PSU Neuro Club White (Matter) Elephant Exchange!
2019-12-05 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Smith Center, Portland State University, 1825 SW Broadway, Portland, OR, 97201, United States
WHAT: PSU Neuroscience Club White (Matter!) Elephant Gift Exchange
WHERE: Smith Memorial Student Union Room 294, Portland State University, 1825 SW Broadway, Portland, OR 97201
WHEN: Thursday, December 5, 6:30pm – 8:00pm

Noggin @ Fort Vancouver
2019-12-13 07:15 - 14:05 | Fort Vancouver High School, 5700 E 18th St, Vancouver, WA, 98661, United States
WHAT: Noggin visit to Fort Vancouver High

We did it!

Check out the post by Madeline Ogle from PSU!
Why do you study the brain?

So many awesome volunteers from Portland State University!!

“Let knowledge serve!”

WHERE: Fort Vancouver High School, 5700 E 18th St, Vancouver, WA 98661
(Please check in at the school office)
WHEN: Friday, December 13, 2018, 7:15am – 2:05pm
Yes, they start that early 😝 And NO, they shouldn’t… 🙄

We’ll be there to consider remarkable questions from young people still subjected to unconscionably early school start times, which are known to harm developing adolescent brains.
LEARN MORE: Sleep habits, academic performance, and the adolescent brain structure
LEARN MORE: School Start Times, Sleep, Behavioral, Health, and Academic Outcomes
LEARN MORE: Noggins in Nod
Valuing teaching, outreach and community engagement: #scitalk but with genuine action, too 🙂
See what we’ve done previously at the sleep-deprived Home of the Trappers…
Trap Squad!

Brains, biofeedback & SLEEP

Ventricles in Vancouver!

This is the last Friday of finals week at Portland State – and just look at the enthusiasm for genuine #scicomm #sciart outreach and engagement!!

Part of the afternoon Noggin crew!
COMMITTED VOLUNTEERS
1. Bill Griesar, NW Noggin, PSU, OHSU
2. Jeff Leake, NW Noggin, PSU
3. Cam Howard, PSU (9:30am – 2:05pm)
4. Aaron Eisen, NUNM (9:30am – 2:05pm)
5. Danny Gray, PSU (9:30am – 2:05pm)
6. Jason Blume, PSU
7. Katherine Werth, PSU
8. Emanuel Heller, PSU
9. Katie Hashimoto, PSU
10. Sydney Duran, PSU
11. Jessica Cary, PSU
12. Julia Schmidt, PSU/PSU Neuro Club President (9:30am – 2:05pm)
13. Greyson Moore, PSU
14. Madeline Ogle, PSU
15. Maria Galvan-Bravo, PSU
16. Lidia Echeverria, PSU
17. Lesley Guerra, PSU
18. Noemi Martinez, PSU
19. Paul Delahanty, PSU (11:00am – 2:05pm)
20. Cameran Nicholas, PSU
21. Denesa Lockwood, OHSU
22. Cassie James, PSU
23. David Marmarinos, PCC
24. Sai Kiersarsky, PSU (9:30am – 2:05pm)
25. Liliana Prychyna, PSU
Read what biology teacher CoreyAnne Russell has to say…
What will your students remember in five years?

Bias & Brain Don't Shoot PDX @ PAM
2020-01-11 11:00 - 13:00 | Portland Art Museum
WHAT: Bias & Brain @ the Portland Art Museum, in conjunction with the Hank Willis Thomas exhibit and Don’t Shoot Portland
We did it!

Such a rewarding, informative and joyous community experience!

WHERE: Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR 97205
WHEN: Saturday, January 11, 11:00am – 1:00pm

“The history of Oregon is partially the history of a state that legislated not wanting black people around.” –W. Kamau Bell
LEARN MORE: The Racist History of Portland, the Whitest City in America
Discover brains, art projects and neuroscience research related to perception, bias, action and music. Ask questions, make art, hear extraordinary songs – and explore issues surrounding gun violence, corporate branding and discrimination.

LEARN MORE: Race, Bias & Brain: You Can’t Control Art

MUSIC IS POWERFUL MEDICINE

PRINT: The Brain on Music (1) by Kanani Miyamoto

“Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.” –Erykah Badu
LEARN MORE: The Effect of Music on the Human Stress Response
LEARN MORE: “Where’s the Music?” Using Music Therapy for Pain Management
LEARN MORE: Music-Induced Analgesia in Chronic Pain Conditions: A Systematic Review
LEARN MORE: Reviewing the Effectiveness of Music Interventions in Treating Depression
LEARN MORE: Musical practice as an enhancer of cognitive function in healthy aging – A systematic review and meta-analysis
LEARN MORE: Musical training as an alternative and effective method for neuro-education and neuro-rehabilitation
LEARN MORE: Music facilitate the neurogenesis, regeneration and repair of neurons
LEARN MORE: Music Making as a Tool for Promoting Brain Plasticity across the Life Span

PRINT: The Brain on Music (2) by Kanani Miyamoto

“Music makes us want to live. You don’t know how many times people have told me that they’d been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That’s the power music has.” –Mary J. Blige

PRINT: And Then There Were the Songs, by Kanani Miyamoto
We are THRILLED to hear from LaRhonda Steele and Karen Trusty from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) who will present civil rights freedoms songs and spoken word to add to the historical expressive experience of those who are fighting white supremacy and gun violence in America.

LEARN MORE: LaRhonda Steele, Portland’s first lady of the blues
LISTEN: Spirit of Freedom

14,719 (2018), by Hank Willis Thomas; “Each star represents a person shot and killed by someone else in the United States in 2018.”
LEARN MORE: In Portland, Falling Stars Shine a Light on Gun Violence
COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
1. Kanani Miyamoto, NW Noggin
2. Jeff Leake, NW Noggin/PSU
3. Bill Griesar, NW Noggin/PSU/OHSU
4. Angela Hendrix, NW Noggin
5. Nuno Busch, PSU
6. Arielle Isakharov, OHSU
7. Evan Segura, Portland Psychedelic Society
8. Sai Kiersarsky, PSU
9. Mikah Brandes, PSU
10. Aaron, Eisen, NUNM
11. Madi-Cho Richmond, PSU
12. Danny Leister-Gray, PSU
13. Jade Osilla, Lines for Life
14. Madeline Ogle, PSU
15. Greyson Moore, PSU
16. Moxxy Rogers, PSU
17. Alisha Steigerwald, PSU
18. Sydney Duran, PSU

LEARN MORE ABOUT BIAS & BRAIN AT THE LINKS BELOW
Race, Bias & Brain: You Can’t Control Art
https://nwnoggin.org/2018/01/28/art-race-bias-brain/

Corrections, Bias & Brains
https://nwnoggin.org/2018/09/30/corrections-bias-brains/

Listening to testimony @ p:ear
https://nwnoggin.org/2019/03/27/listening-to-testimony-pear/

NWNoggin fundraiser, Valley Girl @Clinton Street Theater!
2020-01-12 19:00 - 21:00 | Clinton Street Theater, 2522 SE Clinton Street, Portland, OR, 97202, United States
Join us This Sunday from 7-9 pm at Clinton Street Theater at 9pm for a viewing of the 80’s classic, “Valley Girl” staring Nicholas Cage and Deborah Foreman and help support NWNoggin.
The movie is free but there will be a tip jar the proceeds will go to support NWNoggin.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1294694287405242/?notif_t=plan_user_invited&notif_id=1578451796978509
https://hollywoodtheatre.org/events/valley-girl/?fbclid=IwAR3fBiBaPsj3xfbGQ7xf2Ouxaf90ANHAiS6bTqcA1zDUz8G_aZqRQTcgFiA

Noggins on the North Coast!!
2020-01-15 - 2020-01-17 | Astoria High School, 1001 W Marine Dr #5829, Astoria, OR, 97103, United States
WHAT: Synaptic Community Connection in Warrenton & Astoria, OR
We did it!

