinson's & Dance
2018-05-02 18:00 - 20:00 | Velo Cult Bike Shop, 1969 NE 42nd, Portland, OR
WHAT: What do mistakes teach us? @ Velo Cult with Rebecca Hood, Behavioral Neuroscience, OHSU and Krystal Ngene, Danielle Ali-Cassim, and 20 dancers from the Kúkátónón African Children’s Dance Troupe
We did it! LEARN MORE at the link!
Parkinson’s, Dance & Mistakes

WHERE: Velo Cult, 1969 NE 42nd Ave, Portland, OR 97213
WHEN: Wednesday, May 2, 2018, 6:00pm – 8:00pm

Mistakes are essential to learning in research and dance.
Discover the role of error in acquiring skills, and advancing both science and art with Rebecca Hood of OHSU and brilliant performers from the Kúkátónón African Children’s Dance Troupe!
All the inventions that the world contains,
Were not by reason first found out, nor brains;
But pass for theirs who had the luck to light
Upon them by mistake or oversight.
–Samuel Butler
Scientists aren’t perfect, as much as they’d like to be. The mistakes that researchers make aren’t usually mentioned in the papers they produce, leaving out a valuable (and often huge) part of the story. From a botched brain surgery that revolutionized the way we understand Parkinson’s disease to the discovery of anesthesia, join us as we talk about mistakes in science and the discoveries that can come from them.
“While music alone can unlock people with parkinsonism, and movement or exercise of any kind is also beneficial, an ideal combination of music and movement is provided by dance (and dancing with a partner, or in a social setting, brings to bear other therapeutic dimensions).” – Oliver Sacks

Learning to dance involves extensive trial and error, exquisite timing, and trains some of the same brain networks involved in acquiring other fluid skills, networks also impacted by Parkinson’s.

LEARN MORE: Basal ganglia @ Beaumont!
Kúkátónón’s mission is to inspire confidence, commitment and vitality among the children in the dance troupe, their families and communities; and to broaden awareness of African and African American cultural traditions throughout Oregon. Our Troupe performs to West African rhythms through song, instrument and dance.
Upcoming Events:
Public African Dance Workshop on Saturday, May 12th from 1:30-3pm at Peninsula Community Center
Partner with the Pan African Festival on Aug 11, 2018
Kukatonon End of Year Show – June 9th

NW Noggin Velo Cult events are always free, open to the public, child friendly, and feature access to amazing beer (scroll here for current tap list), wine, coffee, tea, sodas and sandwiches…

SfN ABSTRACTS DUE!
2018-05-03
Abstracts for the annual Society for Neuroscience (SfN) conference are DUE Thursday, May 3 by 5pm Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)…

LEARN MORE: Call for Abstracts
SEE WHAT WE DID LAST TIME IN SAN DIEGO…
A network grows in San Diego

NW Noggin is submitting an abstract for the conference, which is scheduled for November 3 – 7 in San Diego, California. An evolving draft version is below…

NW Noggin: homelessness and the brain – seeing us all through research and art
GRIESAR, W.S.* **, LEAKE, J.* ** ***
“It’s like people see me as an object, not as a human being.”
Science needs investment, and engaging people builds support for research and education. Integrating arts in STEM (“STEAM”) fosters innovative engagement. Here we report on efforts to bring together new researchers and outreach volunteers, clinicians, policy makers and, as equal participants, young members of our community who lack safe, secure places to call home.

Nonprofit NW Noggin (nwnoggin.org) organizes graduates and undergraduates to collaborate and engage, building networks and inspiring people about discovery in neuroscience and art. Volunteers benefit from working across disciplines and institutions, serving as “near peer” role models, gaining skill explaining work and thinking creatively about careers. We’ve met with over 20,000 K-12 students since 2012!

Noggin loves to visit p:ear, a nonprofit for homeless youth. P:ear offers community, services, and a welcoming educational and gallery space in Portland, Oregon, filled with caring staff and volunteers for young people without safe places to sleep.

