NW NOGGIN: Neuroscience outreach group (growing in networks)

Noggin/UCSD @ Carson Elementary
2018-11-05 08:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Carson Elementary School, 6905 Kramer St, San Diego, CA, 92111, United States
WHAT: NW Noggin + UC San Diego Neuroscience @ Carson Elementary School
We did it! Post coming soon…

WHERE: Carson Elementary School, 6905 Kramer St, San Diego, CA 92111
WHEN: Monday, November 5, 8:00am – 12:30pm

Contact: Rob Corona, MSAP Resource Teacher, SDUSD Office of School Innovations
Participants
Aaron Eisen, PSU
Louis Sumrall, PSU
Jesse Benefiel, PSU
Mary Lerner, PSU
Sai Kiersarsky, PSU
Heather Hamilton, PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO
Jonathan Uriarte-Lopez, PSU
Jordan Ray, PSU
Jade Osilla, PSU
Denesa Lockwood, OHSU
Angela Gonzalez, WSUV
Bill Griesar, NW Noggin/PSU/OHSU
Jeff Leake, NW Noggin/PSU

NW Noggin + UCSD Neuro K-12 Outreach
2018-11-05 - 2018-11-06
WHAT: Noggin + UCSD Neuro outreach in San Diego Public Schools
We did it! Learn more here…
Synapsing in San Diego @ SfN!

WHERE: Linda Vista Elementary, Carson and Montgomery schools
WHEN: Monday (11/5) – Tuesday (11/6)

NW Noggin is thrilled to partner (again!) with the San Diego Unified School District Office of School Innovations and University of California Neuroscience on new outreach to academic priority classrooms during the Society for Neuroscience conference!

Thanks to Lynnie Fein-Schafer and Lindsay Altidor from the Society for Neuroscience for joining us at Carson and Montgomery, and for Javier How and Nadine Heyworth from UCSD Neurosciences for brains and enthusiastic outreach engagement!
Public School Outreach Schedule

MONDAY (8 – 12:30), November 5: Carson Elementary School
MONDAY (12:30 – 3:15), November 5: Linda Vista Elementary School
TUESDAY (8:00 – 3:15), November 6: Montgomery Middle School

See what we did the last time the conference was in town!
Cortical Connections in San Diego Schools!

Noggin will present the keynote address at the SfN Brain Awareness Event on Saturday, November 3, and we’ll follow with multiple school visits – with plenty of brains and art – during the week!

Public Awareness of Neuroscience Poster Event!
2018-11-04 09:00 - 10:00 | San Diego Convention Center, 111 W Harbor Dr, San Diego, CA, 92101, United States
WHAT: Noggin Theme J (Public Awareness of Neuroscience) poster presentation at SfN
We did it! More details below…

WHERE: San Diego Convention Center: SDCC Halls B-H; 0.26.02SU/LLL55
WHEN: Sunday Nov 4, 2018 9:00am – 10am

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 (2007) 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.

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
LEARN MORE: Landscapes of the Brain: Seeing us all through research & art
LEARN MORE: NW Noggin on homelessness and the brain

Noggin Keynote @ SfN Brain Awareness Campaign Event
2018-11-03 14:30 - 16:00 | San Diego Convention Center, 111 W Harbor Dr, San Diego, CA, 92101, United States
WHAT: Noggin Keynote Address @ SfN Brain Awareness Campaign Event
We did it! Learn more at the link…
Synapsing in San Diego @ SfN!

WHERE: San Diego Convention Center, SDCC 16
WHEN: Saturday, November 3, 2:30-4:00pm

Organizer/Moderator: Society for Neuroscience

CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT NOGGIN PLANS AT SfN
NW Noggin: Action and Potential in Outreach, Education, and Research
We are deeply honored to receive this invitation, and enjoyed highlighting our creative and effective outreach volunteers!

Celebrate brain awareness by sharing your outreach achievements with Brain Awareness Week organizers from around the world. Learn how award winners from the Brain Awareness Video Contest, the Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience, and the National Science Olympiad are raising brain awareness. Plus, hear from Bill Griesar and Jeff Leake, the founders of NW Noggin, a robust, creative, and largely volunteer-driven nonprofit organization that brings scientists, artists, and students of all ages together to share their expertise and excitement about neuroscience. *Diversity-Themed Session

PRESENTATION SLIDES: Brain Awareness SLIDES 2018 (ppt; compressed file)
PRESENTATION SLIDES: Brain Awareness SLIDES 2018 (pdf; compressed file)
AND…MAKE YOUR OWN PIPE CLEANER NEURON!

“This is a GFP expressing glutamatergic neuron!” Pipe cleaners provided by SfN and the NIH BUILD EXITO program at Portland State…
LEARN MORE: STEAM Art Projects
We visited San Diego public schools during the conference, as we did in 2016…

LEARN MORE: NW Noggin + UCSD Neuro K-12 Outreach
LEARN MORE: Cortical Connections in San Diego Schools!
And as we did during SfN in Washington DC in 2017…

LEARN MORE: From classrooms to Congress!
We also presented our SfN poster during this event…

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 (2007) 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.

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
LEARN MORE: Landscapes of the Brain: Seeing us all through research & art
LEARN MORE: NW Noggin on homelessness and the brain

The Portland State University Neuroscience Club will also present a poster…
Outreach to diverse populations by Portland State University Neuroscience Club as a method to promote and enrich neuroscience research
Benefiel, J., Schmidt, J., Eisen, A., Ray, R., Sumrall, L., Chapek, M., Lerner, M., Garduno, R., Uriarte, J., Hamilton, H., Kiersarsky, S., Javaheri, A., Helback, O.