NEW POST AT THE LINK
North Coast Noggins: Art, Alevins & Brains!

WHERE: Noggin visit to Warrenton High School & Astoria High School
WHEN: Wednesday – Friday, January 15 – 17
Contact: Meredith Payton, MSW, Talent Search Advisor, Clatsop Community College

Noggin returns for a few days of brains, art and research discussion at the mouth of the Columbia River!
Thursday, January 16th:
Warrenton High School, 1700 S Main Ave, Warrenton, OR 97146
8:00am – 3:00pm: We’ll set in the library and will see a mix of 9-12 grade science classes.
We did it!

Lunch on Thursday, January 16th is provided by Street 14 Cafe.
Contact: Matt Bisek

Friday, January 17th:
Astoria High School, 1001 W Marine Dr #5829, Astoria, OR 97103
8:50am – 2:15pm: 2nd period through 6th period. We’ll visit Human Performance, Art, one Honors English class, and three Psychology classes in the school library.
We did it!

Lunch on Friday, January 17th is provided by the Fort George Brewery.

See what we’ve done before in the Astoria area (at the links)…
Accumbens in Astoria

Astoria Noggins: Tipsy Buzzed Mice @ Street 14

Astoria Ales & Ideas: Your Brain in a Vortex @ the Fort George

COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
1. Bill Griesar, NW Noggin/PSU/OHSU
2. Jeff Leake, NW Noggin/PSU
3. Joey Seuferling, NW Noggin
4. Angela Hendrix, NW Noggin
5. Michael Deveney, PSU
6. Aaron Eisen, NW Noggin/NUNM
7. Lidia Echeverria-Garcia, PSU
8. Greyson Moore, PSU
9. Madi-Cho Richmond, PSU

Noggin @ Coffee Creek
2020-01-28 08:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, 24499 SW Grahams Ferry Road, Wilsonville, OR, 97070, United States
WHAT: Noggin visit to Coffee Creek Correctional Facility Portland State University “Metamorphosis” course
We did it!

And we want to do this again!

WHERE: Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, 24499 SW Grahams Ferry Road, Wilsonville, OR 97070
WHEN: Tuesday, January 28, 2020, 8:30 – 11:00am
“unable to touch
sad reflections of my past
but things are made new…”
― Sandi Maddox Hoot
Please meet us in the main building, straight back through parking lot, at 8:30. Please don’t wear blue. No t- shirts with logos (unless NW Noggin!). Comfortable closed toed shoes. No wire bras. Bring only an ID (and the approved supplies). There is a locker you can use for any other personal items.

NW Noggin volunteers will bring extra brains, skulls and art to the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, a multi-custody prison accommodating all women inmates in Oregon. We’ll join Portland State University Studies professor Deb Arthur, who is teaching a year long course called “Metamorphosis” at CCCF.

“Women can earn four credits in science, four credits in arts and letters and three credits in writing — similar to a PSU freshman inquiry course — to set a foundation for a college degree.”

LEARN MORE: Portland State launches pathway toward a college degree for women serving time at Coffee Creek prison

NW Noggin at the MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility, September 2019
Deb has taught a similar course at the MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility, where NW Noggin has met with young incarcerated youth on multiple occasions. We share her enthusiasm for going places, listening, and connecting people through visits, stories, learning, research, education, outreach and art.
From Mackenzie S. Kath, CCCF Executive Support to the Superintendent: “We are really looking forward to this event here at Coffee Creek! I don’t think I will be hungry afterwards, but I am still excited. :)”
COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
1. Bill Griesar, PSU/OHSU/NW Noggin
2 Jeff Leake, PSU/NW Noggin
3. Eileen Torres, OHSU
4. Jade Osilla, Lines for Life
5. Gail Stonebarger, OHSU
6. Aly Berry, PSU Science of Creativity & Learning FRINQ
7. Annika Hokanson, PSU
8. Sorrel Johnson, PSU

THANK YOU FOR SUBMITTING YOUR LEDS FORM 🙂
LEDS Request Noggin at Coffee Creek
Learn more about NW Noggin @ MacLaren at the links below.

LEARN MORE: Myelinating at MacLaren
LEARN MORE: All is in motion, is growing, is you
LEARN MORE: Corrections, Bias & Brains

Sciencepalooza @ Lewis Elementary!
2020-01-31 17:30 - 20:00 | Lewis Elementary School, 4401 SE Evergreen St, Portland, 97206, United States
WHAT: Noggin at Lewis Elementary School SCIENCEPALOOZA STEAM NIGHT!
We did it!

WHERE: Lewis Elementary School, 4401 SE Evergreen St, Portland, OR 97206
WHEN: Friday, January 31, 5:30 – 8:00pm

It’s STEAM NIGHT (our favorite kind of night 🙂) at Portland Public School’s 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. We’ll be at TABLE 5.

See what we did last year at SCIENCEPALOOZA!
Sciencepalooza!

COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS

1. Bill Griesar, NW Noggin/PSU/OHSU
2. Jeff Leake, NW Noggin/PSU
3. Kindra Crick, Kindra Crick Art, NW Noggin Brain Board member
4. Danny Leister-Gray, PSU
5. Noemi Martinez, PSU
6. Jordan Ray, PSU
7. Drew Sinclair, PSU
8. Elizabeth Woodward, PSU
9. Albert Shiue, PSU
10. Bailey Etter, PSU
11. Abigail Gligor, Legacy Research Institute
12. Rebekah Obradovich, PSU
13. Greyson Moore, PSU
14. Nuno Busch, PSU
15, Cora Crick

Noggin @ AMWA!
2020-02-03 18:00 - 19:30 | Urban Center Building, Portland State University, 506 SW Mill Street, Portland, OR, 97201-5412, United States
WHAT: American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA) meeting
We did it!

NEW POST: Axons to AMWA

WHERE: Portland State University, Urban Center Building (URBN) Room 250, 506 SW Mill Street, Portland, Oregon 97201-5412
WHEN: Monday, February 3, 2020, 6:00 – 7:30pm
Contact: Katie Pope, AMWA PSU Mentorship Coordinator

LEARN MORE: American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA) PSU Chapter
The AMWA members serve as high school mentors, and would love to learn more about arts-integrated community outreach. Our volunteers will talk about career opportunities, and their own experiences in labs, as counselors, as undergraduates…

Auras & Axons @ AMWA!

COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
1. Bill Griesar, NW Noggin/PSU/OHSU
2. Jeff Leake, NW Noggin/PSU
3. McKenzie Figuracion, PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO
4. Michael Deveney, PSU
5. Elizabeth Woodward, PSU
6. Abigail Gligor, Legacy Research Institute
7. Chloe Voshell, PSU
8. Aaron Eisen, NUNM/NW Noggin
9. Angela Hendrix, NW Noggin

Astoria Arpilleras @ Street 14!
2020-02-08 17:00 - 19:00 | Street 14 Cafe, 1410 Commercial St, Astoria, OR, 97103, United States
WHAT: Sewing memories – Arpilleras, Sites & Memory @ Street 14 Cafe
We did it!
LEARN MORE AT THE LINK…
Sewing Memories, & Brains

WHERE: Street 14 Cafe, 1410 Commercial St, Astoria, OR 97103
WHEN: Saturday Art Walk, February 8, 2020, 5:00m – 7:00pm
*** NOTE: Arpilleras up at Street 14 until noon, Sunday (2/9)!

“We only have what we give.”
― Isabel Allende
Join artist and educator Cecilia Araneda from Valparaíso, Chile and discover how the art of arpilleras, the sewing of embroidery and patchwork to depict aspects of everyday life, has helped many express personal traumatic experiences and contribute to the memory of significant national violations of human rights.

“If you’re dancing somebody else’s dance, you’re not going to fight them“ – Carol Newman
Cecilia and Noggin will be on Arts – Live & Local! hosted by Cindy Price on public broadcasting station KMUN in Astoria Friday, February 7 at 3:40pm!
She did it!

Valparaíso Bay, September 11, 1973
LISTEN
Interview begins at ~41 minutes…
Friday, Feb 7th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! With Guest Host Cindy Price

Chilean artist and educator Cecilia Araneda, with neuroscience outreach group NW NOGGIN, exhibiting at Street 14 Coffee Shop.
LEARN MORE: What is an Arpillera?
LEARN MORE: Chilean Embroiderers Record Memory Stitch-by-Stitch
LEARN MORE: Chilean Women’s Resistance in the Arpillera Movement
LEARN MORE: The Colorful Quilt Squares Chilean Women Used to Tell the Story of Life Under Pinochet
LEARN MORE: La Alegría de la Ciencia

No estamos en guerra, by Cecilia Araneda (about the situation in Chile today)
FROM CECILIA: “The title of my arpillera is due to a sentence that Piñera said the second or third day of this rebelión. He said ‘We are at war against a bunch of violent people,’ so people said ‘We are not at war, we are united.’”

A few Noggin volunteers will be at Street 14 with real brains and research information on trauma, bias, depression, anxiety, PTSD, sleep deprivation and more.
LEARN MORE: Accumbens in Astoria
LEARN MORE: Noggins on the North Coast

FROM CECILIA: The experience of the Colectivo Memorarte “Arpilleras, sites and memory Valparaíso”, was born in 2016 as a collective initiative to recreate local memory around human rights violations that occurred, massively, during the civic-military dictatorship that started in Chile on September 11th, 1973. We express our work through the realization of the art of the arpilleras where we sew parts of the memory of our country with pieces of colored fabrics and threads.Initially, the Colectivo started to work in the space of the Valparaíso Ex-prison Cultural Park, however, during 2017, we moved our operation –weekly- to the PRAIS (Integral Health Care and Repair Program), Valparaíso. From this place we have been able to strengthen our creative performance by affirming our identity as a cultural group that works to recover the memory of those sites that were used by the civic-military dictatorship to violate human rights.As of 2018, we have projected our development around the realization of visits to memory and human rights sites, meetings and talks about memory and also exhibitions of our works in addition to continuing the creation of arpilleras, now even portraying actual events. With this work, we fulfill the purposes of: sharing what has been done, exchanging experiences of action around “popular memory”, and contributing to the imperative of developing a “pedagogy of memory and human rights” in our country. Our commitment is to go on working against oblivion, impunity and injustice in Chile. Founding members: María Alicia Salinas (our teacher and former political prisoner), Silvia Mazzella (former political prisoner), Alicia Olea (former political prisoner), Dana Wordes, Valeria Arancibia, Gabriela Palleras, Marisa Chávez. In the course of the years some members have joined and others, for reasons of work or place of residence, have not been able to participate. Today, our teacher, originally from Santiago, no longer travels to all sessions for health reasons. The actual nine members are: Silvia Mazzella, Alicia Olea, Dana Wordes, Valeria Arancibia, Gabriela Palleras, Nora Torres, Jacqueline van Rysseghem, Marisa Chávez and me, Cecilia Araneda. We have participated in various human rights events, universities, hospitals, cultural centers, openings of memory sites and cultural exhibitions.
https://nwnoggin.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/disparo-paco.mp4
Video taken by Augustus in Valparaíso, Chile, 2019So, we invite you to explore our recent history through these arpilleras where you could imagine the pain and despair as well as the courage and hope of men and women who believed and fought for a better world.
LEARN MORE: INDICE CATALOGO ACTUALIZADO

Sewing memories - Arpilleras, Sites & Memory @ p:ear
2020-02-11 09:30 - 13:00 | P:ear, 338 NW 6th Ave, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
WHAT: Sewing memories – Arpilleras, Sites & Memory @ p:ear
We did it!
LEARN MORE AT THE LINK…
Sewing Memories, & Brains

WHERE: p:ear, 338 NW 6th Ave., Portland, OR 97209 (NW Noggin is deeply honored to be the p:earblossoms 2020 Community Partner Awardee!)
WHEN: Tuesday, February 11, 2020, 9:30am – 1:00pm

“No happiness or pain, no more forgetting.”
― Gabriela Mistral
Join artist and educator Cecilia Araneda from Valparaíso, Chile and discover how the art of arpilleras, the sewing of embroidery and patchwork to depict aspects of everyday life, has helped many express personal traumatic experiences and contribute to the memory of significant national violations of human rights.

Valparaíso Bay, September 11, 1973
LEARN MORE: What is an Arpillera?
LEARN MORE: Chilean Embroiderers Record Memory Stitch-by-Stitch
LEARN MORE: Chilean Women’s Resistance in the Arpillera Movement
LEARN MORE: The Colorful Quilt Squares Chilean Women Used to Tell the Story of Life Under Pinochet
LEARN MORE: La Alegría de la Ciencia

Noggin volunteers will be at p:ear with more real brains and research information on trauma, bias, depression, anxiety, PTSD, sleep deprivation and more.

Details on “Arpilleras, sites and memory Valparaíso” below…

No estamos en guerra, by Cecilia Araneda (about the situation in Chile today)
FROM CECILIA: “The title of my arpillera is due to a sentence that Piñera said the second or third day of this rebelión. He said ‘We are at war against a bunch of violent people,’ so people said ‘We are not at war, we are united.'”