We’ve had powerful conversations with adolescents struggling to overcome drugs, anxiety, depression, abandonment, bias – and a strong sense that many people pass them by as if they weren’t valuable human members of our community.

Harris & Fiske (2006) found that people respond harshly to those in “extreme outgroups,” including those without homes. These street kids are correct – some respond to them with “dehumanized perception.” Yet by asking subjects to engage with images of outgroup members, there is more activation of frontal lobe networks essential for responding to others as relatable human beings. Young people at p:ear created landscapes on plaster brain casts that powerfully conveyed their feelings, significant locations, and both actual and aspirational aspects of their lives in our shared community.

In fall 2017, we put on a “Homelessness and the Brain” day at p:ear, and policy makers, clinicians, members of the public, young researchers from OHSU and PSU and houseless youth talked, listened and learned from each other about research on stress, anxiety, depression, sleep, emotional regulation, drugs, development, bias and resilience, and explored data, art and testimony from p:ear youth to illuminate links between a lack of affordable housing and all our brains.

LEARN MORE: Landscapes of the Brain: Seeing us all through research & art
Building excitement and awareness of discoveries in neuroscience through arts-integrated outreach across institutional, state, federal and generational lines trains new scientists to collaborate on important community concerns, and increases awareness and support for investment in brain research and the arts.

* Department of Psychology, Portland State University; ** NW Noggin (nwnoggin.org); *** Department of University Studies, Portland State University

STEM Week Oregon
2018-05-05 - 2018-05-13
WHAT: STEM Week Oregon
WHERE: All over Oregon!
WHEN: May 5 – 13th, 2018

May 5th through the 13th is STEM Week Oregon 2018, a state-wide movement to raise awareness, celebrate and engage in activities involving science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).

Celebrate STEM:
Quality STEM education is critical for our students’ academic and professional success. Engaging students, families, and community members in STEM related activities will help promote the importance — and fun — of STEM!
LEARN MORE: STEM Week Oregon

OHSU Lecture: Suzana Herculano-Houzel
2018-05-07 17:30 - 20:30 | Newmark Theater, Portland, OR
Trade Food for Thought to Power 86 BILLION Neurons

How much energy does a #brain require? How many brain cells do you have? Are we unique in terms of brain size, number of neurons, or social skills, tool use, deception, play..?
LEARN MORE HERE AT THE LINK!
Soup for Brains!

Monday, May 7, 2018
5:30 (for volunteers!)–8:30 p.m.
Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, Portland, OR 97205
Noggin volunteers should arrive by 5:30pm for set up…
If an elephant has such a large brain, why aren’t they smarter than primates? What biologic discovery led some primates to an evolutionary crossroads of cognitive capability? You may be surprised by the answer.

Suzana Herculano-Houzel, Ph.D.

Suzana Herculano-Houzel is a Brazilian-born neuroscientist and associate professor at Vanderbilt University, where she studies what different brains are made of, what changes (or doesn’t change) with different brain sizes, how much energy they cost, and what difference does all that make – especially in the context of how human brains compare to others. She recently published a trade book, The Human Advantage, telling the back story to her research on human and elephant brains – and how cooking allowed us into existence.
She is also the author of a biweekly column on the neuroscience of everyday life for Folha de São Paulo, the major newspaper in Brazil. Going on to its 11th year, the column has featured over 270 appearances since 2006. Suzana is also the author of six other books (in Portuguese) on the neuroscience of everyday life, including Our Daily Brain, Sex, Drugs, Rock’n’Roll… and Chocolate, Why is Yawning Catching? and Drops of Neuroscience for a Better Life.
She lives in Nashville, TN, with her husband, son and two dogs.
COMMITTED NOGGIN VOLUNTEERS
1. Alex Chao, Neuroscience of Creativity FRINQ (PSU)
2. Dustin Lao, Neuroscience of Creativity FRINQ (PSU)
3. King Tran, Neuroscience of Creativity FRINQ (PSU)
4. Ashley Keates, PSU
5. Heather Hamilton, PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO
6. Austin Lewis, PSU
7. Aaron Eisen, PSU
8. Jacob Schoen, OHSU Oregon National Primate Research Center