Our motto at Portland State University (PSU) is “Let Knowledge Serve the City.” The PSU Neuroscience Club, founded in 2012, has over 300 members, and serves to make neuroscience resources widely available. Our club has traditionally focused on undergraduates, but we aim to increase outreach in diverse populations, including diversity in age, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, religion, and mental health in order to expand opportunities and benefit the field. The club has analyzed three points of consideration in the context of diversity, including (1) what should outreach try to accomplish, (2) what should outreach consist of, and (3) what resources should outreach provide. The first point addresses the inconsistent reach of resources among communities, inequality which denies opportunities and excludes valuable viewpoints from the field. Outreach should strive to be the solution, offering education, opportunity, and equity to those who may otherwise be overlooked. Those who haven’t examined anatomy can have a chance to; those who have never talked to a neuroscientist can interact with scientists and students at length; and those who never thought they could contribute to the field might reconsider. How these goals are accomplished falls into the second point of what outreach should consist of. As in any communicative relationship, outreach involves the flow of information, and both outreach participant and community members have much to offer. Partnering with on campus organizations that promote diversity (e.g., NIH BUILD EXITO, PSU’s Equity & Empowerment Corps) is key. To ensure engagement, people have to be motivated or no progress can be made. A variety of methods have and will be used to engage attention in the club’s efforts, including the arts, games and one on one education. Our club uses low cost, portable devices to measure electrophysiological responses, the direct handling of actual human and animal brains, and games based on brainwaves. Providing resources that invite engagement and garner interest are required for successful, memorable outreach. The final concept goes beyond the resources of the present and provides resources for the future. An outreach experience should make access to the field a real possibility. The availability of paid internships, jobs, opportunities to get involved, scholarships, and creative outlets for expression can remain an active part of one’s life, even once the Neuroscience Club has left. These three points drive our club towards more expansive, effective outreach.

Keywords: diversity, neuroscience, educational outreach
A THIRD Noggin poster was prepared by PSU Psychology undergraduate and Noggin volunteer Jordan Ray!
Democratizing electrophysiological research technology for educational enrichment, public science, and inspiring the future generation of STEM researchers

Ray, J.* **, Griesar, W.S.* ** ***
At any given time, in every corner of our bodies, we experience millions of electrical fluctuations. These minute changes in voltage regulate the functions of our nervous system, instructions to and from the brain and spinal cord, directing neurons to fire in specific spatial and temporal sequence. These are exciting, critical events that captivate the minds of young students we meet through outreach with the nonprofit NW Noggin. However, it’s one thing to talk about electrophysiology, but why not demonstrate it in the classroom in real time?
All of these electrical signatures can be captured, amplified and measured using electrophysiological recording equipment. Traditionally, use of these systems required large financial investment. Research grade electrocardiogram (ECG), electroencephalography (EEG), and electrodermal activity (EDA) equipment are costly to obtain and not easy to transport. For these reasons, they are typically inaccessible to the average K-12 student at public school. Yet advancements in technology now offer the opportunity for greater public accessibility.
The aim of this project was to assemble low-cost equipment that could measure ECG, EDA, EMG, and EEG to educate kids in public school, and allow them to conduct experiments in their own environment. Through builds using various Arduino microcontrollers, simple analog voltage sensors, and homemade, DIY cabling solutions, we have recorded ECG, EDA and EMG. With the addition of an inexpensive OpenBCI Ganglion board, we can record EEG signals as well.
This opens up a world of discovery for kids at the institutions we serve, allowing students to learn more about technology surrounding electrophysiological equipment while also being able to hook up these systems and see voltage changes in real time. Many find the ability to assemble equipment at home a revelation and have been given resources to put together their own kits. We hope to expand this idea into inexpensive open source Arduino kits for students and teachers to use in their own classrooms.
Members of the neuroscience research community should connect with students in our own communities. Taking time to democratize research and information helps encourage the next generation of scientists. I believe that the average researcher/student/professor/community member deserves intuitive and flexible equipment that can help us discover more about electrophysiological aspects of ourselves and the world around us.

*Portland State University; **NW Noggin (nwnoggin.org), ***OHSU

CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT NOGGIN PLANS AT SfN

Society for Neuroscience conference!
2018-11-03 - 2018-11-07 | San Diego Convention Center, 111 W Harbor Dr, San Diego, CA, 92101, United States
WHAT: Society for Neuroscience conference
We did it! Here’s our first post on our keynote delivered at the Brain Awareness event…
Synapsing in San Diego @ SfN!

And more from the PSU Neuroscience Club on how they made it to the conference and to San Diego Public Schools…
Noggins & Noodles @ SfN!

WHERE: San Diego Convention Center, 111 W Harbor Dr, San Diego, CA 92101
WHEN: November 3 – 7, 2018

NW Noggin is THRILLED to be formally invited to offer the keynote address on Brain Awareness at the Society for Neuroscience conference this fall!

LEARN MORE: What is NW Noggin?
SATURDAY (2:00 – 4:00pm), November 3
SfN/Dana Foundation Brain Awareness Campaign Event
(Noggin volunteers: please arrive @ 2:00pm to set up posters)

We’ll open the session on Saturday, November 3 with the keynote. We’ll then make pipe cleaner neurons with conference attendees! Afterwards, along with undergraduates from the PSU Neuroscience Club, and many innovative brain awareness professionals from around the world, we’ll present our outreach posters. The Brain Awareness event will run from 2:30 – 4:00pm…

PRESENTATION SLIDES: Brain Awareness SLIDES 2018 (ppt; compressed file)
PRESENTATION SLIDES: Brain Awareness SLIDES 2018 (pdf; compressed file)
LEARN MORE: Noggin Keynote @ SfN Brain Awareness Campaign Event

Photo courtesy of Society for Neuroscience; conference in Washington DC
We’ll also bring our knowledgeable graduate and undergraduate volunteers from PSU (TEN PSU Neuroscience Club members were granted complimentary SfN registration!), OHSU and other Northwest campuses, along with students (and extra brains!) from the UC San Diego Department of Neuroscience into academic priority classrooms in the San Diego Unified School District (including Linda Vista, Montgomery and Carson) during SfN…

Public School Outreach Schedule

MONDAY (8 – 12:30), November 5: Carson Elementary School
MONDAY (12:30 – 3:15), November 5: Linda Vista Elementary School
TUESDAY (8:00 – 3:15), November 6: Montgomery Middle School

See what we did the last time we visited SfN in San Diego…
Cortical Connections in San Diego Schools!

We’ll also attend the SfN Presidential Reception as invited guests…

LEARN MORE: Neuroscience 2018 Presidential Reception
More on our poster detailing our ongoing collaboration with p:ear…

LEARN MORE: Noggin + p:ear
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.