LEARN MORE: Arpilleras rebeldes: otra forma de arte y lucha popular
LEARN MORE: Amid unrest and rights abuses, Chile protesters say ‘there’s no turning back’
LEARN MORE: Chile’s People Have Had Enough
Come join us! LIMITED opportunity; please RSVP to griesar@pdx.edu and jleake@pdx.edu
COMMITTED VOLUNTEERS
1. Bill Griesar, NW Noggin/PSU/OHSU
2. Jeff Leake, NW Noggin/PSU
3. Nick Burdick Levin, PSU
4. Yaritsa Velasco, PSU FRINQ Science of Creativity/Learning
5. Elizabeth Woodward, PSU
6. Anita Randolph, OHSU
7. Greyson Moore, PSU
8. Sorrel Johnson, PSU
9. Cassandra James, PSU
10. Sydney Duran, PSU
11. Chloe Voshell, PSU
12. Abigayle Moon, PSU FRINQ Science of Creativity/Learning
13. Maria Galvan-Bravo, PSU

FROM CECILIA: The experience of the Colectivo Memorarte “Arpilleras, sites and memory Valparaíso”, was born in 2016 as a collective initiative to recreate local memory around human rights violations that occurred, massively, during the civic-military dictatorship that started in Chile on September 11th, 1973. We express our work through the realization of the art of the arpilleras where we sew parts of the memory of our country with pieces of colored fabrics and threads.Initially, the Colectivo started to work in the space of the Valparaíso Ex-prison Cultural Park, however, during 2017, we moved our operation –weekly- to the PRAIS (Integral Health Care and Repair Program), Valparaíso. From this place we have been able to strengthen our creative performance by affirming our identity as a cultural group that works to recover the memory of those sites that were used by the civic-military dictatorship to violate human rights.As of 2018, we have projected our development around the realization of visits to memory and human rights sites, meetings and talks about memory and also exhibitions of our works in addition to continuing the creation of arpilleras, now even portraying actual events. With this work, we fulfill the purposes of: sharing what has been done, exchanging experiences of action around “popular memory”, and contributing to the imperative of developing a “pedagogy of memory and human rights” in our country. Our commitment is to go on working against oblivion, impunity and injustice in Chile. Founding members: María Alicia Salinas (our teacher and former political prisoner), Silvia Mazzella (former political prisoner), Alicia Olea (former political prisoner), Dana Wordes, Valeria Arancibia, Gabriela Palleras, Marisa Chávez. In the course of the years some members have joined and others, for reasons of work or place of residence, have not been able to participate. Today, our teacher, originally from Santiago, no longer travels to all sessions for health reasons. The actual nine members are: Silvia Mazzella, Alicia Olea, Dana Wordes, Valeria Arancibia, Gabriela Palleras, Nora Torres, Jacqueline van Rysseghem, Marisa Chávez and me, Cecilia Araneda. We have participated in various human rights events, universities, hospitals, cultural centers, openings of memory sites and cultural exhibitions.

Photo by Leandro Vivanco, Valparaíso, Chile, 2019So, we invite you to explore our recent history through these arpilleras where you could imagine the pain and despair as well as the courage and hope of men and women who believed and fought for a better world.
LEARN MORE: INDICE CATALOGO ACTUALIZADO
https://nwnoggin.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/disparo-paco.mp4

Video taken by Augustus in Valparaíso, Chile, 2019
More on the arpillera project (Cecilia Araneda)
Arpillera Project Cecilia Araneda

NWNOGGIN Valentine's Day fundraiser @ Clinton Street Theater
2020-02-14 21:00 - 22:55 | Clinton Street Theater, 2522 SE Clinton Street, Portland, OR, 97202, United States
Join us on Valentine’s Day at the Clinton Street Theater at 9pm for a viewing of the 80’s classic, “Valley Girl” staring Nicholas Cage and Deborah Foreman and help support NW Noggin.
We did it! And raised $150!

The movie is free! but there will be a tip jar collecting donations for NW Noggin.

Thank you Alice & Will!!

Noggins in Grants Pass!
2020-02-19 - 2020-02-21 | North Middle School, 1725 NW Highland Ave, Grants Pass, OR, 97526, United States
WHAT: Noggin outreach in Grants Pass, Oregon!
We did it!
LEARN MORE AT THE LINK!
Can a brain use all of its parts at once?

LEARN EVEN MORE FROM TEACHERS IN GRANTS PASS!
“Tomorrow is Brain Day!”

And we’re already planning for 2021..!

WHERE: North Middle School, 1725 NW Highland Ave, Grants Pass, OR 97526
WHEN: Wednesday, February 19 – Friday, February 21, 2020

We’re returning to southern Oregon!
Huge thanks to North Middle School Art Teacher Michael Endicott for organizing our outreach visit, and both feeding and housing our Noggin volunteers!
LEARN MORE: Post by Art Teacher Michael Endicott…
Gray Matter in Grants Pass!

How can you change your brain?

LEARN EVEN MORE ABOUT NOGGINS ON THE ROAD…
Synaptic Community Connections

COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
1. Bill Griesar, NW Noggin/PSU/OHSU
2. Jeff Leake, NW Noggin/PSU
3. Cam Howard, PSU
4. Angela Hendrix, NW Noggin
5. Michael Deveney, PSU
6. Aaron Eisen, NUNM
7. Lidia Echeverria-Garcia, PSU
8. Jacob Schoen, OHSU/NUNM

Noggin @ PCC Newberg
2020-02-27 16:50 - 18:50 | PCC Newberg, 135 Werth Blvd, Newberg, OR, 97132, United States
WHAT: Talk about color perception with brains and projects at PCC Newberg
We did it!

WHERE: Portland Community College Newberg, Newberg Education Center room 112, 135 Werth Blvd, Newberg, OR 97132

WHEN: Thursday, February 27, 4:50-6:50pm

“Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist’s brain.” – Henri Matisse
Color on the Noggin!

COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
1. Kanani Miyamoto, NW Noggin/PCC
2. Jeff Leake, NW Noggin/PSU
3. Bill Griesar, NW Noggin/PSU/OHSU
4. Jessica Cary, PSU
5. Danny Gray, PSU
6. Kassidy Fitzgerald, PSU
7. William Nasi, PSU
8. Madeline Ogle, PSU
9. Rebekah Obradovich, PSU
10. Beth Woodward, PSU

Noggin @ Hosford Middle School!
2020-03-03 09:00 - 12:30 | Hosford Middle School, 2303 SE 28th Pl, Portland, OR, 97214, United States
WHAT: Noggin at Hosford Middle School (Portland Public Schools)
We did it! Learn more at the link.
Brains examining brains

From Science Teacher Jane VanDam: “Thank you, thank you and thank you to you and all of your volunteers! Our Hosford students (and me!) are so lucky to have had you at our school today!”