Noggin Tuesdays @ p:ear!
2018-05-08 09:30 - 11:30 | P:ear, 338 NW 6th Ave, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
WHAT: Noggin Tuesdays @ p:ear!
We did it!
Questions on zombies, sleep, humor, ear worms, and the role of various brain regions. We painted sections of the brain based on functional associations (e.g., graffiti “tags” could belong in the temporal lobe, for visual object recognition 🙂
Tagging the temporal lobe

WHERE: p:ear, 338 NW 6th Ave., Portland, OR 97209
WHEN: Tuesday, May 8, 2018, 9:30 – 11:30am

Noggin is returning to P:ear, a remarkable Portland organization aimed at building positive relationships with homeless and transitional youth through education, art and recreation to affirm their personal worth and help them create more meaningful and healthier lives…

We are excited to communicate science through the extraordinary volunteer efforts of our talented graduate and undergraduate Noggin participants from Portland State University, Oregon Health & Science University, the Pacific Northwest College of Art, and other collaborators.!

Learning about the brain, and behavior, and the evidence-based structural and functional aspects of who we are is powerful and actionable information for everyone, including young people struggling, like many, with anxiety, depression, drugs, chronic stress – and the poverty, isolation, racism, homophobia, lack of affordable housing and other factors that can impact development.
LEARN MORE: Noggin @ p:ear
COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
Jordan Ray, PSU
Jade Osilla, PSU
Aaron Eisen, PSU
Joey Seuferling, Noggin Resource Council

PCC Newberg, Color Theory with Kanani Miyamoto
2018-05-08 16:30 - 18:20 | pcc newberg, 135 Werth Blvd, Newberg, OR 97132
What: Talk about color perception with brains and projects at PCC Newberg
Where PCC Newberg, Newberg Education Center room 112, 135 Werth Blvd, Newberg, OR 97132
When: Tuesday May 8, 4:30-6:20 pm

Noggin @ Fort Vancouver!
2018-05-10 07:30 - 13:30 | Fort Vancouver High School, 5700 E 18th St, Vancouver, WA, 98661, United States
WHAT: Noggin visit to Fort Vancouver High
We did it! Questions on weed, ayahuasca, bipolar disorder, DID, hallucinations, gender identity, memory, intelligence, autism, ADHD – and sheep brains! Learn more at the link!
Trap Squad!

WHERE: Fort Vancouver High School, 5700 E 18th St, Vancouver, WA 98661
WHEN: Thursday, May 10th (& 17th), 2017, 7:25am – 2:05pm
Join us at Fort Vancouver High School to talk (and DISSECT) brains!

We’ll be returning to Fort to tackle sheep brain dissections on two visits this month…

Directional terms handout; prepared by Angela Hendrix
Sheep brain dissection; handout prepared by Angela Hendrix
Please RSVP to griesar@pdx.edu and jleake@pdx.edu…
See what we’ve done previously at the Home of the Trappers…
Brains, biofeedback & SLEEP

Ventricles in Vancouver!

CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS
Ruth Marigomen, WSUV
Iris Guttierez, WSUV
Tyler Braly, PSU
Aaron Eisen, PSU
Joey Seuferling, Noggin Resource Council
Denesa Oberbeck, OHSU/Noggin Board
Ali Mack, PSU

OHSU Lecture: Adele Diamond
2018-05-14 17:30 - 20:30 | Newmark Theater, Portland, OR
The “Secret Sauce” to Honing the Mind

New post! Learn more at the link…
Diamond advice: brains, art, stories & play

Monday, May 14, 2018
5:30pm (for Noggin volunteers!)–8:30 p.m.
Newmark Theatre
Noggin volunteers should arrive by 5:30pm for set up…

Executive function skills – self-control, perseverance, creativity – are more predictive of success than IQ. What supports and what hinders these skills? The surprisingly nutritious brain benefits of play and movement.

