NW NOGGIN: Neuroscience outreach group (growing in networks)

OHSU Lecture: Suzana Herculano-Houzel
2018-05-07 17:30 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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

STEM Week Oregon
2018-05-05 - 2018-05-13 | CA
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

SfN ABSTRACTS DUE!
2018-05-03 | CA
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

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…

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

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 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

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

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)

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

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

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

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…

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 🙂

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 @ 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

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

Velo planning: Parkinson's & Dance!
2018-03-19 17:00 - 18:00 | 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..!

Dead Week Daze @ PSU!
2018-03-15 12:00 - 16:00 | Smith Center, Portland State University, 1825 SW Broadway, Portland, OR, 97201, United States
SMITH MEMORIAL UNION @ PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY ROOM 026

Noggin @ Skyridge
2018-03-13 07:45 - 12:35 | Skyridge Middle School, 5220 NW Parker Street, Camas, WA, 98607, United States
WHAT: Noggin @ Skyridge Middle School
We did it! More at the link!
Curiosity’s Sky-High at Skyridge!

WHERE: Skyridge Middle School, 5220 NW Parker St, Camas, WA 98607
WHEN: Tuesday, March 13, 7:45am – 12:35pm
Noggin volunteers will meet with students at Skyridge, introducing them to neuroscience research and art projects related to understanding the brain…
8:00-9:04 Class (Core 1)
9:06-10:03 Class (Core 2)
10:08-10:46 Class (Core 3)
Lunch 10:46 – 11:16
11:18-11:37 Class (Core 3 con’t)
11:38-12:35 Class (Core 4)
See what we’ve done before at the links..!
The Homunculus Dance @ Skyridge

Synaptic Pruning @ Skyridge

COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
Jeehoon Jung, WSUV
Ruth Marigomen, WSUV/Noggin Resource Council
Iris Gutierrez, WSUV
Ashley Keates, PSU
Joey Seuferling, Noggin Resource Council

BRAIN AWARENESS WEEK
2018-03-12 - 2018-03-18 | CA
Read our interview with the Dana Foundation about Brain Awareness Week – and check our Noggin calendar for what we’ve got planned..!
NW Noggin: Interview with the Dana Foundation!

OHSU/OMSI BRAIN FAIR
2018-03-10 09:00 - 17:00 | Oregon Museum of Science & Industry, 1945 SE Water Ave, Portland, OR, 97214, United States
WHAT: OHSU/OMSI BRAIN FAIR
We did it! More details and pics at the link..!
Putting the brains in Brain Fair!

WHERE: Oregon Museum of Science & Industry, 1945 SE Water Ave, Portland, OR 97214
WHEN: Saturday, March 10, 2018, 9:00am – 5:00pm (set up 8:30 – 9:30am! Event starts @ 10am)
One of the nation’s largest Brain Fairs is this Saturday, and kicks off Brain Awareness Week..!
LEARN MORE: Brain Awareness Week (BAW) is the global campaign to increase public awareness of the progress and benefits of brain research
Come join us for an awesome day at OMSI!
Coffee and snacks all day, and OHSU promises free admission to the museum!

Please RSVP to Bill Griesar (griesar@pdx.edu) & Jeff Leake (aspragus@yahoo.com)
See what we did last year!
Pipe Cleaners, Gel Prints, Electrodes & Brains!

COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
Deza’Rae Collins, PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO
Sulema Rodriguez, PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO
Heather Hamilton, PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO
Mckenzie Figuracion, PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO
Jordan Ray, PSU
Jennifer Teachworth, PSU
Michael Deveney, PSU
Jeehoon Jung, WSUV
Krystal Harrel, PSU
Kyle Stinson, PSU
Mikey Smith, PSU
Adam Bishop, PSU
Michael James Bettger, PSU
Thomas Madison, PSU
Iris Gutierrez , WSUV
Gavin Lockard, WSUV
Alivia Stone, WSUV
Daniel Salazar, WSUV
Malia’Ka Hall, WSUV
David Beltran, WSUV
Lyubov Bachinskaya, PSU
Bliss Croton, PSU
Joey Seuferling, Noggin Resource Council
Kindra Crick
Sukh Athwal, WSUV, 9:00am – noon
Andre Walcott, OHSU, 9:00am – noon
Shawna Erickson, PDU, 9:00am – noon
Travis Christian, PSU, 9:00am – noon
Vanessa Batulayan, PSU/Pacific Islander Asian Asian American Student Center, 9:00am – noon
Nancy Yang, PSU, 9:00am – noon
Jessica Patching-Bunch, Noggin Resource Council, 9:00am – noon
Ankita Guchait, PSU/OHSU, 3:00 – 5:00pm
Ruth Marigomen, WSUV, 3:00 – 5:00pm

There will be coffee/tea/snacks provided throughout the day in Classroom 1.
You will receive FREE entry into OMSI on March 15, with your OHSU ID. You may tour the museum at any time during the day, just make sure your table is staffed while you are away. We will also have nametags for non-OHSU volunteers so that they may enter for free as well.
The OMSI parking fee is waived for all exhibitors, please remember your parking space number and report it to the concierge desk or to me.
Kate Stout (from the OHSU Brain Institute) will be there with a map of where our Noggin tables are located, and there will also be a label on each table…
There will be a stack of chairs in the venue space for you to use if you need some for your table. Chairs will not be pre-set at your table.
Load in is at 8:30 am-9:30 am on Saturday morning.

Noggin @ HeLa High!
2018-03-08 08:00 - 12:00 | He La High School, 9105 NE 9th St, Vancouver, WA, 98664, United States
WHAT: NW Noggin visit to HeLa High
We did it! Learn more about HeLa cells and visual physiology at the link!
Hallucinations @ HeLa High

WHERE: Henrietta Lacks High School, 9105 NE 9th St., Vancouver, WA, 98664
WHEN: Thursday, March 8, 2018, 8:00am – 12:00pm
Noggin volunteers from Portland State University, OHSU and other area campuses will meet with about 400 students at Henrietta Lacks High School, introducing them to neuroscience research and art projects related to understanding the brain…
See what’ve done at HeLa in the past…
Hella Bright at HeLa

Hippocampal hordes at HeLa High

Brains for 437 @ HeLa High!

Please join us! Email bgriesar@nwnoggin.org, jleake@pdx.edu to RSVP 🙂
CONFIRMED LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
Ashley Keates, PSU
Jade Osilla, PSU
Lelani Lealiiee, PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO
Joey Seuferling, Noggin Resource Council
Kanani Miyamoto, Noggin Resource Council
Natalia Stoner, PSU
Travis Christian, PSU
Aliese Poole, PSU
Iris Gutierrez, WSUV, 8:00am – 10:00am

Noggin @ Beaumont Middle School!
2018-03-07 16:00 - 17:20 | Beaumont Middle School, 4043 NE Fremont St, Portland, OR, 97212, United States
WHAT: NW Noggin visit to Beaumont Middle School
We did it! Learn more about our visit (and the basal ganglia) at the link!
Basal ganglia @ Beaumont!

WHERE: Beaumont Middle School, 4043 NE Fremont St, Portland, OR 97212
WHEN: Wednesday, March 7, 2018, 4:00 – 5:20pm
Contact: Erica Ronquillo, Latino Network

LEARN MORE: Latino Network Learning & Lobes
Noggin volunteers from Portland State University, OHSU and other area campuses will meet with Latino students after school at Beaumont, introducing them to neuroscience research and art projects related to understanding the brain.

Please RSVP to Bill (griesar@pdx.edu), Jeff (jleake@pdx.edu) and Jessica (jpatchingbunch@gmail.com) to join in!
COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
Sulema Rodriguez, PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO/Noggin Resource Council
Aliese Poole, PSU
Jessica Patching-Bunch, PSU/Noggin Resource Council
Travis Christian, PSU
Joey Seuferling, Noggin Resource Council member

Noggin @ Cesar Chavez Middle School!
2018-03-06 15:15 - 16:45 | Cesar Chavez Middle School, 5103 N. Willis Blvd., Portland, OR, United States
WHAT: NW Noggin visit to Cesar Chavez Middle School
We did it! Learn more at this link…
Tres Escuelas en un Día!