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
LEARN MORE: Additional Noggin/PSU Neuroscience posters at SfN 2018

PSU Neuro Club: Cranial Creepers Halloween Party!
2018-10-25 19:00 - 22:00 | Smith Center, Portland State University, 1825 SW Broadway, Portland, OR, 97201, United States
WHAT: PSU Neuro Club Cranial Creepers Halloween Party!
WHERE: Smith Memorial Student Union, Room 333, Portland State University, 1825 SW Broadway, Portland, OR 97201
WHEN: Thursday, October 25th, 7 – 10pm

Fresh off the success of NOGGIN FEST, the PSU Neuroscience Club is gathering for another party this week before heading to the Society for Neuroscience conference in November!!

Noggin @ Lewis STEAM Night
2018-10-19 17:30 - 19:00 | Lewis Elementary School, 4401 SE Evergreen St, Portland, 97206, United States
WHAT: Noggin at Lewis Elementary School STEAM NIGHT!
We did it!! Learn more at the link…
Sciencepalooza!

WHERE: Lewis Elementary School, 4401 SE Evergreen St, Portland, OR 97206
WHEN: Friday, October 19, 5:30 – 7:00pm

We’re at Table 3 (NEUROSCIENCE) (and ART!) 🧠🎨

It’s STEAM NIGHT (our favorite kind of night 🙂 at Lewis Elementary! Come join us to examine brains and make brain cells. This is a super energetic evening event, with plenty of curious kids and parents – and we plan to head over to the first night of NOGGIN FEST 2018 around 7:15pm to hear bands, listen to research speakers, view art, and enjoy more of a brainy good time!
NOGGIN FEST 2018!!!!

LEARN MORE: NOGGIN FEST 2018!!!!

COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
Aaron Eisen, PSU
Maverick Grey, PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO
Madi Cho-Richmond, PSU
Mary Lerner, PSU
Emmalyn Dewing, PSU
Jordan Ray, PSU

NOGGIN FEST 2018!!!!
2018-10-19 - 2018-10-20 | Watershed PDX, 5040 SE Milwaukie Ave, Portland, OR, 97202, United States
WHAT: The SECOND ANNUAL NOGGIN FEST!!!
WHERE: Watershed PDX, 5040 SE Milwaukie Ave, Portland, OR 97202
WHEN: Friday, October 19, 6pm – 11pm & Saturday, October 20, 12pm – 12am
FACEBOOK LINK: NOGGIN FEST 2018!

The largest Art & Neuroscience festival in the Pacific Northwest! Entirely student organized and run, thanks to the Neuroscience Club at Portland State University, and our enthusiastic multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional Noggin volunteers!
LEARN MORE: Noggin Fest 2018: The Beauty of the Brain
Friday, October 19, 6pm – 10pm

6:00 PM

Doors

6:15 PM

Stargasm

7:00 PM

Mouthbreather

8:00 PM

Disenchanter

9:00 PM

Shannon Entropy

10:00 PM

B*****s of the Sun

Saturday, October 20, 2018

Saturday, October 20, 12pm – 12am

12:00 PM

Doors

12:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Art and Science Workshops, Art Auction, Raffle (Kid Friendly! Come play with brains)

3:15 PM

Speaker: Michelle Espy

4:00 PM

Super Secret Band

4:30 PM

Speaker: Eric Feczko

5:00 PM

Jazz Boyfriends

5:35 PM

Speaker: Amber Schwartz

6:00 PM

When We Met

6:35 PM

Speaker: Jonathan Horey

7:00 PM

Human Ottoman

8:00 PM

B.R.U.C.E.

9:00 PM

Internet Beef

10:00 PM

The Mercury Tree

11:00 PM

Karma Rivera

PRINT: Noggin Fest Press Release
THE RETURN OF NOGGINFEST IS AT HAND!
with musical performances by:
Karma Rivera
The Mercury Tree
B*****s of the Sun
Internet Beef
When We Met
BRUCE
Disenchanter
Shannon Entropy
Mouthbreather
Human Ottoman
Jazz Boyfriends
Super Secret Band
Stargasm
Lectures by
Dr. Jonathan Horey M.D.
Michelle Espy
Amber Schwartz
Eric Feczko

Art on display by:
Sienna Morris Numberism Artist
Kindra Crick Art
Haley Jensen Photography @thebonegoddess
Jason Simpson @for3stpunk
Merry Jo Carter @momomoj0
Alison Dennis @drsomethingmusic
Samantha Coiner
Mirabai Scholz – @marigoldcats
Sam Kitzberger – @kitzbergersam
Pilar Pennell – http://pilarvioletpennell.com
Amy Woelbeast – @babayagz
Fisher Jones @princesslimerence
& More

Art & Science Workshops by
NW Noggin
Sarah Vitak
Drumming Workshop by
Fish Martinez
Catering by: Dogs and Fries
Photobooth by: Moto Foto
Photography by: Roderick Allen Minch

Sponsors:
Active Recovery TMS
Portland Radio Project
Radio Hot Tub
Tender Loving Empire
Orox Leather Co.
Funhouse Brews
Portland U-Brew & Unicorn Brewing
Fort George Brewery
Tender Loving Empire
Budd + Finn
PSU Bike Hub
Eddie Bauer
Nothing Bundt Cakes
Biting Duck Press
All Ages
Suggested Donation of $5-10
This event is a fundraiser for NW Noggin, an art and neuroscience educational outreach group. Check out nwnoggin.org to learn more.
Check out what happened during last year’s inaugural event!
Noggin Fest 2017!