Adele Diamond, Ph.D.

Adele Diamond is the Canada Research Chair Professor of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. She is a member of the Royal Society of Canada and was recently recognized as one the 15 most influential neuroscientists alive today.
Prof. Diamond is at the forefront of research on ‘executive functions’ and on the brain’s prefrontal cortex on which they depend. Executive functions include ‘thinking outside the box’ (cognitive flexibility), mentally relating ideas and facts (working memory), and giving considered responses rather than impulsive ones, resisting temptations and staying focused (inhibitory control, including selective attention).
She has made discoveries that have improved treatment for two different medical disorders and discoveries that have impacted education, improving the lives of millions of children. Her work has shown that executive functions can be improved even in the very young.
Adele Diamond was educated at Swarthmore (B.A., Phi Beta Kappa), Harvard (Ph.D.), and Yale Medical School (postdoc). Her many awards include an honorary doctorate (Honoris Causa) from Ben-Gurion University, the Bronfenbrenner Award for Lifetime Contributions to Developmental Psychology in the Service of Science and Society, named a “Woman of Distinction” by the YWCA, and named one of the “2000 Outstanding Women of the 20th Century.”
COMMITTED VOLUNTEERS
1. Sun Ho Kim, Neuroscience of Creativity FRINQ (PSU)
2. Avery Crowell, Neuroscience of Creativity FRINQ (PSU)
3. Skyler Crowell, Neuroscience of Creativity FRINQ (PSU)
4. Rebecca Hood, OHSU
5. Jade Osilla, PSU
6. Ashley Keates, PSU
7. Heather Hamilton, PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO
8. Jeehoon Jung, WSU Vancouver
9. Andrew Stanley, PSU
10. Jacob Schoen, OHSU Primate Center
GET TICKETS: Nourishing Your Neurons: How you fuel your brain creates pivotal changes
LEARN ABOUT THE FIRST LECTURE WITH SUZANA HERCULANO-HOUZEL…
Soup for Brains!

How much energy does a brain require? How many brain cells do we have? Are humans unique in terms of brain size, number of neurons – or social skills, tool use, deception, or play..? How do you make “brain soup?” And what’s the best way to bring fresh cerebrums on an international flight?!

Noggin Tuesdays @ p:ear!
2018-05-15 09:30 - 11:30 | P:ear, 338 NW 6th Ave, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
WHAT: Noggin Tuesdays @ p:ear!
We did it! See what we learned at the link…
Giant brains @ p:ear!

WHERE: p:ear, 338 NW 6th Ave., Portland, OR 97209
WHEN: Tuesday, May 15, 2018, 9:30 – 11:30am

Learn about our visits so far this spring…
Tagging the temporal lobe

P:ear: “He LOVES this”

Noggin is returning to P:ear, a remarkable Portland organization aimed at building positive relationships with homeless and transitional youth through education, art and recreation to affirm their personal worth and help them create more meaningful and healthier lives…

We are excited to communicate science through the extraordinary volunteer efforts of our talented graduate and undergraduate Noggin participants from Portland State University, Oregon Health & Science University, the Pacific Northwest College of Art, and other collaborators.!

Learning about the brain, and behavior, and the evidence-based structural and functional aspects of who we are is powerful and actionable information for everyone, including young people struggling, like many, with anxiety, depression, drugs, chronic stress – and the poverty, isolation, racism, homophobia, lack of affordable housing and other factors that can impact development.