KGW did a story!
Getting kids excited about neuroscience

WHERE: Hosford Middle School, 2303 SE 28th Pl, Portland, OR 97214
WHEN: Tuesday, March 3, 9:00am – 12:30; meet at the school office
CONTACTS: Amy Slaughter, Assistant Principal, Hosford Middle School; Jane VanDam, Science teacher; Kevin Marquardt, Science teacher

“Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It’s important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It’s the way in which we ourselves grow and develop.” –Dorothy Height

Noggin volunteers from Portland State University, OHSU and other area campuses will meet with students in Kevin Marquardt and Jane VanDam’s 6th grade classrooms at Hosford, introducing them to neuroscience research and art projects related to understanding the brain…
1st period is 9:15-10:05 – Marquardt’s 1st period and Van Dam’s 1st period
2nd period is 10:09-10:59 – Van Dam’s 2nd period and Wadnizak’s 8th period
3rd period is 11:03 – 11:53 – Van Dam’s 3rd period and Marquardt’s 3rd period
Hosford offers a Mandarin immersion program!
Here are some neuro-related words in Mandarin…

Brain: 脑 (nǎo)
Neuroscience: 神经科学 (Shénjīng kēxué)
https://nwnoggin.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Mandarin-Translation.m4a
Translation provided by Luyao Wang, undergraduate in Psychology at PSU
There are significant benefits to bilingual education in both children and adults, including evidence of changes in the white matter wiring of linked cortical regions essential for executive function (decision making, working memory, attentional control), and a reduced risk of cognitive decline with age…
LEARN MORE: Bilingual Two-Way Immersion Programs Benefit Academic Achievement
LEARN MORE: Language Experience Changes Language and Cognitive Ability
LEARN MORE: The effects of bilingualism on the white matter structure of the brain
LEARN MORE: Latino Network Learning & Lobes
See what we’ve done at Hosford before!
Honest selves @ Hosford

Brains, Art & Inquiry @ Hosford

High energy Hosford: Tumors, music & drugs!

Email Bill (griesar@pdx.edu), Jeff (jleake@pdx.edu) and Aaron (aaeisen@pdx.edu) for more details…

Committed participants
1. Bill Griesar, NW Noggin/PSU/OHSU
2. Nick Gatlin, PSU/FRINQ Science of Creativity & Learning
3. Chloe Voshell, PSU
4. Fatmah Almoumen, PSU/FRINQ Science of Creativity & Learning
5. Kassidy Fitzgerald, PSU
6. Sorrel Johnson, PSU
7. Cassie James, PSU
8. Angela Hendrix, NW Noggin
9. Alejandro Rios, PSU
10. Aaron Eisen, NW Noggin/NUNM
11. Frances Lefebvre, PSU/FRINQ Science of Creativity & Learning
12. Cam Howard, PSU

OHSU/OMSI BRAIN FAIR!
2020-03-07 08:30 - 17:00 | Oregon Museum of Science & Industry, 1945 SE Water Ave, Portland, OR, 97214, United States
WHAT: OHSU/OMSI BRAIN FAIR
We did it!
We found the resources to feed and caffeinate 35 NW Noggin volunteers – who brought the real brains and plenty of art projects to OMSI to enthuse, inform and excite about 300 kids and parents over an entire day of BRAIN FAIR!
LEARN MORE AT THE LINK!
The Brains at Brain Fair

WHERE: Oregon Museum of Science & Industry, 1945 SE Water Ave, Portland, OR 97214
WHEN: Saturday, March 7, 2020, 9:00am – 5:00pm
(set up 8:30 – 9:30am! Event starts @ 10am)
One of the nation’s largest Brain Fairs is this Saturday at OMSI!

Come join Noggin and the PSU Neuroscience Club for an awesome day of learning!

The OHSU Brain Institute promises free basic admission to the museum for our volunteers! And OMSI is not easily affordable for many, with “adult” (age 14 and up!) ticket prices at $15 – and “youth” (age 3 – 13) tickets at $10.50!! Any “special” exhibits cost even more…

NW Noggin will bring the brains to “Brain” Fair, while the Portland Alcohol Research Center (PARC) is providing ALL our terrific volunteers with pizza, snacks and coffee to fuel their noggins!

WE PRE-ORDERED THE COFFEE (thanks Starbucks!) AND PIZZA (thanks Sparky’s!)

THANK YOU PARC for supporting free arts-integrated STEM outreach!

(There may also be more homemade “BRAIN COOKIES” from Tara Leake! – for our outstanding volunteers :))
See what we’ve done in past years!
Bringing BRAINS to Brain Fair 🙂

Putting the brains in Brain Fair!

Pipe Cleaners, Gel Prints, Electrodes & Brains!

COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
1. Bill Griesar, NW Noggin/PSU/OHSU
2. Jeff Leake, NW Noggin/PSU
3. Alisha Steigerwald, PSU
4. Michael Deveney, PSU
5. Bekah Obradovich, PSU
6. Carli Cox, PSU
7. Chloe Voshell, PSU
8. McKenzie Figuracion, PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO
9. Anky Guchait, PSU grad
10. Annabelle Winking, PSU
11. Drew Sinclair, PSU
12. Mikah Brandes, PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO
13. Andrea Rano, PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO
14. Danny Gray, PSU (noon – 5pm)
15. Kassidy Fitzgerald, PSU (noon – 5pm)
16. Ash Marlin, PSU
17. Brittani Southard, PSU
18. Madeline Ogle, PSU
19. Albert Shiue, PSU
20. Nuno Busch, PSU
21. Jade Osilla, PSU/Lines for Life
22. Iris Guttierez, WSUV
23. Beth Woodward, PSU
24. Sydney Duran, PSU (10am – 5pm)
25. Isabella Maranghi, PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO
26. Will Nasi, PSU
27. Arielle Isakharov, OHSU (10am – 2pm)
28. Greyson Moore, PSU
29. Taylor Almond, PSU
30. Zoie Harpole, PSU
31. Lesley Guerra, PSU
32. Aaron Eisen, NUNM
33. Cam Howard, PSU
34. Katie Hashimoto, PSU (9am – noon)
35. Jesus Martinez, PSU (2pm – 5pm)

Noggin + YES! @ Doernbecher **CANCELED!
2020-03-10 12:00 - 13:15 | Doernbecher Childrens Hospital, 700 SW Campus Drive, Portland, OR, 97239, United States
WHAT: Noggin visit with 5th grade students from Mary Woodward Elementary School at OHSU
Canceled due to coronavirus concerns
WHERE: Doernbecher Children’s Hospital, 700 SW Campus Dr, Portland, OR 97239
WHEN: Tuesday, March 10, 2020; 12:00pm – 1:15pm
***MEET IN VEY LOBBY: Directions to Vey Auditorium

Noggin will join the YES! OHSU program to introduce 100+ 5th graders from Mary Woodward Elementary in the Tigard-Tualatin School District to neuroscience research, brains (!) and art!
COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
1. Bill Griesar, NW Noggin/PSU/OHSU
2. Jeff Leake, NW Noggin/PSU
3. Jacob Schoen, NUNM/OHSU
4. Sorrel Johnson, PSU
5. Chloe Voshell, PSU
6. Jade Osilla, PSU/Lines for Life
7. Jess Squires, PSU
8. Beth Woodward, PSU

PSU Neuro Dead Week Daze!
2020-03-12 12:00 - 13:30 | Smith Center, Portland State University, 1825 SW Broadway, Portland, OR, 97201, United States
Happy week 10 oxytocin entourage!

Are you getting stressed out by finals? So ready for the sun to just stay out and not have random rainy days in the middle of the week? Then we have an event for you!