Noggin @ OHSU
2018-10-18 13:00 - 14:00 | OHSU, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland, OR, 97239-3098, United States
WHAT: Visit to OHSU Behavioral Neuroscience
WHERE: Room TBD; OHSU, 3181 S.W. Sam Jackson Park Rd., Portland, Oregon 97239-3098
WHEN: Thursday, October 18, 2018, 1:00 – 2:00pm

We’ll visit Pill Hill to discuss outreach opportunities for research graduates and postdocs in academic priority Portland and Vancouver public schools, the p:ear homeless youth center, rural Northwest communities, and in San Diego Unified Public Schools during the Society for Neuroscience conference this fall…
We’ll also discuss opportunities to partner with local artists to present collaborative presentations on research and art in public settings, from classrooms to pubs!
COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
Heather Hamilton, BUILD EXITO/Portland State University
Allie Clark, OHSU

PRESENTATION SLIDES (ppt): Brain Awareness SLIDES 2018
PRESENTATION SLIDES (pdf): Brain Awareness SLIDES 2018 NEW

Noggin @ Creative Science
2018-10-16 10:15 - 14:30 | Creative Science (PPS) K-8, 1231 SE 92nd Ave, Portland, OR, 97216, United States
WHAT: Noggin visit to Creative Science School (Portland Public Schools)
We did it! Learn more here…
“You get me!” @ Creative Science

WHERE: Creative Science School @ Clark, 1231 SE 92nd Ave, Portland, OR 97216; Head to the main school office to sign in for NW Noggin
WHEN: Tuesday, October 16, 2018, 10:15am – 2:30pm
CLASS ONE: 10:25 – 11:12
CLASS TWO: 11:15 – 12:02
CLASS THREE: 12:05 – 12:20 & 1:05 – 1:37 (lunch in the middle)
CLASS FOUR: 1:40 – 2:27
CONTACT: Brandan McClain, Language Arts

Volunteers will answer questions, and discuss brain development and the neuroscience of creativity with middle school students at this Portland Public School. The teachers will have nitrile gloves ready for brain handling, along with colorful pipe cleaners (~ 20/student) for building brain cells!

LEARN MORE: STEAM Art Projects
We’re told that students would appreciate a basic introduction to the brain, including some details about brain cells (neurons) – and networks of neurons and what they can do. We can discuss various brain lobes and their associated functions, too…
The questions that the teachers are organizing the day around are:
How can I create and strengthen positive connections in my brain that will help me be successful in school and life? How can knowledge of how the brain works help us to make a healthier community at Creative Science School?
See what we did last time we visited Creative Science..!
Creativity and Science

Please RSVP to griesar@pdx.edu and jleake@pdx.edu
COMMITTED VOLUNTEERS
Jacob Schoen, OHSU
Krystal Nguyen, PSU
Jade Osilla, PSU
Gwen Conlee, PSU
Iris Guttierez, WSUV
Larry Rabinowitz, PSU
Sara Babij, PSU
McKenzie Figuracion, PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO
Aaron Eisen, PSU
Sai Kiersarsky, PSU

PSU Neuro Club POSTER REVIEW
2018-10-11 18:30 - 20:30 | Smith Center, Portland State University, 1825 SW Broadway, Portland, OR, 97201, United States
WHAT: PSU Neuroscience Club Poster Presentation Review
WHERE: Smith Memorial Student Union (Room 323), Portland State University
WHEN: Thursday, October 11, 6:30 – 8:30pm
Come and preview the poster which will be presented at the Society for Neuroscience conference!!

LEARN MORE: Society for Neuroscience conference!

Noggin @ Willamina!
2018-10-11 07:45 - 12:00 | Willamina High School, 1100 N.E. Oaken Hills Dr., Willamina, OR, 97396, United States
WHAT: Noggin visit to Willamina High School
WHERE: Willamina High School, 1100 N.E. Oaken Hills Dr., Willamina, OR 97396
WHEN: Thursday, October 11, 7:450am – noon

Assembly begins @ 8:00am!

Noggin @ Amity!
2018-10-10 07:30 - 15:00 | Amity High School, 503 Oak Ave, Amity, OR, 97101, United States
WHAT: Noggin visit to Amity High School
WHERE: Amity High School, 503 Oak Ave, Amity, OR 97101
WHEN: Wednesday, October 10, 7:30am – 3:00pm
Contact: Chris Daniels, Principal

7:50am: First group of 9th grade students will go to the presentation. After the presentation, they will join the rest of the 9th grade in a round robin discussion with industry professionals.
9:00am – 10:30am: Middle school students
10:50am: Second group of 9th grade students.
12:45pm: First group of 10th grade students will go to the presentation.
1:50pm: Second group of 10th grade students.

Noggin @ Siletz Valley!
2018-10-09 08:00 - 15:00 | Siletz Valley Early College Academy, 245 NW James Franks Ave, Siletz, 97380, United States
WHAT: Noggin visit to Siletz Valley School
WHERE: Siletz Valley Early College Academy, 245 NW James Franks Ave, Siletz, OR 97380
WHEN: Tuesday, October 9, 8:00am – 3:00pm
The first day of our Spirit Mountain Community Fund supported outreach project!

8:15am – 8:45am
Siletz Valley Gymnasium
Storytelling/Dancing/Group introductions

8:50am – 11:30am
Brains room
Pipe cleaner neuron building/Gel neuron making
Puppets
Music

11:30am – 12:40pm Lunch

12:40pm – 3:00pm
Brains room
Pipe cleaner neuron building/Gel neuron making
Puppets
Music

LEARN MORE: Noggin + Storytelling + Song @ Siletz Valley
LEARN MORE: Synapses & Stories: Coyote, Grizzly & their Brains!
LEARN MORE: Synapses, Stories & Song!
More details coming soon!
CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS
1. Jordan Ray, PSU
2. Denessa Oberbeck, OHSU, Noggin Brain Board
3. Joey Seuferling, Noggin Resource Council
4. Sami Friedrich, OHSU
5. Sulema Rodriguez, PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO
6. Ana Mello (Siletz)
7. Sara Moreno, PSU
8. Jacob Schoen, OHSU National Primate Research Center
9. Ashley Keates, PSU
10. Bill Griesar, NW Noggin/PSU/OHSU
11. Jeff Leake, NW Noggin/PSU
12. Aaron Eisen, PSU

Synapses, Stories & Song!
2018-10-08 - 2018-10-11
WHAT: Spirit Mountain Community Fund supported art and neuroscience outreach to tribal schools

We did it!!
Until the story takes shape

In the Spirit of Learning

Joanne Trzcinski on Synapses, Stories & Song!

Watch this space: More posts, pictures and research links coming soon!!

WHERE: Siletz Valley, Amity & Willamina schools
WHEN: October 8 – 11, 2018

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!”