WHERE: Cesar Chavez Middle School, 5103 N. Willis Blvd., Portland OR 97203

WHEN: Tuesday, March 6, 2018, 3:15 – 4:45pm
Contact: Erica Ronquillo, Latino Network

LEARN MORE: Latino Network Learning & Lobes
Noggin volunteers from Portland State University, OHSU and other area campuses will meet with Latino students after school at Cesar Chavez, introducing them to neuroscience research and art projects related to understanding the brain…

Please RSVP to Bill (griesar@pdx.edu), Jeff (jleake@pdx.edu) and Jessica (jpatchingbunch@gmail.com) to join in!
COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
Sulema Rodriguez, PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO/Noggin Resource Council
Jordan Ray, PSU
Travis Christian, PSU
Iris Gutierrez, WSUV

Noggin @ Sheridan High School
2018-03-06 11:00 - 12:30 | CA
WHAT: Noggin visit to Sheridan High School
We did it! Learn more at this link…
Tres Escuelas en un Día!

WHERE: Sheridan High School, 433 S Bridge St, Sheridan, OR 97378

WHEN: Tuesday, March 6, 11:00am – 11:20am, Meeting with Dean Rech; 11:20am – 12:50pm, Health Professions classroom students
SAMSUNG CAMERA PICTURES
We are heading into gorgeous Yamhill County near McMinnville 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. We’ll also meet with Sheridan Principal Dean Rech 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!

Noggin @ Amity High School
2018-03-06 08:00 - 10:00 | Amity High School, 503 Oak Ave, Amity, OR, 97101, United States
WHAT: Noggin visit to Amity High School
We did it! Learn more at this link…
Tres Escuelas en un Día!

WHERE: Amity High School, 503 Oak Ave, Amity, OR 97101

WHEN: Tuesday, March 6, 8:15 – 8:50am, meeting with principal Chris Daniels; 8:50am – 9:45am, Health Professions classroom students

We are heading into gorgeous Yamhill County near McMinnville 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. We’ll also meet with Amity Principal Chris Daniels 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!

VELO CULT: Sleep, School & Surrealism
2018-03-01 18:00 - 20:00 | Velo Cult Bike Shop, 1969 NE 42nd, Portland, OR
WHAT: Sleep, School & Surrealism @ Velo Cult with Emily Weiss, Psychology, Portland State University and Jamaali Roberts, PNCA
WHERE: Velo Cult, 1969 NE 42nd Ave, Portland, OR 97213

WHEN: Thursday, March 1, 6 – 8pm
They did it! Learn more at this link…
Black Art, School & Dreams: Exquisite corpses @ Velo

How critical is sleep for young brains? Little kids transitioning to school need to manage their thoughts, feelings, and actions, and theory suggests that sufficient sleep is essential. How does a lack of sleep affect kindergarteners and young children, and impact their development of self-regulation skills? How do racial/ethnic and socioeconomic inequities relate to how well, and how long kids sleep?
Emily focuses on applied research, taking science out of the lab into real classrooms and home environments that children navigate every day. Learn about current research on sleep, self-regulation, and classroom contexts among low-income, African-American kindergarteners.

Detail of “Created on their likeness,” mixed media on canvas by Jamaali Roberts
Jamaali is a multi-faceted painter using different mediums to rethink how Black culture is represented in American society. Jamaali will lead an art and storytelling time. After a brief introduction to African American collage artists, he will guide the audience to create two craft projects around the idea of “sleep” and “rest.” While they create, he will use his African drums and percussion to tell stories from his own surreal dream adventures and enlightening sleep meditations. Participants will leave with a better understanding of what sleep can mean for them and how, conjoined with art, it can benefits our lives.