Join us for our annual Dead Week Daze, a get together all about having fun and relieving stress.
There will be free food, music, a raffle, giant jenga, and Smokey the llama and Napoleon the alpaca! That’s right, come pet and get pictures taken with a llama and an alpaca!

If this sounds like a good time (and it is) join us, this Thursday 3/12 in SMSU 327/8/9 from 12-1:30pm!

See you there!

—

Regards,
The Neuroscience Club at PSU

Old Town Talk: Everything is Fine **CANCELLED (COVID)
2020-03-12 18:00 | Floyd’s Old Town Coffee, 118 NW Couch St, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
WHAT: OLD TOWN TALKS – Everything is Fine: The Science of Stress and Making Art on Those Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Days; with Mollie Marr, MD/PhD candidate in Behavioral Neuroscience at OHSU & artist Kevin Smith
WHERE: Floyd’s Old Town Coffee (& Brews!), 118 NW Couch St, Portland, OR 97209
WHEN: CANCELLED; FREE, all ages!

SOURCE: This Is Fine creator explains the timelessness of his meme
Learn about Mollie’s new research into maternal psychological stress and the intergenerational transmission of childhood stress, and Kevin’s experiences with art making in times of stress as a mindfulness tool. What does neuroscience tell us about the impact of maternal stress? Explore brains, stress, development and mindfulness, ask questions – and make art!

LEARN MORE: Kevin Smith Instagram

LEARN MORE ABOUT NOGGIN OLD TOWN TALKS
OLD TOWN TALKS: Free Art & Science

Noggin @ Franklin High! **CANCELED
2020-04-07 08:00 - 11:30 | Franklin High School, 5405 SE Woodward St, Portland, OR, 97206, United States
WHAT: Visit to Karen Polis’s Psychology classroom at Franklin High School
**CANCELED: All Oregon schools CLOSED due to coronavirus concerns
LEARN MORE: Governor Kate Brown Extends Statewide School Closure Until April 28
WHERE: Franklin High School, 5405 SE Woodward St, Portland, OR 97206
WHEN: Tuesday, April 7, 8:00 – 11:30am

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 at Franklin, in Portland Public Schools, what questions they have, and what they already know about the brain and behavior.
See what we did at Franklin in the past!
Autonomic Function @ Franklin

Frequencies @ Franklin: Your brain on sax!

Committed participants
1. Bill Griesar, NW Noggin/PSU/OHSU
2. Jeff Leake, NW Noggin/PSU
3. Kassidy Fitzgerald, PSU

OLD TOWN TALKS: Details coming soon! **POSTPONED
2020-04-09 18:00 - 20:00 | Floyd’s Old Town Coffee, 118 NW Couch St, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
WHAT: New Collaborative Art/Science Presentation @ Floyd’s
WHERE: Floyd’s Old Town Coffee, 118 NW Couch St, Portland, OR 97209
WHEN: Thursday, April 9, 6:00 – 8:00pm
More details coming soon..!

Noggin @ He La High! **CANCELED
2020-04-14 09:00 - 14:00 | He La High School, 9105 NE 9th St, Vancouver, WA, 98664, United States
WHAT: NW Noggin visit to HeLa High
**CANCELED: All Oregon schools CLOSED due to coronavirus concerns
LEARN MORE: Governor Kate Brown Extends Statewide School Closure Until April 28
WHERE: Henrietta Lacks High School, 9105 NE 9th St., Vancouver, WA, 98664
WHEN: Tuesday, April 14, 2018, 9:00am – 2:00pm
Contact: Susie Ridgeway, Human Anatomy and Physiology teacher, HeLa High
Noggin volunteers from Portland State University, OHSU and other area campuses will meet with about 400 students at Henrietta Lacks High School, to discuss neuroscience research and make art related to understanding our brains!
Susie is offering coffee and pizza to fuel our Noggin noggins!
See what’ve done at HeLa in the past…
“PLEASE COME BACK!”

Hallucinations @ HeLa High

Hella Bright at HeLa

Hippocampal hordes at HeLa High

Brains for 437 @ HeLa High!

COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
1. Bill Griesar, NW Noggin/PSU/OHSU
2. Jeff Leake, NW Noggin/PSU
3. Ruth Marigomen, WSUV
4. Cameran Nicholas, PSU
5. Jessica Squires, PSU
6. Jade Osilla, PSU/Lines for Life

SfN Oregon/SWWA Chapter Meeting **CANCELED
2020-04-17 09:00 - 20:00 | McMenamin’s Edgefield, 2126 S.W. Halsey St., Troutdale, OR, 97060, United States
WHAT: Society for Neuroscience Oregon/SW Washington Chapter Meeting
Canceled due to coronavirus concerns
WHERE: McMenamin’s Edgefield, 2126 SW Halsey St, Troutdale, OR 97060
WHEN: Friday, April 17 (event goes through Saturday, April 18)

Society for Neuroscience Oregon/SW Washington Chapter
The Oregon/Southwest Washington Chapter is the local group affiliated with the Society for Neuroscience. Our goal is to be a networking resource for neuroscience students, postdoctoral scholars and faculty throughout the region. Our annual meeting in the spring brings together scientists to share projects, network with elected officials and government entities, and engage with colleagues from across the state.
April 17-18, 2020
McMenamin’s Edgefield Winery and Hotel
2126 SW Halsey Street, Troutdale, OR
The deadline to register and to submit abstracts is April 10, 2020. A block of rooms is held under “OHSU Brain Institute” at McMenamin’s Edgefield. Please call the front desk (503) 669-8610 to make your reservation. Rooms will be released on March 2.
Mini-symposium of the Gut Microbiome-Nervous System Axis
Keynote: The brain-gut microbiome axis: challenges in translation
Emeran Mayer, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Medicine, Physiology and Psychiatry, UCLA Health
The gut-brain axis: the example of multiple sclerosis
Sergio Baranzini, Ph.D., Professor of Neurology, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences
Emerging roles of gut microbiome in autism
Maude David, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Microbiology, Oregon State University
Microbial modulation of zebrafish behavior and brain development
Judith Eisen, Ph.D., Professor of Biology, University of Oregon
Environmental challenges, the gut microbiome, and behavioral and cognitive measures in mouse models
Jacob Raber, Ph.D., Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience, OHSU
Insights into the enteric nervous system: perspectives from a gut stem cell biologist
Annie Zemper, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biology, University of Oregon

NW NOGGIN ABSTRACT
NW Noggin: Axons & Arpilleras – Addressing trauma and supporting community across disciplines and national boundaries
GRIESAR, W.S.* ** *** ****, LEAKE, J.* ** ***
No happiness or pain, no more forgetting”
― Gabriela Mistral
Science needs investment and diverse perspectives. Integrating arts in STEM (STEAM) encourages more people to get involved.
Nonprofit NW Noggin (nwnoggin.org) organizes undergraduates and graduates to collaborate, build community networks and inspire people about neuroscience and art. Volunteers benefit from work across disciplines and institutions, serve as “near peer” role models, gain skill explaining research, and think creatively about careers. We’ve met over 40,000 academic priority K-12 students, homeless youth, incarcerated youth and members of the public since 2012!