With support from the Spirit Mountain Community Fund, and in collaboration with the Oregon Pacific Area Health Education Center (OPAHEC)…

And through a partnership with the Native American Network at Intel (iNAN), which is developing 3D printed brain sets, bound books of stories, research, art projects and songs, and “Noggin classroom brain kits” (complete with pipe cleaners, recycled plastic brains, electrophysiology recording devices and laminated art project instructions)…

…we are bringing twelve undergraduate and graduate student volunteers studying neuroscience and art to the Lincoln County and Willamina School District October 8 – 11 for three, day long visits aimed at making connections between figures in Grande Ronde and Siletz tribal stories (including Coyote, Crow and Grizzly) and their relevant neuroanatomy…

Fish Martinez, aka 28 Tha Native, is joining us all three days to tell stories, answer questions, hold brains, make music and create art with students at Siletz Valley, Amity and Willamina schools…

And puppeteer Ana Lucia Mello is making puppets with K-12 students and presenting on her collaboration with the Nez Perce throughout Tuesday at Siletz Valley…

LEARN MORE: Synapses & Stories: Coyote, Grizzly & their Brains!
Schedule
Monday, October 8: Travel to Siletz, OR
STAY: Elizabeth Oceanfront Suites, 232 SW Elizabeth St, Newport, OR 97365

ROOMS1. Jordan Ray & Aaron Eisen2. Joey Seuferling3. Leota Wolford & Sami Friedrich4. Ana Lucia Mello5. Jacob Schoen & Ashley Keates6. Sara Moreno & Sulema Rodriguez7. Denesa Lockwood8. Bill Griesar & Jeff Leake9. Anthony “Fish” Martinez (28 Tha Native)
Tuesday, October 9
OUTREACH: Noggin @ Siletz Valley!
Siletz Valley Early College Academy (8:00am – 3:15pm)
We did it!

STAY: Spirit Mountain Casino, 27100 SW Salmon River Hwy, Grand Ronde, OR 97347

ROOMS1. Jordan Ray & Aaron Eisen2. Joey Seuferling3. Leota Wolford & Sami Friedrich4. Jacob Schoen & Ashley Keates5. Sara Moreno6. Denesa Lockwood7. Bill Griesar & Jeff Leake8. Theresa Smith9. Anthony “Fish” Martinez (28 Tha Native)

Wednesday, October 10
OUTREACH: Noggin @ Amity K-12
Amity K-12 School (7:45am – 3:00pm)

STAY: Spirit Mountain Casino, 27100 SW Salmon River Hwy, Grand Ronde, OR 97347

ROOMS
1. Jordan Ray & Aaron Eisen2. Joey Seuferling & Veronika Lobova3. Leota Wolford 4. Jacob Schoen & Ashley Keates5. Sami Friedrich6. Denesa Lockwood7. Bill Griesar8. Jeff Leake9. Anthony “Fish” Martinez (28 Tha Native)
Thursday, October 11
OUTREACH: Noggin @ Willamina K-12
Willamina Middle & High School (7:45am – noon)

CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS
1. Jordan Ray, PSU
2. Denessa Oberbeck, OHSU, Noggin Brain Board
3. Joey Seuferling, Noggin Resource Council
4. Sami Friedrich, OHSU
5. Sulema Rodriguez, PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO
6. Ana Mello (Siletz)
7. Sara Moreno, PSU (Siletz, Amity)
8. Jacob Schoen, OHSU National Primate Research Center
9. Ashley Keates, PSU
10. Bill Griesar, NW Noggin/PSU/OHSU
11. Jeff Leake, NW Noggin/PSU
12. Aaron Eisen, PSU
13. Veronika Lobova, WSUV (Willamina)
14. Catherine Caine, Waikiki Elementary School
15. Anthony “Fish” Martinez (28 Tha Native)
16. Theresa Smith, Siletz Valley Early College Academy
Synapses & Stories:
More on our Noggin project
Many K-12 students struggle with academic achievement, and become disenchanted with school. The dropout rate for Native Americans is particularly high.
LEARN MORE: American Indian/Alaska Native Students in Oregon: A Review of Key Indicators
LEARN MORE: Oregon’s Native American students face obstacles to stay in, complete school
There is tremendous regional and national need to develop academic programs and approaches that successfully engage “academic priority” students, and offer access to the social and economic benefits of further education. Our efforts to bring together “near peers,” including undergraduates in science and art, to collaborate with graduate students on creating novel, innovative, multidisciplinary methods of explaining complex ideas in neuroscience, exposes these students to scientists and artists at various stages of their careers…

Our volunteers come from multiple Portland area institutions. Several, including Portland State University and Oregon Health & Science University, actively support innovative community engagement and outreach…

LEARN MORE: NW Noggin collaborators
In October (8 – 11), Noggin participants will bring real brains, both animal and human, into the classroom, and ask students what they already know. We’ll hear from them as experts on tribal stories, and consider how various skills and characteristics of important figures in Grande Ronde and Siletz tales relate to specific networks of neurons. We’ll enjoy multiple art projects, including neuron building and brain maps, to allow students to explore these ideas further…
LEARN MORE: Synapses, Stories & Song!
LEARN MORE: Grande Ronde Lesson Plan on Stories & Myths

We have done this before, successfully – see Noggin Bloggin for details. Students will learn structure/function relationships, discover educational and career options in neuroscience and art, and get engaged in big questions about how our brains work and make us who we are.

Thank you Spirit Mountain Community Fund for supporting this work!
Noggin @ Siletz Valley!

Tres Escuelas en un Día!

Brains are xumxum @ Willamina

Noggin + Storytelling + Song @ Siletz Valley

And we’ve been acquiring materials and skills for compelling outreach this fall…
Adventure A-Head

Siletz Stories, Singing, Dancing & Brains!

"The Effect of Small Things" @ Gallery 114
2018-10-04 18:00 - 21:00 | Gallery 114, 1100 NW Glisan St, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
WHAT: “The Effect of Small Things” @ Gallery 114, Jeff Leake & Kanani Miyamoto
Come see the show! Exhibit open through OCTOBER 27!!

WHERE: Gallery 114, 1100 NW Glisan St, Portland, OR 97209
WHEN” Opening Thursday, October 4, 2018, 6:00pm – 9:00pm

“Ichigan Yokai” (“Lump” + “Demon”), by Kanani Miyamoto

Jeff Leake’s surrealistic landscape paintings and Kanani Miyamoto’s large scale wood block prints explore ways in which we express cultural ideals and our relationship to the environment.