LEARN MORE: Noggin @ p:ear
COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
Justin Navarro, PSU
Aaron Eisen, PSU
Ashley Keates, PSU

Noggin @ Fort Vancouver
2018-05-17 07:30 - 13:00 | Fort Vancouver High School, 5700 E 18th St, Vancouver, WA, 98661, United States
WHAT: Noggin visit to Fort Vancouver High
WHERE: Fort Vancouver High School, 5700 E 18th St, Vancouver, WA 98661
WHEN: Thursday, May 17th, 2017, 7:25am – 2:05pm ****RESCHEDULING****
Join us at Fort Vancouver High School to talk (and DISSECT) brains!

We’ll be returning to Fort to tackle sheep brain dissections on two visits this month…
Please RSVP to griesar@pdx.edu and jleake@pdx.edu…
See what we did last week!
Trap Squad!

See what we’ve done previously at the Home of the Trappers…
Brains, biofeedback & SLEEP

Ventricles in Vancouver!

CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS
Joey Seuferling, Noggin Resource Council
Iris Guttierez, WSUV
Denesa Oberbeck, OHSU Behavioral Neuroscience/NW Noggin Board
Aaron Eisen, PSU
Veronika Lobova, WSUV

STEAM Night at Boise-Eliot/Humboldt
2018-05-17 17:30 - 19:30 | Boise Eliot/Humboldt
WHAT: STEAM Night event to celebrate STEAM education and engage in the community!
We did it! Learn more at the link…
Applied neuroscience – & STEAM

From STEAM Instructional Specialist Darcy Gill: “Thank you again for coming to our STEAM Night–your station was definitely the talk of the event. I had students do a short write up on their favorite part of STEAM Night and the brains came up a lot! Thanks for the excellent experience you gave our students and families.”

WHERE: Boise-Eliot/Humboldt PK-8 School – 620 N Fremont St, Portland, OR 97227
WHEN: May 17th from 5:30-7:30
Boise-Eliot/Humboldt is a STEAM-focused public school!

LEARN MORE: Boise-Eliot/Humboldt STEAM Vision Statement
From Darshanpreet “Darcy” Gill, the STEAM Instructional Specialist: “So pumped! The brains are already the talk of STEAM Night!”

From their website…
STEAM education is active and has student-centered learning at its core. Through a focus on inquiry-based instruction, we seek to build a STEAM program that focuses on integrated units of study that are place-based and relevant to our students and community.
​We will use experiential learning opportunities to ignite curiosity and provide an opportunity for reflection, challenging students’ initial beliefs and guiding them in the formation of deeper questions from multiple perspectives. Through this work, we hope to build a program that connects the classroom to stewardship empowering Boise-Eliot/Humboldt students to take action and educate others as they move along the path toward college and 21st century careers.
The Portland Metro STEM Partnership is a regional collaboration of public and private organizations with a shared goal of transforming science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education for K-12 students.
Through the development and implementation of innovative STEAM teaching and learning practices, all Oregon students will develop the necessary scientific literacy and technological knowledge they need to excel as citizens of our increasingly complex world.
The STEAM transformation of Boise-Eliot/Humboldt will be accomplished by striving towards the following student goals/outcomes:
1. Motivational Resilience: Constructive Coping
Students will demonstrate proficiency in adaptive strategizing skills and persistence in the face of academic challenges, obstacles, and setbacks
2. Motivational Resilience: Academic Engagement
Students demonstrate high quality participation in academic work, including effort and enthusiasm
3. Cognitive Skills: Metacognitive Skills
Students will know a variety of problem solving strategies and tools and be able to choose and strategically use these tools
4. Cognitive Skills: Problem Solving
Students will be able to identify, frame, and solve complex problems and apply knowledge and skills to novel problems and/or situations across STEAM subjects
5. Academic Identity
Students will feel a sense of belonging, competency, autonomy and purpose as they view themselves and their potential to enjoy and succeed in STEAM classes and careers
We visited STEAM Night at another Portland Public School earlier this year..!
STEAM Ahead @ Ionotropic Irvington

Come join us! Please RSVP to griesar@pdx.edu and jleake@pdx.edu
COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
McKenzie Figuracion, PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO
Sam Carpenter, OHSU
Joey Seuferling, Noggin Resource Council
Jacob Schoen, PSU/Noggin Resource Council