Extreme inequality defines the United States, with devastating brain, health and social consequences, as more people struggle to access food, water, education, public transit, healthcare and housing. Concentrated wealth isolates those with extravagant resources from the broader community. Isolation is worsened by degrading rhetoric from political leaders and pundits who protect privileges, often by dehumanizing others.
Inequality can also lead to the violation of human rights, and violence.

Valparaíso, Chile, home to both a long history of neuroscience research and astonishing art traditions, is currently targeted by a repressive and authoritarian government, whose leader, billionaire Sebastian Piñera, has declared “war” (guerra) on those protesting injustice.
Noggin partnered with Chilean artist/educator Cecilia Araneda to teach how the art of “arpilleras,” the sewing of embroidery and patchwork to depict aspects of life, has helped many express traumatic experiences and contribute to the memory of significant national violations of human rights.

We participated in a public radio interview and displayed arpilleras and human brains at Street 14 Café during an “Art Walk” in Astoria, Oregon, and discussed neuroscience research on stress, trauma, memory, dehumanized perception, resilience and recovery.

We then presented and crafted our own arpilleras at p:ear, a critical community center for support of Portland Oregon youth who lack access to safe, stable housing, while answering questions about behavior and the brain. NW Noggin is p:ear’s Community Partner awardee in 2020.

Building excitement and awareness of discoveries, educational options and careers through arts-integrated outreach across institutional, international and generational lines trains new scientists to collaborate, engages more communities, 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; **** Department of Behavioral Neuroscience, OHSU
Sewing Memories, & Brains

PSU Neuro Club: Showcase Symposium ONLINE
2020-04-30 18:30 - 20:00

Brains to Benson! **POSTPONED
2020-05-07 08:30 - 12:00 | Benson High School, 546 NE 12th Ave, Portland, OR, 97232, United States
WHAT: Noggin visit with Health Sciences students at Benson High School
**POSTPONED due to COVID-19; new date to come!
WHERE: Benson High School, 546 NE 12th Ave, Portland, OR 97232 (Band Room)
WHEN: Thursday, May 7, 8:30am – noon
Contact: Lesley Keith, Health Sciences CTE Instructor, Benson High School

Benson is a 100+ year old polytechnic high school in Portland Public Schools. From their website: “Within an environment that fosters diversity, Benson’s mission is to integrate hands-on career technical education and core academics today for the innovations of tomorrow.”
From PPS:“Benson Polytechnic High School is Portland, Oregon’s premier four-year career-technical education focus high school, building on a history that spans nearly 100 years. Benson Polytechnic High School offers the academic rigor and the practical training that prepares students for college and the highly skilled, highly paid 21st-century work force.”
Our volunteers will answer questions, discuss neuroscience research and make brain-related art with about 60 students in the Health Sciences track.

Benson High School students printed our t-shirts for 2016 outreach in Washington DC!
LEARN MORE: Brains in DC: Inspired Teaching at Turner and ITS
Come join us! Please RSVP to griesar@pdx.edu, jleake@pdx.edu, aaeisen@pdx.edu 🙂
COMMITTED VOLUNTEERS
1. Bill Griesar, NW Noggin/PSU/OHSU
2. Jeff Leake, NW Noggin/PSU
3. Mark Rutledge-Gorman, OHSU Portland Alcohol Research Center (PARC)
4. Kass Fitzgerald, PSU

Noggin @ Boys & Girls! **POSTPONED**
2020-05-13 15:30 - 18:00 | Blazers Boys & Girls Club, 5250 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland, OR, 97211, United States
WHAT: Noggin visit with Blazers Boys & Girls Club
**POSTPONED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS**
WHERE: Blazers Boys & Girls Club, 5250 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland, OR 97211
WHEN: Wednesday, May 13, 4:00pm – 6:00pm (arrive 3:30pm for set up :))
CONTACT: Julia Dancis, M.S, Doctoral Candidate, Applied Developmental & Community Psychology, Portland State University

We’re excited to visit Blazers Boys & Girls! “Boys & Girls Clubs are safe, positive places for kids to enjoy fun and engaging programs at an affordable price. Clubs provide enrichment programs to youth while empowering them with a sense of belonging and security.”
LEARN MORE: Boys and Girls Clubs of Portland Metropolitan Area
3:30 -4pm: set up (including brain map project)
4-4:45 pm: 1st – 6th graders
5-5:45 pm: 7th – 12th graders

From Julia: “Before NW Noggins visits, the kids will write their questions about the brain on sticky notes. The activities will begin by answering those questions and learning from kids what they already know about the brain. Next, they will have the opportunity to directly interact with human and non-human animal brains. The youth will then make neurons out of pipe cleaners, whereas the teens will make gel prints. Both may contribute to the big brain map on the floor…”
LEARN MORE: Making a Pipe Cleaner Neuron
LEARN MORE: Neuron Gelatin Prints
LEARN MORE: Brain Map Project
Come join us! Please RSVP to griesar@pdx.edu, jleake@pdx.edu, aaeisen@pdx.edu 🙂
COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
1. Bill Griesar, NW Noggin/PSU/OHSU
2. Jeff Leake, NW Noggin/PSU
3. Kass Fitzgerald, PSU

Noggin ONLINE @ PPS Creative Science!
2020-05-14 10:00 - 10:45
WHAT: Noggin Online with 6th – 8th graders in Portland Public Schools!
We did it! Learn more at the link.
Pandemic connections

WHERE: Google Hangout for Creative Science, Portland Public Schools
WHEN: Thursday, May 14 (& 21, 28), 10:00am – 10:45am
CONTACT: Brandan McClain, 6-8th grade Language Arts/Social Studies

Get your questions ready! NW Noggin will meet with curious 6th, 7th and 8th graders at Creative Science School, in Portland Public Schools, on three consecutive Thursdays.

We’ll have brains (onscreen), art project ideas for home, and undergraduates and graduate students studying neuroscience!

We’ll also make brain cells (both neurons and glia) using any materials we have at hand 🙂

The Portland Alcohol Research Center (PARC) @ OHSU is providing art supplies, and the PDX 3D printing Lab printed full-size human brains to offer teachers in Portland Public Schools!

LEARN MORE: How to 3D Print a Brain
LEARN MORE: NW Noggin & PDX3DP Lab: 3D Printing Brain Models for Students in Oregon

Check out these questions from PPS students!
How does the brain react to trauma?
What in our brain makes us bored?
How does our brain know what’s bad for us besides using common sense?
What happens when the fusiform gyrus is damaged?
Is synaesthesia linked to a certain part of the brain?
Where in the brain are memories kept?
How does the brain remember taste? Like when you eat something, how does your brain remember which taste it is?
How do we remember sound?
Why do we sleep and dream?
How does the brain react to addictions?
How much memory does your brain have? “I’ll forget where my phone is, but then I’ll remember some random crap from when I was 6, which isn’t fair because I don’t care about when I was 6.”
Why do some people agree on the same things but disagree on other things?
Is it possible that your brain may interpret colors differently than other people?
What are dreams and why to we have them?
Why are there so many different ways that people cope?
How come one person could like one type of something and not the other type of it?
At what age are our brains fully developed?
Do human brains work like animal brains?
Is tv really bad for your brain? If so, why?
Why do we store lots of memories in our brains?
Why do people like certain music, and what does it say about their personality?
How do dreams work and why are there weird dreams and dreams that make zero sense?