“Fox Hunt,” by Jeff Leake

NW Noggin @ Ondine Hall
2018-10-02 17:30 - 19:00 | Ondine Residence Hall, PSU, 1912 SW 6th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97201, United States
WHAT: NW Noggin @ Ondine Residence Hall
We did it! Over 80 residents of PSU’s residential Ondine Hall held brains, asked questions, and had a good time… 🙂

WHERE: First Floor, Ondine Residence Hall, Portland State University, 1912 SW 6th Avenue, Portland, OR 97201
WHEN: Tuesday, October 2, 5:30 – 7:00pm

Come join us for a NW Noggin/PSU Housing and Residence Life presentation on brains! Hold a brain, ask questions, and learn more about the importance of healthy eating, sleeping, exercise and social engagement for wellness and mental health…
Volunteers please RSVP to bgriesar@nwnoggin.org and jleake@nwnoggin.org!
COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
McKenzie Figuracion, PSU/BUILD EXITO
Aaron Eisen, PSU/Neuroscience Club
Tyler Clegg, PSU
McKell Ann Barrett, PSU
Meredith Krages, PSU

PSU Neuro Club FREE MOVIE!
2018-09-27 18:30 - 21:30 | Smith Center, Portland State University, 1825 SW Broadway, Portland, OR, 97201, United States
WHAT: PSU Neuroscience Club presents “My Beautiful Broken Brain”
WHERE: Smith Center Memorial Union, Room 333, Portland State University
WHEN: Thursday, September 27, 6:30pm – 9:30pm

Come join the Neuroscience Club at PSU for “My Beautiful Broken Brain,” a powerful film about a young woman re-discovering life after experiencing a hemorrhagic stroke…
LEARN MORE: Hemorrhagic stroke
LEARN MORE: Living brain, successful surgery

OPAHEC/Noggin @ OHSU YES! Tour
2018-09-27 10:30 - 13:00 | OHSU, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland, OR, 97239-3098, United States
WHAT: OHSU Imaging Tour from Youth Engaged in Science (YES!) for K-12 students from Siletz, Amity and Willamina schools
We did it! Many thanks to Binyam Nardos in Damien Fair’s lab, and Alex Stevens at the High-Field MRI Laboratory at OHSU for a #magnetic tour!

WHERE: OHSU, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Rd, Portland, OR 97239; Meet at Mackenzie Hall Room 2198
WHEN: Thursday, September 27, 10:30am – 1:00pm

As part of our ongoing NW Noggin/Oregon Pacific Area Health Education Center (OPAHEC) “Synapses, Stories & Song” Spirit Mountain Community Fund supported outreach effort, we’ll bring ~30 K-12 students from Siletz Valley, Amity and Willamina schools to OHSU for a YES! Program tour of MRI imaging facilities, and an opportunity to discuss research and clinical careers with OHSU graduate and postdoctoral students, faculty and staff!

LEARN MORE: Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
LEARN MORE: Overview of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
OPAHEC is recruiting student participants from their Health Professions clubs and providing significant transportation (the drive from Siletz is nearly three hours!). This will help connect some of the K-12 students with OHSU and PSU outreach participants before we spend time in Lincoln and Yamhill county schools with more brains, stories and art…
LEARN MORE: Synapses, Stories & Song!
LEARN MORE: Synapses & Stories: Coyote, Grizzly & their Brains!
Many thanks to Binyam Nardos and Damien Fair’s Lab at OHSU for organizing this tour!
COMMITTED VOLUNTEERS
Melanie Alvarado, OPAHEC
Joanne Trzcinski, OPAHEC
Bill Griesar, PSU/OHSU/NW Noggin
Jeff Leake, PSU/NW Noggin
Joey Seuferling, NW Noggin

Noggin @ PSU Viking Days!
2018-09-23 16:00 - 18:00 | Smith Center, Portland State University, 1825 SW Broadway, Portland, OR, 97201, United States
WHAT: NEUROSANITY! Viking Days @ Portland State!

WHERE: Smith Memorial Student Union, Room 333, Portland State University, 1825 SW Broadway, Portland, OR 97201
WHEN: Sunday, September 23, 2018, 4:00 – 6:00pm

Welcome back to campus! Bring your brains to view more brains in Smith!
Event organized by the Neuroscience Club at Portland State University…

SLIDES (ppt): Anxiety Neuroscience Club Viking Days 2018
SLIDES (pdf): Anxiety Neuroscience Club Viking Days 2018

List of references
Sienna Art Studios
Neural circuits in anxiety and stress disorders: a focused review
Circuits regulating pleasure and happiness: the evolution of reward-seeking and misery-fleeing behavioral mechanisms in vertebrates
Typical and atypical development of functional human brain networks: insights from rsfMRI
What is the meaning of The Scream?
Child Poverty in the United States: A Tale of Devastation and the Promise of Hope
Physiological correlates of emotional reactivity and regulation in early adolescents
Bathing your brain @ Velo

Noggin @ MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility
2018-09-19 13:00 - 18:00 | MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility, 2630 N Pacific Hwy, Woodburn, 97071, United States
WHAT: Noggin visit to MacClaren Youth Correctional Facility
We did it!
Some incredible young people, with challenging questions, motivated and fascinated by neuroscience research…
Learn more here…
Corrections, Bias & Brains

WHERE: MacClaren Youth Correctional Facility, 2630 N Pacific Hwy, Woodburn, OR 97071
WHEN: Wednesday, September 19, 1:00 – 6:00pm
*********Please arrive around 12:15am
CONTACT: Kathleen Fullerton, Project Coordinator, Hope Partnership, Janus Youth Programs
MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility is administered by the Oregon Youth Authority in Woodburn, Oregon. The agency’s stated mission is “to protect the public and reduce crime by holding youth accountable and providing opportunities for reformation in safe environments.”