OHSU Lecture: Bita Moghaddam
2018-05-21 17:30 - 20:30 | Newmark Theater, Portland, OR
Anxiety and Learning Problems: Could it be the Fats you Eat?
Monday, May 21, 2018
5:30pm (for Noggin volunteers!)–8:30 p.m.
Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, Portland, OR 97205
“I’m here to talk about two of my favorite things,” began Dr. Moghaddam. “Brains – and eating fat!” More details at the link!
Diet vs. Brain

Noggin volunteers should arrive by 5:30pm for set up…

As essential nutrient our brains need for developing and maintaining our mental muscle and moods has been systematically removed from the modern diet – for convenience and “health food.” Without it, we can’t think, focus or control ourselves as well. Find out how brain food matters in youth and in age.

Bita Moghaddam, Ph.D.
Bita Moghaddam, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Behavioral Neuroscience, OHSU. (OHSU/Fritz Liedtke)
Bita Moghaddam is the Chair of the Department of Behavioral Neuroscience at OHSU. She received a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Kansas and postdoctoral training in pharmacology at Yale University. She joined the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University in 1990 where she quickly rose to the rank of full professor. In 2003 she moved to the University of Pittsburgh as professor of Neuroscience and Psychiatry. She joined OHSU in 2017. Her research focuses on understanding the neuronal basis of complex behaviors that are critical to mental health, and is distinguished by the substantial impact on the field (H-index 68, overall citations ~ 14,000).
COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
1. Lola Latham, Neuroscience of Creativity FRINQ (PSU)
2. Melissa Purdy, Neuroscience of Creativity FRINQ (PSU)
3. Abeer Alabbad, Neuroscience of Creativity FRINQ (PSU)
4. Jade Osilla, PSU
5. Alex Kunz, PSU
6. Sara Moreno, PSU
7. Sulema Rodriguez, PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO
8. Madeline Ogle, PSU
9. Joey Seuferling, Noggin Resource Council
10. Angel Nichols, PSU
11. Kate Gilworth, Neuroscience of Creativity FRINQ (PSU)
12. Ashley Keates, PSU
13. Veronika Lobova, WSUV

LEARN ABOUT THE FIRST LECTURE WITH SUZANA HERCULANO-HOUZEL…
Soup for Brains!

How much energy does a brain require? How many brain cells do we have? Are humans unique in terms of brain size, number of neurons – or social skills, tool use, deception, or play..? How do you make “brain soup?” And what’s the best way to bring fresh cerebrums on an international flight?!

LEARN ABOUT THE SECOND LECTURE WITH ADELE DIAMOND…
Diamond advice: brains, art, stories & play

What’s the best way to educate a child? How do we help them grow, and develop self-control, focused attention, working memory, social skills, discipline and the motivation to meet life’s challenges and persevere? What have we learned from brain research about the role of schools and families, academics, assessments – and play?

Noggin Tuesdays @ p:ear!
2018-05-22 09:30 - 11:30 | P:ear, 338 NW 6th Ave, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
WHAT: Noggin Tuesdays @ p:ear!
WHERE: p:ear, 338 NW 6th Ave., Portland, OR 97209
WHEN: Tuesday, May 22, 2018, 9:30 – 11:30am
We did it! Music, art, brains, storytelling, science!
Music & Brain: Rewarding Rhythms for Houseless Youth

THIS WEEK: MUSIC AND THE BRAIN!

Jesse Hamlin from Shannon Entropy & Internet Beef (& Noggin Fest!) explores some new music + neuroscience outreach ideas this week at our favorite community resource for young people who need access to safe, secure places to call home…

LEARN MORE: Music Brain Pilot Curriculum Jesse Hamlin
LEARN MORE: Community Music for Human Development _ A Brain-Centered Approach
See what we’ve been up to at p:ear earlier this month…
Giant brains @ p:ear!

