Astoria, OR! During Stout Month @ the Fort George 🍻

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… Here is an overview of the planning and session ideas for all four upcoming visits. We'll…

Art, Pain, & Cannabinoids: Results from Research Bill Griesar, Ph.D. , Jeff Leake, M.F.A. , Ram Kandasamy How and where do cannabinoids, chemicals found in marijuana, act in the brain, and what are the effects on behavior? How have artists, approached (and sometimes used) these drugs to develop works that compel,…

FINALLY! (The MULTIPLE SNOWPOCALYPSES are hopefully over :) Noggins @ HeLa High! Thursday, February 16 @ 8:30 am - 12:00 pm Noggin volunteers from Portland State University, Washington State University Vancouver, and OHSU will meet with about 400 students at Henrietta Lacks High School, introducing them to neuroscience research and art projects related to understanding the brain… EXPLORE MORE:  Hippocampal…

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… This week we’re focusing on "all things neuron” - and making pipe cleaner brain cells of…

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… This week we’re introducing autonomic systems (sympathetic/parasympathetic/enteric) and discussing how we can listen to and use…

WHAT:  Noggin volunteers will visit the Gardner School of Arts and Sciences, literally just down the road from WSU Vancouver... WHEN:  Thursday, March 2, 9:00am - 11:00am WHERE:  Gardner School of Arts and Sciences, 16413 NE 50th Ave, Vancouver, WA 98686 Confirmed participants... 1. Sulema Rodriguez, PSU 2. Nick Dunn, WSU 3.…

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… 3/7 SESSION 4 – NETWORKS AND SCREEN PRINTINGOur last visit!  We'll have brains and we'll be…

UPDATE: See what we did at Byrom Elementary! Byrom Brains! WHAT:  Brain/art outreach at Byrom Elementary with three 4th grade classrooms, totalling about 90 kids! WHEN:  Thursday, March 9, 8:00 - 11:00am (it's apparently best to show up at Byrom Elementary between 8:15am - 8:30am to avoid parent drop off and bus traffic…

Read our interview with the Dana Foundation about Brain Awareness, and see what we're up to the week! NW Noggin: Interview with the Dana Foundation!