Janus is the Roman god of new beginnings, doorways, gates, transitions. He famously has two faces, one looking towards the past, and one oriented to the future…

Roman coin showing the two-headed Janus (Wikimedia Commons)
LEARN MORE: Who was Janus, the Roman god of beginnings and endings?
LEARN MORE: Janus (Ancient History Encyclopedia)
LEARN MORE: Janus, Roman god of doorways
We are returning to MacLaren, along with Kathleen Fullerton from Janus Youth Programs, to discuss neuroscience, answer questions, and consider research on bias in judicial and law enforcement systems, pathways in psychology for counseling and research, and what role neuroscientists play, or might play, in judicial and legislative reform.
Learn more about our recent visit to MacLaren at the LINK…
Correctional Connections

COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
1. Jordan Ray, Portland State University
2. Eileen Torres, Oregon Health & Science University
3. Binyam Nardos, Oregon Health & Science University
4. Jessica Patching-Bunch, NW Noggin Resource Council
5. Brittany Alperin, Oregon Health & Science University
6. Jade Osilla, Portland State University
7. Tyler Braly, Portland State University
8. Kayla Townsley, Oregon Health & Science University
9. Emma Schifsky, Oregon Health & Science University
10. Elsa Gomez, WSU Vancouver
11. Taylor Stewart, University of Portland
12. Ruth Marigomen, WSU Vancouver
13. Bill Griesar, NW Noggin/PSU/OHSU
14. Jeff Leake, NW Noggin/PSU

Fort Vancouver Outreach Planning!
2018-09-18 17:30 - 18:30 | Chapel Pub
WHAT: Outreach planning with biology teachers from Fort Vancouver High School
WHERE: Chapel Pub, 430 N Killingsworth St, Portland, OR 97217
WHEN: Tuesday, September 18, 2018, 5:30 – 6:30pm

We’ll meet with Biology teachers from Fort Vancouver High School (including Coreyanne Russell, Anna Ricks, James Cederstrom and Jason Galvas) to discuss a series of visits to classrooms during the academic year…
See what we’ve done previously at Fort!
Trap Squad!

Brains, biofeedback & SLEEP

Ventricles in Vancouver!

Participants
Coreyanne Russell, Fort Vancouver High School
Anna Ricks, Fort Vancouver High School
James Cederstrom, Fort Vancouver High School
Jason Galvas, Fort Vancouver High School
Bill Griesar, NW Noggin/PSU/OHSU
Jeff Leake, NW Noggin/PSU
Denesa Lockwood, NW Noggin Board member/OHSU
Ruth Marigomen, NW Noggin Resource Council/WSUV

NOGGIN Volunteers at OMSI!!!
2018-09-15 09:00 - 2018-09-16 17:00
The Portland Mini Maker Faire @ OMSI
“a family-friendly showcase of invention, creativity, and resourcefulness.”
When: Saturday, September 15 and Sunday, September 16 from 9am – 5:30pm
Where: Oregon Museum of Science and Industry – 1945 SE Water Ave, Portland, OR 97214
Volunteers:

Danesa Lockwood
Jennifer Teachworth
Brittany Alperin
Jeehoon Jung
Natalia Stoner

Noggin @ Amity High
2018-09-06 12:00 - 13:00 | Amity High School, 503 Oak Ave, Amity, OR, 97101, United States
WHAT: Noggin visit to Amity High School
WHERE: Amity High School, 503 Oak Ave, Amity, OR 97101
WHEN: Thursday, September 6, noon – 1pm

Along with Joanne Trzcinski and Melanie Alvarado from the Oregon Pacific Area Health Education Center, we’ll meet with principal Chris Daniels to finalize plans for Synapses, Stories & Song on Wednesday, October 10!

We did it!

On Wednesday, October 10, we’ll meet with two classes of freshman in the morning (all ~60 students in Amity’s freshman class) in two 50-minute sessions, and then with two classes of sophomores (all ~70 sophomores) in the afternoon. More details coming soon – updates at the link below…

LEARN MORE: Synapses, Stories & Song!

Noggin/PSU Neuro Club @ OMSI!
2018-09-01 11:00 - 15:00 | Oregon Museum of Science & Industry, 1945 SE Water Ave, Portland, OR, 97214, United States
WHAT: PSU Neuro Club/Noggin “Brains & Art” outreach at OMSI!
We did it!

NEW POST..!
PSU, Noggin, OMSI & Brains!

WHERE: Oregon Museum of Science & Industry, 1945 SE Water Ave, Portland, OR 97214
WHEN: Saturday, September 1, 11:00am – 3:00pm

A brainy art and science day at the museum! Meet members of Portland State’s popular neuroscience club, hold real human brains, make art, and learn cool brain facts. ASK ANY QUESTION about sleep, drugs, perception, cognition, anxiety, ADHD, adolescent brain development, spina bifida, mindfulness/meditation – and any other topic that comes to mind!
LEARN MORE: PSU Neuroscience Club
Noggin Brain Board member Denesa Lockwood will be dropping by with our new coyote skull!

Come join us! Please RSVP to griesar@pdx.edu and jleake@pdx.edu
COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
Aaron Eisen, PSU
Jesse Benefiel, PSU
Louis Sumrall, PSU
Sai Kiersarsky, PSU
Leota Wolford, PSU
Hannah Olivia, PSU
Julia Schmidt, PSU
Thomas Madison, PSU
Jeehoon Jung, WSUV
Michael Deveney, PSU
Shawna Erickson, PSU
Roberto Garduno, PSU
Alice Rear, OHSU

Return to BioGift!
2018-08-28 13:00 - 16:00 | BioGift, 17819 NE Riverside Pkwy, Portland, OR, 97230, United States
WHAT: Visit to BioGift for head dissection/discussion
We did it! We cleaned off specimens for better classroom display…

WHERE: BioGift, 17819 NE Riverside Pkwy, Portland, OR 97230
WHEN: Tuesday, August 28, 2018, 1:00pm – 4:00pm

BioGift is offering further assistance with the preparation of animal head specimens for our Synapses & Stories project..! We’ll be visiting schools in Lincoln and Yamhill Counties to discuss characters from Native tales and comparative neuroanatomy this fall…
LEARN MORE: Synapses & Stories: Coyote, Grizzly & their Brains!
Adventure A-Head

All the animals heads, including cougar, badger, fox and squirrel, were generously donated by Wayne’s Taxidermy in Yoncolla, Oregon…

LEARN MORE: Wayne Sherrard of Wayne’s Taxidermy
See what we did previously with BioGift!
BioGifting brains