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…

George Carlin on the compelling nature of sleep…
“People say, ‘I’m going to sleep now,’ as if it were nothing. But it’s really a bizarre activity. ‘For the next several hours, while the sun is gone, I’m going to become unconscious, temporarily losing command over everything I know and understand. When the sun returns, I will resume my life.’
If you didn’t know what sleep was, and you had only seen it in a science fiction movie, you would think it was weird and tell all your friends about the movie you’d seen.
They had these people, you know? And they would walk around all day and be OK? And then, once a day, usually after dark, they would lie down on these special platforms and become unconscious. They would stop functioning almost completely, except deep in their minds they would have adventures and experiences that were completely impossible in real life. As they lay there, completely vulnerable to their enemies, their only movements were to occasionally shift from one position to another; or, if one of the ‘mind adventures’ got too real, they would sit up and scream and be glad they weren’t unconscious anymore. Then they would drink a lot of coffee.’
So, next time you see someone sleeping, make believe you’re in a science fiction movie. And whisper, ‘The creature is regenerating itself.”

RACC Juice Awards: NW Noggin!
2018-03-01 07:30 - 09:00 | Portland Art Museum
WHAT: Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC) Juice Awards!
Amazing morning! Learn more about RACC, and the Top Ten Ways you can make a difference for arts and culture at this link..!
Ten Ways to Support the Arts

WHERE: Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR 97205
WHEN: Thursday, March 1, 2018, 7:30 – 9:00am

NW Noggin has been selected to receive an award at RACC’s Juice breakfast ceremony on Thursday, March 1, 2018.

LEARN MORE: Noggin has the Juice!

Noggin was nominated for “providing arts integrated neuroscience education to the public.” Our nomination was submitted by our friends and collaborators at Portland State University and Oregon Health & Science University.

Thank you for supporting innovative arts-integrated STEAM outreach in the Pacific Northwest, and beyond!

FROM RACC…

“Noggin will be honored alongside the following for their significant impact to our region’s arts and culture: Kevin Cavanaugh, Guerrilla Development Co., New Expressive Works and Wyse Real Estate Advisors, Paul Susi, Profile Theatre, Red Door Project and Portland Police, Tyler White, I Love This Place PDX, Valerie Otani, City of Hillsboro, YWCA, Imago Theatre and Fred Meyer…”

What is Juice?
Juice is the annual breakfast event put on by the Regional Arts & Culture Council where members of the business and arts community come together to celebrate outstanding achievement in expression, support and service in arts and culture in the tri-county area. Juice was born out of the event known as Arts Breakfast of Champions that was produced by the now defunct Business for Culture and Arts. Think of Juice as RACC’s love letter to the arts by celebrating art’s power through video stories, performance and awards. This is our opportunity to help business and the broader community truly understand the critical need for art and all the ways our community can support the people producing it. We hope to inspire increased value and investment in the arts through story and connection. More than 400 people attend Juice. They represent the business, artist, nonprofit and government sectors.

NW Noggin @ American Medical Women's Association mtg
2018-02-28 18:00 - 20:00 | Franklin High School, 5405 SE Woodward St, Portland, OR, 97206, United States
WHAT: American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA) meeting
WHERE: Franklin High School, 5405 SE Woodward St, Portland, OR 97206; Room G018 (the building right next to the football field, not the main school building!)
WHEN: Wednesday, February 28, 2018, 6:00 – 8:00pm

We did this! The AMWA members serve as high school mentors, and wanted to learn more about our arts-integrated community outreach. Our volunteers talked about career opportunities, their own work in labs, as counselors, as undergraduates…

We brought along brains and made more neurons out of pipe cleaners… 🙂

LEARN MORE: American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA) PSU Chapter

Committed participants
Krystal Harrel, PSU
Lyubov Bachinskaya, PSU
Jeehoon Jung, WSUV
Ashley Keates, PSU
Mara Baker, PSU
Denessa Oberbeck, OHSU