Tagging the temporal lobe

P:ear: “He LOVES this”

Noggin is returning to P:ear, a remarkable Portland organization aimed at building positive relationships with homeless and transitional youth through education, art and recreation to affirm their personal worth and help them create more meaningful and healthier lives…

We are excited to communicate science through the extraordinary volunteer efforts of our talented graduate and undergraduate Noggin participants from Portland State University, Oregon Health & Science University, the Pacific Northwest College of Art, and other collaborators.!

Learning about the brain, and behavior, and the evidence-based structural and functional aspects of who we are is powerful and actionable information for everyone, including young people struggling, like many, with anxiety, depression, drugs, chronic stress – and the poverty, isolation, racism, homophobia, lack of affordable housing and other factors that can impact development.
LEARN MORE: Noggin @ p:ear
Join us! Please RSVP to griesar@pdx.edu and jleake@pdx.edu
CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS
Jesse Hamlin, PSU/Noggin Resource Council
Maverick Johnson, PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO
Jade Osilla, PSU
Jordan Ray, PSU
Joey Seuferling, Noggin Resource Council
Jade Osilla, PSU
Ashley Keates, PSU

Health Fair @ Jefferson High School!
2018-05-23 11:00 - 12:30 | Jefferson High School
WHAT: High School Health Fair
WHERE: Jefferson High School, 5210 N Kerby St., Portland, OR 97217
WHEN: Wednesday, May 23rd from 11:15-12:30

Lynn Zimmerman always organizes a terrific mid-day outreach opportunity that draws crowds of curious high schoolers at the Home of the Democrats in North Portland! Learn more about this event from past year’s visits:
Lunchtime learning @ Jeff!

Healthy Gyri @ Jeff!

Please RSVP to griesar@pdx.edu and jleake@pdx.edu – thank you for sharing your knowledge of the brain and behavior & cheers!
COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
Heather Hamilton, PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO
Joey Seuferling, Noggin Resource Council
Ruth Marigomen, Noggin Resource Council/WSUV
Iris Gutierrez, WSUV

Noggin @ Lakeshore Elementary!
2018-05-24 09:00 - 11:30 | Lakeshore Elementary School, 9300 NW 21st Ave., Vancouver, WA, 98665, United States
WHAT: Noggin at Lakeshore Elementary School (Vancouver School District)
We did it!
WATCH THIS SPACE: Post by Denesa Oberbeck coming soon

WHERE: Lakeshore Elementary, 9300 NW 21st Ave. Vancouver, WA 98665
WHEN: Thursday May 24th, 9:00 am-11:25 am

Brains and art at the Home of the Seagulls!
We’re visiting with Mrs. Moody’s 3rd grade class… 🙂

COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
Iris Guttierez, WSUV
Ruth Marigomen, WSUV
Joey Seuferling, Noggin Resource Council
Denesa Oberbeck, Noggin Brain Board
Anthony Almonte, WSUV

Noggin @ Helen Gordon
2018-05-24 10:00 - 11:50 | Helen Gordon Childhood Development Center, 1609 SW 12th Ave, Portland, OR, 97201, United States
WHAT: Noggin at Helen Gordon (and Vikings kids included)
We did it! Amazing 3, 4 and 5 year old scientists and artists!
Meet your brain cells!

“I like having conversations with kids. Grownups never ask me what my third favorite reptile is.” – Simon Holland
WHERE: Helen Gordon Child Development Center, Portland State University, 1609 SW 12th Ave, Portland, OR 97201
WHEN: Thursday, May 24th, 10am – 11:50pm in the Butterfly room

The classroom teacher is teaching about the brain this week, and the children are especially interested in the brain processes of smell (what happens when you smell a flower?) and springtime (pollen, allergies,…)
LEARN MORE about Noggin pre-K/Kindergarten outreach: I am thankful…for my brain!
COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
Ashley Keates, PSU
Justin Navarro, PSU
Jeremiah Hansen, PSU