A BioGift of Brains

COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
Denesa Lockwood, NW Noggin Board/Oregon Health & Science University
Andrea Anaya, Portland State University
Kanani Miyamoto, NW Noggin Resource Council
Joey Seuferling, Noggin Resource Council
Aaron Eisen, PSU Neuroscience Club
Heather Hamilton, PSU/OHSU/NIH BUILD EXITO

Noggin @ Willamina
2018-08-27 12:00 - 13:00 | Willamina High School, 1100 N.E. Oaken Hills Dr., Willamina, OR, 97396, United States
WHAT: Noggin visit to Willamina High School
We did it! We’re getting organized to bring brains, storytellers, music and art on Thursday, October 11…

WHERE: Willamina High School, 1100 N.E. Oaken Hills Dr., Willamina, OR 97396
WHEN: Monday, August 27, noon
Along with Joanne Trzcinski and Melanie Alvarado from OPAHEC, and Theresa Smith from Siletz Valley Early College Academy, we’ll meet with teacher Michelle Anderson and principal Tim France to discuss plans for Synapses, Stories & Song this fall.

Beautiful drive through Yamhill County…
LEARN MORE: Synapses & Stories: Coyote, Grizzly & their Brains!
LEARN MORE: Synapses, Stories & Song!
See what we did last time at Willamina at the link!
Brains are xumxum @ Willamina

Teachers, Noggin, OPAHEC & Intel!
2018-08-15 12:00 - 13:00 | Intel Jones Farm 3, Jones Farm 3 (JF3), 2111 NE 25th Ave, Hillsboro, OR, 97124, United States
WHAT: Meeting with Intel Native American Network (iNAN)
We did it!

Terrific discussion on how we’ll collaborate in outreach this fall. New 3D printed brain sets for schools, bound books of stories, research, art projects, songs, and “Noggin classroom brain kits,” complete with pipe cleaners, recycled plastic brains, electrophysiology recording devices and laminated art project instructions…

WHERE: Intel, Jones Farm 3 (JF3), 2111 NE 25th Ave, Hillsboro, OR 97124
WHEN: Wednesday, August 15, noon – 1pm

At the invitation of Shashi Jain, a Portland-based entrepreneur, technologist, instructor and IoT Innovation Manager at Intel…Jacob Schoen, Jeff Leake and Bill Griesar of NW Noggin are joining Joanne Trzcinski and Melanie Alvarado from the Oregon Pacific Area Health Education Center (OPAHEC), Theresa Smith, a Siletz tribal member and second grade teacher at Siletz Valley Early College Academy, and Michelle Chuaprasert, Raea Garcia, Amanda Sharp, Cory Cornelius and David Shaw from the Intel Native American Network…

(We may also bring along a few extra brains… 🙂 )
We’ll discuss outreach plans this fall in Lincoln and Yamhill County tribal majority public schools. Intel employees are interested in offering support through 3D printing human and animal brains (and perhaps other significant objects), other forms of printing (e.g., book or booklet binding), and potential opportunities for direct volunteer school and classroom engagement.
Learn more about these plans at the links below…
Synapses, Stories & Song!

WHAT: Spirit Mountain Community Fund supported outreach to tribal schools
WHERE: Amity, Sheridan, Willamina and Siletz Valley schools
WHEN: October 8 – 11, 2018

Synapses & Stories: Coyote, Grizzly & their Brains!

Noggin @ MacClaren Youth Correctional Facility
2018-08-03 17:00 - 18:30 | MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility, 2630 N Pacific Hwy, Woodburn, 97071, United States
WHAT: Noggin visit to MacClaren Youth Correctional Facility
LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS VISIT AT THE LINK…
Correctional Connections

WHERE: MacClaren Youth Correctional Facility, 2630 N Pacific Hwy, Woodburn, OR 97071
WHEN: Friday, August 3, 5:00 – 6:30pm
CONTACT: Kathleen Fullerton, Project Coordinator, Hope Partnership, Janus Youth Programs

MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility is administered by the Oregon Youth Authority in Woodburn, Oregon. The agency’s stated mission is “to protect the public and reduce crime by holding youth accountable and providing opportunities for reformation in safe environments.”

At MacLaren, there are a number of vocational opportunities offered, including the training of shelter dogs (Project POOCH). The Hope Partnership, a collaboration between the Oregon Youth Authority and Janus Youth Services, also provides a variety of classes and community networking opportunities for youth to help build their self-confidence and skill set to transform their lives.

LEARN MORE: Hope Partnership Celebrates its Fifth Year Anniversary
LEARN MORE: HOPE Partnership – Janus Youth Programs
LEARN MORE: Janus Youth Programs – Residential & Re-Entry Services
Thank you for inviting us to spend an afternoon! We enjoyed a spirited discussion with youth leaders around bias, brain development, drugs, educational opportunities, and the implications of neuroscience research for policy and law.

We’ll return to MacLaren in September – dates to be scheduled soon…
COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
Jordan Ray, PSU
Jacob Schoen, OHSU

First Thursday: Jeff Leake + p:ear!
2018-08-02 17:00 - 20:00 | P:ear, 338 NW 6th Ave, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
WHAT: Inner Landscapes, work by Portland artist Jeff Leake
WHERE: p:ear, 338 NW 6th Avenue, Portland, or 97209
WHEN: Thursday, August 2, 2018, 5:00 – 8:00pm

The p:ear gallery is thrilled to present Jeff Leake’s Inner Landscapes.
A Bay Area native, Jeff Leake holds a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA from UC Davis. Fascinated with the origin and nature of our inner landscapes, he works alongside neuroscience faculty at Portland State University to teach art and neuroscience there and around the Portland area.

Also the co-founder and art coordinator of NW Noggin, an art and neuroscience outreach group, Jeff has travelled around the country to give lectures on neuroscience and art, and has lectured on art and drugs for Science On Tap, the Portland Art Museum, and the Washington State Psychological Association.
Along the way, Jeff has shown his artwork nationally and internationally. He currently lives and works in sunny Portland, Oregon with his wife, kids, and three dogs.
In addition to showing his work in the p:ear gallery, Jeff will be facilitating art workshops for p:ear youth, and youth artwork will be shown alongside Jeff’s at the the Inner Landscapes shows.

LEARN MORE: NW Noggin @ p:ear