COMMITTED VOLUNTEERS
1. Bill Griesar, NW Noggin, PSU, OHSU
2. Jeff Leake, NW Noggin, PSU
3. Lidia Echeverria-Garcia
4. Kassidy Fitzgerald, PSU
5. Sydney Duran, PSU
6. Heather Hamilton, OHSU/NIH BUILD EXITO
7. Isabella Maranghi, PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO
8. Arielle Isakharov, OHSU
9. Joey Seuferling, NW Noggin
10. Annabelle Winking, PSU
11. Michael Deveney, PSU
12. Aaron Eisen, NUNM
We’ve visited Creative Science LIVE in the past. Learn more at the links…
“You get me!” @ Creative Science

Creativity and Science

NW Noggin @ North Clackamas Brain Fair! **CANCELED**
2020-05-16 10:00 - 14:00 | Milwaukie Elks Lodge, 13121 SE McLouglin Blvd, Milwaukie, OR, 97222, United States
WHAT: NW Noggin @ North Clackamas Brain Safety Fair!
**CANCELED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS**
WHERE: Milwaukie Elks Lodge, 13121 SE McLouglin Blvd, Milwaukie, OR 97222
WHEN: Saturday, May 16th, 10:00am – 2:00pm
CONTACT: Laura Kozell, OHSU

How is your brain changing? How can you protect your brain? Come join us for a fun day of examining brains and making art!
This is a free community event
From the organizers: “Demonstrations about sensory systems, what the brain does, developmental biology, species differences in brain structure and function, effects of disease, damage or drugs on the brain. Tables for organizations that volunteer in the community teaching about brains and science, brain arts and crafts.”
Come join us! Please RSVP to griesar@pdx.edu, jleake@pdx.edu and aaeisen@pdx.edu.
COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
1. Denesa Lockwood, OHSU
2. Kass Fitzgerald, PSU

Noggin ONLINE @ PPS Creative Science!
2020-05-21 09:30 - 10:45
WHAT: Noggin Online with 6th – 8th graders in Portland Public Schools!
We did it!! GREAT QUESTIONS!

WHERE: Google Hangout for Creative Science, Portland Public Schools
WHEN: Thursday, May 21 (& 14, 28), 9:45am – 10:45am; Meet first @ 9:30am
CONTACT: Brandan McClain, 6-8th grade Language Arts/Social Studies; Matt Feitelberg, Mid-Level Humanities Teacher, Creative Science School

Get your questions ready! NW Noggin plans to meet again with curious 6th, 7th and 8th graders at Creative Science School, in Portland Public Schools. We’ll have more real brains (onscreen), art project ideas for home, and undergraduates and graduate students studying neuroscience!

The Portland Alcohol Research Center (PARC) @ OHSU is providing art supplies, and the PDX 3D printing Lab printed full-size human brains to offer teachers in Portland Public Schools!

LEARN MORE: How to 3D Print a Brain
Student Questions
1. Does the brain store long-term and short-term memories in different parts of the brain? -Jack
2. Why do we feel stuff? -Allen
3. The way humans act is so different from the ways other animals act. What actually makes our brains different? -Lillian
4. How does your amygdala actually TELL you to fight or flee? What is it actually doing? -Lucy
5. How do we think?
6. Are there differences in the way our brains behave and learn in person vs online? -Matt

LEARN MORE: Face-to-face or face-to-screen? Undergraduates’ opinions and test performance in classroom vs. online learning

See what we did last week!
Pandemic connections

Please RSVP to griesar@pdx.edu and jleake@pdx.edu!

COMMITTED VOLUNTEERS
1. Bill Griesar, NW Noggin, PSU, OHSU
2. Jeff Leake, NW Noggin, PSU
3. Danny Gray, PSU
4. Kassidy Fitzgerald, PSU
5. Sydney Duran, PSU
6. Joey Seuferling, NW Noggin
7. Annabelle Winking, PSU
8. Andrea Rano, PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO
9. Aaron Eisen, NUNM
10. Heather Hamilton, OHSU
11. Harper Thomas, PSU
12. Arielle Isakharov, OHSU

We’ve visited Creative Science LIVE in the past. Learn more at the links…
“You get me!” @ Creative Science

Creativity and Science

NW Noggin + Council for the Homeless **POSTPONED!
2020-05-21 17:30 - 19:00 | Bridgeview Resource Center, 505 Omaha Way, Vancouver, OR, 98661, United States
WHAT: NW Noggin @ Council for the Homeless Best Practices event
**POSTPONED due to COVID-19. Stay tuned for new developments…
WHERE: Bridgeview Resource Center, 505 Omaha Way, Vancouver, WA 98661
WHEN: Thursday, May 21, 5:30 – 7:00pm
Council for the Homeless is a non-profit organization in Clark County, Washington whose mission is to provide community leadership, compelling advocacy, and practical solutions to prevent and end homelessness.

LEARN MORE: Council for the Homeless
We are excited to join organizer Sarah Fletcher in discussing trauma, including who it impacts and how it affects our brains. Learn more about trauma, homelessness and resilience at the link.

LEARN MORE: Noggin @ P:ear
Come join us! Please RSVP to griesar@pdx.edu, jleake@pdx.edu and aaeisen@pdx.edu.
COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
1. Bill Griesar, NW Noggin/PSU/OHSU
2. Jeff Leake, NW Noggin/PSU

Noggin @ OHSU Brain Awareness lecture: Leigh Hochberg, M.D., Ph.D. **CANCELED
2020-05-27 17:30 - 21:00 | Newmark Theater, Portland, OR
Machines and the Mind: Advances in brain-computer interface

Leigh Hochberg, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Center for Neurotechnology and Neurorecovery
Massachusetts General Hospital
Wednesday, May 27, 2020
All Brain Awareness Lectures take place at:
The Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, Portland
and begin at 7:00 p.m.
PLEASE NOTE: NW Noggin volunteers expected for set up at 5:30pm!

The latest advancements in brain-computer interface systems are shared by Dr. Leigh Hochberg, director of the Center for Neurotechnology and Neurorecovery at Massachusetts General Hospital, Professor of Engineering at Brown University, and Director of the Department of Veterans Affairs RR&D Center for Neurorestoration and Neurotechnology. Dr. Hochberg’s pioneering BrainGate clinical trials demonstrate how these amazing technologies could provide communication and mobility for people with paralysis. With these ground-breaking tools, Dr. Hochberg presents a path to unlocking minds that have been, up until now, trapped by their condition.

Thanks to the OHSU Brain Institute, NW Noggin has 12 complimentary tickets to this event! We’ll staff a table loaded with brains and art before and after the show.
Please RSVP to griesar@pdx.edu, jleake@pdx.edu and aaeisen@pdx.edu
COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
1. Bill Griesar, NW Noggin/PSU/OHSU
2. Jeff Leake, NW Noggin/PSU
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